Discografia Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows

"...Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue, doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf; in einer Vision des Untergangs..."

1994

Darkwave

Duracion: 43:40

Creditos:

Gerrit Fischer: Guitarra en "Time stands still..." y "Do you know my Name ?"

Varney: Voz, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Travel on Breath (the Breath of the World) - 3:46

2- Falling into different Flesh - 5:14

3 - Birth - Fiendish Figuration - 5:00

4 - Tanz der Grausamkeit ("Dance of cruelty") - 5:37

5 - Im Garten des Nichts (a secret Light in the Garden of my Void) ("In the garden of nothingness") - 10:51

6 - Time stands still... (...but stops for no-one) - 8:42

7 - Do you know my Name ? (Falling... - reprise) - 4:17

Re-issue bonus tracks

8 - Penance & Pain - 6:21

9 - Holy Water Moonlight - 5:49

10 - Beautiful Thorn - 5:00

11 - The Feast of Blood - 2:37

12 - Dark Delight (dedicated to Victor Bertrand. Performed live without audience... - for the Dead.) - 4:46

13 - Baptisma - 4:45

14 - Birth - Fiendish Figuration ("The inner Hell" - orig. demo) - 5:28

Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne

1995

Darkwave

Duracion: 74:49

Creditos:

Gerrit Fischer: Guitarra en "Soror Sui Excidium", "Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 2)" y"Only the Dead in the Mist"

Varney: Voz, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Flesh Crucifix (Suffering from Objectivity) - 1:52

2 - Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes (Die Unbegreiflichkeit des Dunklen Pfades, den die Kinder Saturns gehen)" ("The Brotherhood of Pain (The incomprehensibility of the dark path, that the children of Saturn go)") - 5:49

3 - Shadowsphere (The Monologue-World and the subconscious Symbols): part one - 5:02

4 - Shadowsphere (The Monologue-World and the subconscious Symbols): part two - 2:35

5 - Saltatio Crudelitatis (Tanz der Grausamkeit, vers.)" ("Dance of cruelty (Dance of cruelty, vers.)") - 5:47

6 - Just a Song without a Name - 0:28

7- Soror Sui Excidium (Geliebte Schwester Selbstzerstörung) ("The destruction of his sister (Beloved sister of self-destruction)") - 4:35

8. "Le Théâtre de la Blessure sacrée" ("The theatre of the sacred wound") - 2:58

9 - The Devil's Instrument - 5:18

10 - Todeswunsch (vers.) ("Death wish (vers.); Cat Stevens) - 5:38

11 - Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 1) (Drama of asexuality (part 1) - 2:05

12 - freitod-Phantasien (suicide-Fantasies) - 3:23

13 - Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 2) (Drama of asexuality (part 2) - 5:10

14 - Saturn-Impressionen (Saturn-Impressions) - 2:47

15 - Somnabulist's secret Bardo-Life (Does the Increase of Pain invite the Absence of Time?) - 4:17

16 - Not dead but dying - 5:11

17 - Only the Dead in the Mist - 5:12

18 - This profane Finality - 4:35

19 - Cage within a Cage... (...within a Cage within a Cage...) - 1:59

The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller

1997

Darkwave

Duracion: 72:11

Creditos:

Una Fallada: Violín

Matthias Eder: Violonchelo

Gerrit Fischer: Guitarra

Constanze Spengler: Lute

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Sylla'borêal (Embracing the Dead Prior to the Service) - 5:05

2 - Question(s) Beyond Terms (Who Is Confronting the Impossible?) - 5:44

3 - C'ayllagher a Dom'bhrail (There Is No Need to Remind Me) - 0:58

4 - To a Loyal Friend (anonymous 16th century Italian composition; arr. Sopor Aeternus) - 6:58

5 - Never Trust the Obvious (or: The Innocence of Devils) - 6:52

6 - The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller: * a fragment * - 5:08

7 - Memalon - 7:24

8 - Memories Are Haunted Places (Birth - Fiendish Figuration, vers.) - 5:42

9 - Die Widerspenstigkeit Unerwünschter Gedanken (The Recalcitrance of Unwanted Thoughts) - 2:32

10 - Synchronicity (to Saturn: Orion) - 0:27

11 - Totenlicht (Infant in the Face of Time) (Deadlight) - 6:02

12 - Ein Freundliches Wort... (...hat Meine Seele Berührt.) (A kind word... (...has touched my soul.) - 5:11

13 - Die Toten Kehren Wieder Mit dem Wind (The Dead Return again with the Wind - 2:55

14 - May I Kiss Your Wound? - 5:47

15 - Ein Gütiges Lächeln auf den Gesichtern der Toten... (A Kind Smile on the Faces of the Dead...) - 5:08

