Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh

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Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh

EP by Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows

Released

1995

Recorded

Genre

Darkwave

Length

21:02

Label

Apocalyptic Vision

Producer

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows chronology

Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne
(1995)

Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh
(1995)

"The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller"
(1997)

Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh (Hebrew for I Am Who I Am) is the title of Darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows' first EP. It was released in 1995. Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh was released as a companion to the previous album Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne, containing a few tracks from "Todeswunsch" in altered forms alongside the new two-part song "Anima". A limited pressing of 3,000 CDs was initially available.

In 2005, Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh was re-released alongside Voyager - The Jugglers of Jusa and Es reiten die Toten so schnell... for the first time as part of the rarities box set Like a Corpse standing in Desperation, due to very costly "collector's prices" for cheap copies of the recordings, which were being sold on eBay. In the liner notes of the box set, Anna-Varney explains that most of Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh was created by removing backing tracks from the songs from "Todeswunsch".

The cover painting is a detail of "Saint Jerome" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.