Accompanied by the monotonous rhythm of a ritual drum, two old funerary violinists are pacing slowly through the darkness towards the black hole of a freshly opened grave... With the single "Imhotep" (originally a special bonustrack only available for fans) SOPOR AETERNUS & THE ENSEMBLE OF SHADOWS are attending to a chapter from their 2004 album "La Chambre d'Echo" and use this radical revision to transform an almost entirely electronic song into a dramatic, chamber-music danse macabre.
Reduced to the bare bones, only accompanied by percussion, a death-bell and two string-players, the fabulously eerie Saint-Varney-of-the-Dead is singing a sad lament of suffering and pain, and demonstrates once again that SOPOR AETERNUS & SOPOR AETERNUS & THE ENSEMBLE OF SHADOWS are still entirely beyond comparison.
classy black 12" vinyl (160g) in cardboard sleeve
with elaborate (laser-engraved) etching on the B-side
Printed inner sleeves
hand-numbered by Anna-Varney Cantodea
Strictly limited 307 copies for regular sales
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