La Chambre D'Echo - Where the dead Birds sing

Infobox Album | Name = "La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing
Type = studio
Artist = Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows


Released = 2004
Recorded =
Genre = Darkwave
Length = 71:58
Label = Apocalyptic Vision
Producer = Anna-Varney, John A. Rivers
Reviews =
Last album = "Es reiten die Toten so schnell"
(2003)
This album = "La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing"
(2004)
Next album = "Flowers in Formaldehyde"
(2004)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Vinyl cover
Type = studio


Lower caption =

"La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing" is the title of Darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows' ninth album. It was released in 2004. "La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing" saw a very prevalent use of synthesizers, harking not only back to her first album, ""...Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue, doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf; in einer Vision des Untergangs..."", but also to more modern music ("Imhotep" being the most fast-forward-sounding, reminiscent of a car commercial.) It is also the first album to be produced by anyone other than Anna-Varney, with former Dead Can Dance producer John A. Rivers taking a co-production role (Rivers is also responsible for remastering every one of the albums that were re-released in 2004.)

The packaging for "La Chambre D'Echo" is extensive: the standard edition comes inside a 128-page, A4-sized book of lyrics and photography by Joachim Luetke from inside and around Der Narrenturm, an old Austrian hospital and psychiatric ward that has become a museum of diseases, mutations and abnormalities of the human body. "La Chambre D'Echo" also comes in a boxed edition of 2000 signed and numbered copies, containing the above, bookmarks, postcards, a translations book and a pamphlet for Der Narrenturm. Oddly enough, the vinyl edition (limited to 666 copies) features an image from the previous photo-session "" on its cover. The vinyl edition features its own abridged version of the book as well as a poster.

Track listing

# "The Encoded Cloister" – 4:44
# "Backbone Practise" – 6:00
# "Idleness & Consequence" – 5:08
# "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" – 3:31
# "Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)" – 4:48
# "Hearse-shaped Basins of darkest Matter" – 3:57
# "Interlude - The Quiet Earth" – 8:34
# "We have a Dog to exercise" – 5:50
# "The Lion's Promise" – 4:52
# "Leeches & Deception" – 9:11
# "The Skeletal Garden" – 4:05
# "Feed the Birds" – 0:21
# "Consolatrix has left the Building" – 4:34
# "Day of the Dead" – 6:23