Sunwar the Dead

Infobox Album
Name =
Type = Album
Artist = Elend


Released = 2004
Recorded = Studio des Moines, The Fall
Genre = Neoclassical
Length = 59:04
Label = Holy Records, Prophecy Productions
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Winds Devouring Men"
(1998)
This album = "Sunwar the Dead"
(2004)
Next album = "A World in Their Screams"
(2007)

"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

trings

*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 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

*Nay flutes: Nizar Attawi
*Bass flute: Estelle Sandrard
*Oboe: Vladimir Jamet
*Bass clarinet: Michaël Hardy
*Trumpet, French horn: Klaus Amann
*French horns: Samir Husseini, Philippe Laumond
*Clarinets: Camille Drillon, Samuel Gresch
*Trombone: Arnaud Pasquier
*Bass trombone: René Adam

Percussion

*Timpani, Bass drums: Marc Bertaud
*Bass drums, snare drum: Alexandre Clément
*Cymbals, gongs, tam-tam: Paul Lantenot
*Various bells, steel drums, windchimes: Pierre Mangin
*Industrial devices: Simon Eberl

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.

References

* [http://www.elend-music.org/discography.php?action=show&item=1 "Sunwar the Dead" at Elends discography page]