"La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing

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"La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing
Studio album by Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows
Released	2004
Genre	Darkwave
Length	71:58
Label	Apocalyptic Vision
Producer(s)	Anna-Varney, John A. Rivers
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows chronology
"Es reiten die Toten so schnell" (2003)	"La Chambre D'Echo" - Where the dead Birds sing (2004)	"Flowers in Formaldehyde" (2004)
Vinyl cover

"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 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 3000 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 album "Es reiten die Toten so schnell" (or: the Vampyre sucking at his own Vein) on its cover. The vinyl edition features its own abridged version of the book as well as a poster.

[edit] Track listing

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)" – 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