Winds Devouring Men

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Winds Devouring Men
Studio album by Elend
Released	2003
Recorded	The Fall
Genre	Neoclassical
Length	60:20, 65:38
Label	Holy Records, Prophecy Productions, Goimusic
Elend chronology
The Umbersun (1998)	Winds Devouring Men (2003)	Sunwar the Dead (2004)

Winds Devouring Men is the fifth album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the first album in what is to be the five-part Winds Cycle. The special edition was released in a digipak with a bonus track called Silent Slumber: A God That Breeds Pestilence.

This album is notable as a progression from earlier Elend work in that it does not rely on synthesizers and sequencing to achieve an orchestral sound -- though there are still computerized effects, the majority of the music is played on acoustic instruments by chamber musicians.

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Poisonous Eye" – 6:55
2. "Worn Out With Dreams" – 5:43
3. "Charis" – 5:58
4. "Under War-Broken Trees" – 5:36
5. "Away from Barren Stars" – 7:28
6. "Winds Devouring Men" – 4:38
7. "Vision Is All That Matters" – 5:59
8. "The Newborn Sailor" – 5:45
9. "The Plain Masks of Daylight" – 5:54
10. "A Staggering Moon" – 6:10
11. "Silent Slumber: A God that Breeds Pestilence" – 5:18*

* Bonus track on special edition

[edit] Musicians

• Klaus Amann - trumpet, horn, trombone
• Nathalie Barbary - soprano
• Shinji Chihara - violin, viola
• David Kempf - violin, solo violin
• Esteri Rémond - soprano

All other instruments and vocals, sound-design and programming by Iskandar Hasnawi, Sébastien Roland and Renaud Tschirner. Industrial landscapes and noises captured by Simon Eberl and Renaud Tschirner, designed and programmed by Iskandar Hasnawi.

Elend

Discography

Officium Tenebrarum: Leçons de Ténèbres - Les Ténèbres du Dehors - The Umbersun

Winds Cycle: Winds Devouring Men - Sunwar the Dead - A World in Their Screams

Others: Weeping Nights