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa

1997

Neo-Medieval, Neoclassical. Darkwave, Gothic Rock

Duracion: 60:25

Creditos:

Una Fallada: Violín

Matthias Eder: Violonchelo

Gerrit Fischer: Guitarra

Constanze Spengler: Lute

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:
1 - The inexperienced Spiral Traveller: * a fragment II * - 5:07
2 - Ein freundliches Wort... (...hat meine Seele berührt.) (defined and fragile) (A kind word... (...has touched my soul.) - 5:10
3 - Memalon II - 7:25
4 - The Innocence of Devils: "Alone (E. A. Poe) - 6:27
5 - Modela est (The Model; Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos, Emil Schult) - 4:35
6 - Birth (instr.) - 2:49
7 - Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers) - 6:30
8 - Menuetto - 1:26
9 - Saturn-Impressionen (Jusa, Jusa) (Saturn-Impressions (Jusa, Jusa) - 2:48
10 - May I kiss your Wound ? (Saturn:Orion) - 6:05
11 - Alone II - 6:55
12 - The inexperienced Spiral Traveller: * a fragment II * (instr.) 5:08

Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face One)

1999

Darkwave, Gothic Rock, Folk

Duracion: 64:23

Creditos:

Katrin Ebert: Violín

Martin Höfert: Violonchelo

Johannes Knirsch: Contrabajo

Eric Santie-Laa: Cor anglais

Peter Hergert: Trompeta, trombón

Eugene de la Fontaine: Tuba, oboe

Martin Hoffman: Guitarras

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Across the Bridge - 4:44

2 - On Satur(n)days we used to sleep - 8:58

3 - Hades "Pluton" - 6:12

4 - Sieh', mein Geliebter, hier hab' ich Gift (Here, my love, I have the poison) - 6:22

5 - Ich wollte hinaus in den Garten (I wanted to go out into the garden) - 8:32

6 - Gebet: an die glücklichen Eroberer (Prayer: The happy conqueror) - 2:49

7- Lament/Totenklage (Lament/Lament for the dead) - 8:18

8 - The Sleeper (by Edgar Allan Poe) - 11:57

9 - Die Knochenblume (The boneflower) - 1:05

10 - Inschrift/Epitaph (Inscription/Epitaph) - 3:27

11 - All good Things are Eleven - 2:49

Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face Two)

1999
Darkwave

Duracion: 59:35

Creditos;

Katrin Ebert: Violín

Martin Höfert: Violonchelo

Johannes Knirsch: Contrabajo

Eric Santie-Laa: Cor anglais

Doreena Gor: Fagote

Michael Schmeißer: Trompeta

Carsten Weilnau: Trombón

Eugene de la Fontaine: Tuba, oboe

Thomas Langer: Guitarras

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Abschied (orig. words & lyrics by NICO) (Farewell; Christa Päffgen) - 7:01

2 - The Dog Burial - 1:15

3 - The House is empty now - 2:54

4 - No-one is there - 6:41

5 - Procession/Funeral March - 6:44

6 - Va(r)nitas, vanitas... (...omnia vanitas) (Varney, vanity... (...all is vanity) - 9:05

7 - The Hourglass - 2:22

8 - Transfiguration - 5:20

9 - Has he come to test me? - 2:09

10 - If Loneliness was all - 8:40

11 - Daffodils - 7:22

Songs from the Inverted Womb

2000
Neoclasico

Duracion: 72:33

Creditos:

Katrin Ebert: Violín

Martin Höfert: Violonchelo

Johannes Knirsch: Contrabajo

Jutta Sinsel: Clarinete, oboe

Guido Spitz: Fagote, contrabajo

Alexander Gröb: Trompeta

Carsten Weilnau: Trombón

Eugene de la Fontaine: Tuba

Simon-Tobias Ostheim: Batería, percusión

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Introduction: Something Wicked this Way comes... - 4:42

2 - Tales from the inverted Womb - 4:48

3 - Do you know about the Water of Life ? - 4:49

4 - ...And Bringer of Sadness - 6:45

5 - Résumé... - 8:28

6 - Totes Kind / Little dead Boy (Dead child / Little dead Boy) - 7:18

7 - May I kiss your Wound ? - 7:00

8 - Saturn devouring his Children - 7:02

9 - There was a Country by the Sea - 12:03

10 - Little velveteen Knight - 5:52

11 - Eldorado (by Edgar Allan Poe) - 3:42

Es reiten die Toten so schnell

2003
Darkwave, Clasico

Duracion: 65:33

Creditos:

