Weeping Nights

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Weeping Nights
Elend-WeepingNights.jpg
Studio album by
Released1997
RecordedRMS Studios
Genre Neoclassical
Length65:23
Label Holy Records
Elend chronology
Les Ténèbres du Dehors
(1996)
Weeping Nights
(1997)
The Umbersun
(1998)
Professional ratings
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Weeping Nights is the third album by neoclassical band Elend. Although released before The Umbersun , it is not a part of the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy. The album contains three original songs (the first track being of their own and the following two being adaptations of pieces by Henry Purcell), and six remixes of songs from their previous album, Les Ténèbres du Dehors . The remixed tracks are virtually exactly the same as on Les Ténèbres du Dehors, only all male vocals have been removed. The only two tracks from the previous album which do not appear here are "The Silence of Light" (track 5) and "Antienne" (track 6), presumably because they had no male vocals to begin with and because of limited space on the CD.

Elend was a dark ambient/neoclassical band formed in France in 1993 by composers and multi-instrumentalists Iskandar Hasnawi of France and Renaud Tschirner of Austria. The band's name is German for "misery." Their music can be described as a combination of contemporary classical music and gothic.

<i>The Umbersun</i> album

The Umbersun is the fourth album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the third and final album in the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy.

Henry Purcell English composer

Henry Purcell was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no later native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Weeping Night"7:08
2."O Solitude"6:00
3."The Embrace"3:51
4."Nocturne"4:45
5."Ethereal Journeys"14:28
6."The Luciferian Revolution"10:57
7."Eden (The Angel in the Garden)"3:47
8."Dancing under the Closed Eyes of Paradise"9:35
9."Les Ténèbres du Dehors"4:22
Total length:65:23

Musicians

All instruments and vocals performed by Nathalie Barbary, Iskandar Hasnawi and Renaud Tschirner.

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References

  1. Azevedo, Pedro (1997-10-16). "Elend - Weeping Nights Review". Chronicles of Chaos . Retrieved 2012-09-12.