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Elend (band)
Elend is 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. Stylistic overview Early Elend albums utilized samplers and synthesizers to create a dense and horrifying orchestral sound. In their last three albums for the ''Winds Cycle'', Elend's sound was broadened; they did now rely almost entirely on acoustic instruments and chamber orchestras instead of synthesizers, giving them a more full and natural sound. They did also include electronic and industrial elements in some of their pieces. Elend's sound tended toward the aggressive, containing harsh dissonance, screaming and growled vocals in a manner associated with certain types of contemporary classical music. Vocalists, spoken-word passages and occasional rock-like song structures lend the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and the Cure. The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from post-punk. Gothic rock stood out due to its darker sound, with the use of primarily minor or bass chords, reverb, dark arrangements, or dramatic and melancholic melodies, having inspirations in gothic literature allied with themes such as sadness, nihilism, dark romanticism, tragedy, melancholy and morbidity. These themes are often approached poetically. The sensibilities of the genre led the lyrics to represent the evil of the century and the romantic idealization of death and the supernatural imagination. Gothic rock then gave rise to a broader goth subculture that included clubs, fashion and publications in the 1980s, 1990s, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunwar The Dead
''Sunwar the Dead'' is an album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the second album in the ''Winds Cycle''. Track listing #"Chaomphalos" — 4:24 #"Ardour" — 5:10 #"Sunwar the Dead" — 4:31 #"Ares in Their Eyes" — 6:02 #"The Hemlock Sea" — 5:40 #"La terre n'aime pas le sang" — 5:00 #"A Song of Ashes" — 6:34 #"Laceration" — 5:04 #"Poliorketika" — 4:32 #"Blood and Grey Skies Entwined" — 6:00 #"Threnos" — 6:00 Musicians Vocals *Solo soprano: Esteri Rémond *Female choir: Camille Balarie, Louise Legendre, Julia Michaelis, Chloé Nadeau, Esteri Rémond, Séverine Ronsard, Anna Maria Sarasto, Karine Sylvain Strings *Solo violin, first violin, solo viola, conductor: David Kempf 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 vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prophecy Productions
Prophecy Productions is an international record label, founded in Germany by Martin Koller in 1996. It proclaims promoting "transcendental ..captivating music".Prophecy Productions homepage Retrieved 8 December 2020. Its artists perform genres like dark rock, , and . History Since 1993, Martin Koller used the moniker Prophecy for his small, self-operated mail-order business. According to him, the actual birth of Prophecy Productions as a label was the release of the album ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winds Devouring Men
''Winds Devouring Men'' is the fifth album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the first album in the ''Winds Cycle'' trilogy. The special edition was released in a digipak with a bonus track called "Silent Slumber: A God That Breeds Pestilence". This album is notable as a progression from earlier Elend work in that it does not rely on synthesizers and sequencing to achieve an orchestral sound — though there are still computerized effects, the majority of the music is played on acoustic instruments by chamber musicians. Track listing #"The Poisonous Eye" — 6:55 #"Worn Out With Dreams" — 5:43 #"Charis" — 5:58 #"Under War-Broken Trees" — 5:36 #"Away from Barren Stars" — 7:28 #"Winds Devouring Men" — 4:38 #"Vision Is All That Matters" — 5:59 #"The Newborn Sailor" — 5:45 #"The Plain Masks of Daylight" — 5:54 #"A Staggering Moon" — 6:10 #"Silent Slumber: A God that Breeds Pestilence" — 5:18* ''* Bonus track on special edition.'' Musicians *Klaus Amann: trumpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music For Nations
Music For Nations (MFN) is a British independent record label focusing mainly on rock and metal. It was a subsidiary of the larger label distributor Zomba Records, which was a division of BMG and later Sony Music Entertainment. Launched in 1983 by Martin Hooker, Music For Nations established itself as a European leader in the rock and metal world, with early signings like Tank, Exciter, Metallica (who had three gold albums while on MFN), Slayer and Megadeth paving the way. As MFN grew, the company expanded its operation to include not just licensed acts from the United States, but its own signings. It released albums by artists including Paradise Lost, Opeth, Anathema, Cradle of Filth, Testament and countless other metal bands. As well as the traditional metal bands MFN went on to sign up and coming UK bands such as Tigertailz who had a top 40 album while signed to Music For Nations. In 2004, the label closed down. The company's catalogue — which had also previousl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Umbersun
