Sunwar the Dead

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Sunwar the dead
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Studio album by
Released2004
RecordedStudio des Moines, The Fall
Genre Neoclassical
Length59:04
Label Holy Records, Prophecy Productions
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Winds Devouring Men
(2003)
Sunwar the dead
(2004)
A World in Their Screams
(2007)
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Sunwar the Dead is an album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the second album in the Winds Cycle.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Chaomphalos" — 4:24
  2. "Ardour" — 5:10
  3. "Sunwar the Dead" — 4:31
  4. "Ares in Their Eyes" — 6:02
  5. "The Hemlock Sea" — 5:40
  6. "La terre n'aime pas le sang" — 5:00
  7. "A Song of Ashes" — 6:34
  8. "Laceration" — 5:04
  9. "Poliorketika" — 4:32
  10. "Blood and Grey Skies Entwined" — 6:00
  11. "Threnos" — 6:00

Musicians

Vocals

Strings

Violins

  • First violins: Ismaël Guy, Inga Larusdottir, Elsa Saulnier
  • Second violins: Sylvain Daumard, Hélène Hector, Sébastien Thaumon
  • Third violins: Émilie Dunand, Étienne Philibert, Isabelle Robel

Violas

  • First violas: Shinji Chihara, David Choreman, Mathieu Hilbert
  • Second violas: Sandra Cardon, Judith Thomas, Emma Urbanek
  • Third violas: Julie Corda, Alexandre Grimaud, Anne Tigier

Cellos

  • First cellos: Vincent Catulescu, Catherine Fiolka
  • Second cellos: Anne Fournier, Benjamin Rabenau
  • Third cellos: Christian Dourinat, Éléonore Toinon

Basses

  • Basses: Raymond Lebars, Yves Levignon, Arnaud Pioncet

Winds

Percussion

All other instruments (flutes, prepared piano, spinet and other keyboards, santur, percussion) and vocals, sound-design and programming by Iskandar Hasnawi, Sébastien Roland and Renaud Tschirner.

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