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Es reiten die Toten so schnell (or: the Vampyre sucking at his own Vein) (German: "The Dead Ride So Fast") is the seventh album[2] by darkwave act Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2003.[1] A double vinyl edition and an A5-sized boxed set edition was released, in limited quantities of 666 and 1,999 copies, respectively. The double vinyl edition came with a poster, T-shirt, postcards, communion wafers and "authenticated" graveyard soil.
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| Released | 2003 | |||
| Genre | Darkwave, classical | |||
| Length | 65:33[1] | |||
| Label | Apocalyptic Vision | |||
| Producer | Sopor Aeternus, John A. Rivers | |||
| Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows chronology | ||||
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Overview edit
For Es reiten die Toten so schnell, Anna-Varney Cantodea went back to her demo tape of the same name and re-recorded all of its songs; the first seven tracks of this album consist of the demo tape in its original sequence. The rest of the album features re-recordings of the bonus tracks that were included on the first Sopor Aeternus album, Ich töte mich..., along with a handful of new songs. "Birth - Fiendish Figuration", Sopor Aeternus' signature song from their first album, appears again in its fourth incarnation on a record. The original version of "Reprise" was a spoken word piece featuring a line from the bridge of "Dead Souls".
John A. Rivers, producer for Swell Maps, Dead Can Dance and Love and Rockets, was brought in to oversee production on 'Es reiten...[2] The album was recorded in England,[3] as opposed to Sopor Aeternus' home country of Germany.[2]
Track listing edit
All tracks are written by Anna-Varney Cantodea
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Omen Sinistrum" ("Inauspicious omen") | 2:46 |
| 2. | "Dead Souls" | 7:04 |
| 3. | "Stake of my Soul" | 3:01 |
| 4. | "Beautiful Thorn" | 5:14 |
| 5. | "Baptisma" | 6:37 |
| 6. | "The Feast of Blood" | 3:35 |
| 7. | "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est" ("Sleep is the brother of Death") | 5:33 |
| 8. | "The Dreadful Mirror" | 5:53 |
| 9. | "Reprise" | 3:41 |
| 10. | "Birth - Fiendish Figuration" | 2:52 |
| 11. | "Penance & Pain" | 4:26 |
| 12. | "Holy Water Moonlight" | 5:11 |
| 13. | "Infant" | 0:51 |
| 14. | "Über den Fluss" ("Across the river") | 2:04 |
| 15. | "Dark Delight" | 6:43 |
Personnel edit
- Chris Wilson: Violin
- Elizabeth Tollington: Cello
- Marcus Cornall: Double bass, electric bass
- Tonia Price: Clarinet
- Eugene de la Fontaine: Oboe
- Eric Santie-Laa: Cor anglais
- Doreena Gor: Bassoon
- James Cunningham: Trumpet
- Julian Turner: Trombone
- Joan Sweet: Tuba
- Paul Brook: Drums
- Anna-Varney Cantodea: Vocals, all other instruments and programming
References edit
- ^ a b "Es reiten die Toten so schnell van SOPOR AETERNUS (official) op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2008-12-08. Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
- ^ a b c The utterly fabulous ANNA-VARNEY CANTODEA. "SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble Of Shadows". Soporaeternus.de. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
- ^ Liner Notes for Es reiten die Toten so schnell