Elend "Les Ténèbres du Dehors"

Les Ténèbres du Dehors is an album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the second in the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy.

The album was remastered and re-released in April 2001 with a bonus track called Birds of Dawn (originally on a Holy Records sampler) with a red-tinted cover, instead of the original blue.

Track listing

1. "Nocturne" — (4:51)
2. "Ethereal Journeys" — (14:29)
3. "The Luciferian Revolution" — (10:57)
4. "Eden (The Angel in the Garden)" — (4:17)
5. "The Silence of Light" — (8:05)
6. "Antienne" — (6:45)
7. "Dancing under the Closed Eyes of Paradise" — (9:36)
8. "Birds of Dawn" — (12:10)*
9. "Les Ténèbres du Dehors" — (4:23)

* Bonus track on 2001 re-release

All instruments and vocals performed by Nathalie Barbary, Eve Gabrielle Siskind, Iskandar Hasnawi and Renaud Tschirner.

Artwork:

"La Vierge aux Rochers" by Leonardo da Vinci.

"Paysage sous la Lune" by Victor Hugo.

"Weeping Christ" by Albrecht Dürer. 

"Illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost" engravings by Gustave Doré.

Photography by Umberto Appa and Alexandre Hasnaoui.

"Les ténèbres du dehors" means "Darkness from Outside". It is the second part of the (Latin-titled) "Officium Tenebrarum". So, basically, "Les ténèbres du dehors" has the unwritten subtitle "Officium Tenebrarum (pt.2)".

Recorded in November-December 1995. Words and music by Alexandre Hasnaoui and Renaud Tschirner. Executive producers: Holy Records, Alexandre Hasnaoui, and Renaud Tschimer.