''The Umbersun'' is the fourth album by neoclassical band Elend Elend may refer to: * Elend, Saxony-Anhalt Elend is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies in the Bode valley in the High Harz in central Germany, at a height of . This part of the .... It is the third and final album in the ''Officium Tenebrarum'' trilogy. Track listing #"Du Tréfonds des Ténèbres" – 10:44 #"Melpomene" – 10:26 #"Moon of Amber" – 6:12 #"Apocalypse" – 9:14 #"Umbra" – 8:43 #"The Umbersun" – 5:46 #"In the Embrasure of Heaven" – 5:53 #"The Wake of the Angel" – 4:46 #"Au Tréfonds des Ténèbres" – 5:04 Musicians Sopranos Tricia Bentley, Hilary Brennan, Rachael Clegg, Bridget Corderoy, Carolynne Cox, Sally Donegani, Alison Eden, Karen Filsell, Claire Hills, Rachel King, Felice Kuin, Wendy Norman, Kathy Willis, Olivia Maffett Altos Debbie Bright, Kathryn Cook, Denise Fabb, Victoria Kendall, Katy Meiklejohn, Yvette M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Ténèbres Du Dehors
''Les Ténèbres du Dehors'' is an album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the second in the ''Officium Tenebrarum'' trilogy. The album was remastered and re-released in April 2001 with a bonus track called ''Birds of Dawn'' (originally on a Holy Records Holy Records is a French metal label run by Misanthrope frontman Phillipe De L'Argilière. Aside from Misanthrope itself, the label has not signed many French bands, but also corresponds with several Greek bands. Current and former artists Source ... sampler) with a red-tinted cover, instead of the original blue. Track listing #"Nocturne" — (4:51) #"Ethereal Journeys" — (14:29) #"The Luciferian Revolution" — (10:57) #"Eden (The Angel in the Garden)" — (4:17) #"The Silence of Light" — (8:05) #"Antienne" — (6:45) #"Dancing under the Closed Eyes of Paradise" — (9:36) #"Birds of Dawn" — (12:10)* #"Les Ténèbres du Dehors" — (4:23) * Bonus track on 2001 re-release Musicians All instruments and vocals perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leçons De Ténèbres (album)
''Leçons de Ténèbres'' is the debut album of the neoclassical band Elend, released in 1994. It was the first in the ''Officium Tenebrarum'' trilogy. The lyrics to four songs (''Chanting'', ''Into Bottomless Perdition'', ''Lucifer'' and ''The Emperor'') are texts adapted from John Milton's ''Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse (poetry), verse. A second edition fo ...''. Track listing #"Leçon de Ténèbres" — (3:31) #"Chanting" — (6:22) #"Into Bottomless Perdition" — (7:07) #"Deploration" — (5:41) #"Infernal Beauty" — (5:13) #"Lucifer" — (10:05) #"Eclipse" — (8:10) #"The Reign of Chaos and Old Night" — (5:00) #"The Emperor" — (5:29) Musicians All instruments and vocals performed by Iskandar Hasnawi, Eve Gabrielle Siskind and Renaud Tschirner. References 1994 debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word '' sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano" '' |
Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular use. The violin typically has four strings (music), strings (some can have five-string violin, five), usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow (music), bow across its strings. It can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and, in specialized cases, by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical music, Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments. Violins are also important in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keyboard (computing)
A computer keyboard is a peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches. Replacing early punched cards and paper tape technology, interaction via teleprinter-style keyboards have been the main input method for computers since the 1970s, supplemented by the computer mouse since the 1980s. Keyboard keys (buttons) typically have a set of characters engraved or printed on them, and each press of a key typically corresponds to a single written symbol. However, producing some symbols may require pressing and holding several keys simultaneously or in sequence. While most keys produce characters (letters, numbers or symbols), other keys (such as the escape key) can prompt the computer to execute system commands. In a modern computer, the interpretation of key presses is generally left to the software: the information sent to the computer, the scan code, tells it only wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