Chris Wilson: Violín

Elizabeth Tollington: Violonchelo

Marcus Cornall: Contrabajo, bajo eléctrico

Tonia Precio: Clarinete

Eugene de la Fontaine: Oboe

Eric Santie-Laa: Cor anglais

Doreena Gor: Fagote

James Cunningham: Trompeta

Julian Turner: Trombón

Joan Sweet: Tuba

Paul Brook: Batería

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

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

La Chambre d'Echo

2004
Darkwave

Duracion: 71:58

Creditos:

Chris Wilson: Violín

Susannah Simmons: Violín

Liz Hanks: Violonchelo

Miriam Hughes: Flauta

Tonia Precio: Clarinete

Andrew Pettitt: Oboe

Doreena Gor: Fagote

James Cunningham: Trompeta

Tim Barber: Trompeta

Julian Turner: Trombón

Anthony Bartley: Tuba

Paul Brook: Batería

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - The Encoded Cloister - 4:44

2 - Backbone Practise - 6:00

3 - Idleness & Consequence - 5:08

4 - Beyond the Wall of Sleep - 3:31

5 - Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm) (Imhotep (Black Dragon Mixes Up a Storm) - 4:48

6 - Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter - 3:57

7 - Interlude - The Quiet Earth - 8:34

8 - We Have a Dog to Exercise - 5:50

9 - The Lion's Promise - 4:52

10 - Leeches & Deception - 9:11

11 - The Skeletal Garden - 4:05

12 - Feed the Birds - 0:21

13 - Consolatrix Has Left the Building - 4:34

14 - Day of the Dead - 6:23

The Goat / The Bells Have Stopped Ringing

2005
Darkwave

Duracion: 9:08

Creditos:

Alexander Gröb: Trompeta

Carsten Weilnau: Trombón

Eugene de la Fontaine: Tuba

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

Lado A

1 - The Goat - 4:04

Lado B

1 - The Bells have stopped ringing - 5:04

Les Fleurs du Mal

2007
Darkwave, Gothic

Creditos:

Naomi Koop: Violín

Susannah Simmons: Violín

Liz Hanks: Violonchelo

Miriam Hughes: Flauta

Andrew Piper: Clarinete

Mike Davis: Oboe, cor anglais

Doreena Gor: Fagote

Daniel Robson: Trompeta

Fenton Bragg: Trombón

Eugene de la Fontaine: Tuba

Bert Eerie: Batería

Terence Bat: Batería

Coro de la Colegiata de Santa María de Warwick: Vocales, coros

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación, Letras y musica escritas

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Architecture (All that's erected … are … walls) - 3:35

2 - Always within the Hour - 8:29

3 - In der Palästra (In the Palaestra) - 7:13

4 - A little Bar of Soap - 1:27

5 - Bitter Sweet (Brian Ferry, Andy Mackay) - 5:35

6 - Our Lady of the Broken Hearts - 0:50

7 - La Mort d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) - 3:01

8 - The Simple Joys of Maidenhood - 3:42

9 - Helvetia Sexualis - 10:08

10 - Les Fleurs Du Mal (The flowers of evil) - 8:29

11 - Shave, if you love me - 6:50

12 - Some Men are like Chocolate - 5:20

13 - The Virgin Queen - 11:41

Sanatorium Altrosa

2008
Darkwave

Creditos:

Naomi Koop: Violín

Susannah Simmons: Violín

Liz Hanks: Violonchelo

Miriam Hughes: Flauta

Andrew Piper: Clarinete

Mike Davis: Oboe, cor anglais

Doreena Gor: Fagote

Daniel Robson: Trompeta

Fenton Bragg: Trombón

Eugene de la Fontaine: Tuba

Bert Eerie: Batería

Terence Bat: Batería

Paul Rothwell: Tenor

Edward Bellamy: Choirboy

George Bellamy: Choirboy

Ian Lewis: Choirboy

Mark Williams: Choirboy

Matthew Watson: Choirboy

Sam Swallow: Choirboy

Coro de la Colegiata de Santa María de Warwick: Vocales, coros

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, todos los demás instrumentos y programación

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Consider this: the true Meaning of Love (instr.) - 5:41

2 - Architecture II - 7:23

3 - Shave, if you love me (remix) - 6:47

4 - La Mort d'Arthur (instr.) (The Death of Arthur (instr.) - 3:00

5 - Consider this (orig. version) - 5:37

6 - The Conqueror Worm II (instr.) - 3:48

7 - In der Palästra (instr.) (In the Palaestra) - 7:09

8 - Collision - You May Lie on Your Back, If You Want To ... Even Close Your Eyes to Sleep - 9:45

9 - Les Fleurs du Mal (instr.) (The flowers of evil (instr.) - 5:15

10 - Bitter Sweet (instr.) (Brian Ferry, Andy Mackay) - 5:32

11 - Consider this: the true Meaning of Love - 5:39

Children of the Corn

2011
Darkwave

Creditos:

Thomas Haug (violín, # 1-3)

Nikos Mavridis (violín, # 4-7)

Tim Ströble (violonchelo)

Uta Ferson (clarinete)

Eric Cheng (fagot)

Olegg Mancoviczs (oud)

Eugene de la Fontaine (tuba)

Burt Eerie, Terence Bat (batería)

Todos los demás instrumentos y voces realizadas y / o programadas por Anna-Varney Cantodea.

