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| Location: | Ile-de-France |
| Country: |  France |
| Last Login: | Nov 4, 2007 (751 days back) |
About Me |
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| Founded in 1993 by composers and multi-instrumentalists Iskandar Hasnawi (France) and Renaud Tschirner (Austria), joined by keyboard player, programmer and engineer Sébastien Roland in 1997, ELEND have gathered around them various musicians in the course of their existence: violinist David Kempf (2000-present), the sopranos Eve-Gabrielle Siskind (1994-1995), Nathalie Barbary (1995-2003), Esteri Rémond (2003-present) and Laura Angelmayer (2005-present). The completion of the Officium Tenebrarum (or Office des Ténèbres, 1993-1998), ELEND's dark and violent trilogy, was followed by a hiatus of several years, where the composers turned to other, non-public musical projects. ELEND resurfaced with Winds Devouring Men in 2003, the first part of a new sequence of albums. This work saw them take a quieter turn, soft and delicate strings were organically intertwined with exotic tones and harsh metallic textures and sounds inspired by French musique concrète. On their next album, the furious and dark Sunwar the Dead (2004), the composers combined their talent for large and dense orchestration with the most extreme experiments of the musical avant-garde of the XXth century. Their latest album A World in Their Screams, which completes their Winds Cycle trilogy, was recorded with 30 instrumentalists and vocalists. The new compositions follow the long epic prose poem which also served as the foundation for the previous two parts of the Winds Cycle, combining personal themes with references to ancient Greek authors. Techniques from the musical avant-garde are tied together with a massive use of electronics and experiments with the human voice; microtonality, sonorism and musique concrète are fused with the post-Romantic instrumentation that is still intrinsically linked to ELEND’s musical identity. Difficulties in producing this unprecedented type of music led to a deferral of the initially scheduled release date. The earliest draft of the album, contemporaneous with Sunwar the Dead, was modified several times: when the recording sessions had to be postponed the album was merged with the work in progress for the abstract and violent ELEND side-project ENSEMBLE ORPHIQUE. Since techniques had to be invented and developed in order to master such an uncommon sound, ELEND’s intensive and unusually long-lasting work on this album fostered a further radicalisation in composition and production: the result surpasses even their legendary album The Umbersun (1998) in terms of oppressive darkness. A World in Their Screams pushes the limits of musical density, suffocating atmospheres and raw violence to a point of no return. |
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Music:Member Since: 1/19/2007Band Website: elend-music.org Band Members: Iskandar Hasnawi, Sébastien Roland, Renaud Tschirner and session musicians and vocalists Influences: sort of... Krzysztof Penderecki, Giacinto Scelsi, Pierre Henry, Peter Eötvös, Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Alfred Schnittke, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler Sounds Like: nothing else Record Label: Holy Records, Orphika/Noevdia, Prophecy Productions Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Classical Opera and Vocal/Experiment |
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My Blog |
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[07/04/2007] Interview and reviews again |
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| New interview in French here (thrashocore). And new reviews in French: VS webzine Spirit of Metal Metal Nightfall in Italian: Amongst the Ruins in Spanish: Executioner in English: Gothronic in German... Posted by elend (official page) on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:53:00 PST |
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[06/27/2007] New interview and reviews online |
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| You can find a recent interview in French here (the french touch) ...and new online reviews there: in French: Thrashocore, Obskre, Pavillon666 in English: Chronicles of Chaos, Virus Mag. in G... Posted by elend (official page) on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:49:00 PST |
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[05/30/2007] AWITS: English Translation of the Text available |
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| The complete text of A World in Their Screams and its English translation are now available as pdf-files in the downloads section of our website.... Posted by elend (official page) on Wed, 30 May 2007 08:09:00 PST |
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New songs and pictures posted |
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| New song added to this page -"Ares in Their Eyes" from "Sunwar the Dead" (2003) New songs posted to myspace elend II -J'ai touch aux confins de la mort (alternate mix) from "A World in Their Screa... Posted by elend (official page) on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:55:00 PST |
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AWITS released in France, postponed in Europe+first reviews |
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| Release dates: AWITS was released in France yesterday, but the release date for the rest of Europe had to be postponed to May 7th. Here is the message from Prophecy Productions: Due to manufacturing ... Posted by elend (official page) on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:37:00 PST |
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A World in Their Screams |
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| A World in Their Screams was finally completed after two years of hard work, delays and postponements. The track-list is as follows: Ophis puthn A World in Their Screams Ondes de sang ... Posted by elend (official page) on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:20:00 PST |
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A message from the Prophecy street team: |
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| All fans of Elend can support the band by doing some simple promotion work! If you're interested in doing this, please send an email including the band name to:manuela@prophecyproductions.de... Posted by elend (official page) on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:33:00 PST |
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New album coming soon |
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| Elend's new album A World in Their Screams will be released April 23, 2007 through Holy Records (France), Prophecy Productions (rest of Europe) and Orphika - a division of Noevdia, via Season of Mist ... Posted by elend (official page) on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:33:00 PST |
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