It is composed of more than one hundred brothers, from Protestant and Catholic traditions, who originate from about thirty countries across the world.

Guidelines for the community's life are contained in The Rule of Taizé[1] written by Brother Roger and first published in French in 1954.

The music of Taizé emphasizes simple phrases, usually lines from Psalms, other pieces of Scripture, or from the liturgy, both Western and Eastern Orthodox, repeated many times and sometimes also sung in canon.

Most of the chants were recorded in the Church of Reconciliation in Taizé, by a few instrumentalists and a choir composed of young people from different countries who spent a week in the Community.

[7] The chants on the album are sung in seven different languages: Latin, French, English, Italian, German, Church Slavonic and Spanish.