Lista de Canciones:

1 - Children of the Corn - 07:20

2 - Bis zum Hahnenschrei - 05:36

3 - Cornflowers - 05:51

4 - The Curse of the Mummy - 04:03

5 - Night of the Scarecrow - 04:44

6 -To walk behind the Rows - 06:15

7 - Harvest Moon (Cornflowers II) - 05:49

Have You Seen This Ghost?

2011
NeoClasico, Darkwave
Duracion: 1:14:21

Creditos:

Sopor Aeternus

Anna-Varney Cantodea: voz, todos los demás instrumentos, programación, mezcla

Músicos adicionales:

Thomas Haug: violín

Tim Ströble: violonchelo

Fenton Bragg: trombón

Wayne Coer: trompeta

Eugene de la Fontaine: tuba

Uta Ferson: clarinete

Benjamin Dover: oboe

Eric Chen: fagot

Olegg Mancovicz: balalaika, banjo

Burt Eerie: batería

Terence Bat: batería

Patrick Damiani: grabación, mezcla, ingeniería

Lista de Canciones:
1 - I Don't Believe in Ghosts - 4:17
2 - One Day My Prince Will Come - 7:20
3 - Cornucopia d'Amour (Füllhorn der Liebe) (Cornucopia of love) - 4:29
4 - It Is Safe to Sleep Alone (Marianne Faithfull, Angelo Badalamenti, Frank McGuiness) - 5:57
5 - Hello (Lionel Richie) - 7:58
6 - At the Stroke of Midnight Gently - 1:44
7 - Starlight Seen Through Veils of Tears - 6:37
8 - Powder - 5:39
9 - Angel of the Golden Fountain - 6:03
10 - Where the Ancient Laurel Grows - 5:54
11 - I Fell for One (who loved me not) - 2:34
12 - Holding Out for a Hero (Dean Pitchford, Jim Steinman) - 6:40
13 - The Hours of Sadness - 9:25

Poetica (All Beauty Sleeps)

2013
Darkwave
Duracion: 1:19:05

Creditos:

Nikos Mavridis: Violín

Tim Ströble: Violonchelo

Patrick Damiani: Bajo, Lute, Grabación, Mezcla

Jonas Schira: Cornet

Michael Fütterer: Trombón

Patrick Chirilus-Bruckner: Tuba

Robin Schmidt: Dominando

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, Otros instrumentos, Programación, Mezclas

Lista de Canciones:

1 - The Oblong Box - 1:21

2 - Dreamland - 14:24

3 - Eldorado - 5:33

4 - The Sleeper - 11:01

5 - Alone - 5:05

6 - The Conqueror Worm - 5:50

7 - Alone (2) - 7:16

8 - The City in the Sea - 10:45

9 - The Oblong Box (2) - 1:16

10 - The Haunted Palace - 10:16

11 - A Dream Within a Dream - 6:12

Mitternacht - The Dark Night of the Soul

2014
Darkwave
Duracion: 1:08:24

Creditos:

Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows

Anna-Varney Cantodea: Voces, Otros instrumentos, Programación, Mezclas

Músicos adicionales

Nikos Mavridis: Violín

Tim Ströble: Violonchelo

Sebastian Jülich: Fagot

Isabel Funke: Clarinete

Viola Schwartzkopff: Oboe

Jonas Schira: Cornet

Michael Fütterer: Trombón

Patrick Chirilus-Bruckner: Tuba

Patrick Damiani: Bajo, Lute, Grabación, Mezcla

Marcel Millot: Batería

Robin Schmidt: Dominando

Lista de Canciones:
1 - Mitternacht - 2:22
2 - Beautiful - 8:37
3 - La Prima Vez (Traditional) - 5:33
4 - Bang-Bang (Sonny Bono) - 7:17
5 - The Boy Has Built a Catacomb - 2:16
6 - Carnival of Souls (Verne Langdon) - 3:09
7 - Confessional - 5:58
8 - Under His Light - 7:00
9 - You Cannot Make Him Love You - 2:04
10 - Into the Night (Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch) - 6:01
11 - If You Could Only Read My Mind - 6:03
12 - It's Just That My Sadness - 4:00
13 -Under His Light (2) - 1:19
14 - Miniature - 6:45