Flowers in Formaldehyde

"Flowers in Formaldehyde" is the second EP by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2004 as a companion to the album La Chambre D'Echo - Where the Dead Birds sing. Only 2,000 CDs and 700 LPs were pressed.

Flowers in Formaldehyde
EP by Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
Released	2004 (2004)
Genre	Darkwave
Length	30:28
Label	Apocalyptic Vision
Producer	Anna-Varney, John A. Rivers
Sopor Aeternus EP chronology
Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh (1995) Flowers in Formaldehyde (2004) A Strange Thing to Say (2007)

Originally announced as The Adventures of Ms Penny Dreadful, Flowers featured four new songs, two instrumentals of songs from La Chambre D'Echo and an extensive remix of "Do you know my Name ?" from Sopor Aeternus' first album, Ich töte mich.... The first half of the EP remains some of Sopor Aeternus' most pop-oriented work yet.

Flowers in Formaldehyde was re-issued the following year as part of the rarities box set Like a Corpse Standing in Desperation. Apocalyptic Vision explained that extensive counterfeiting of the EP was cause for its inclusion in the set.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Anna-Varney Cantodea.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In an Hour Darkly"	4:58
2.	"The Conqueror Worm (by Edgar Allan Poe)"	3:28
3.	"Minnesang"	3:36
4.	"Von der Einfalt" ("Of simplicity")	1:40
5.	"Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter (instrumental)"	3:39
6.	"Leeches & Deception (instrumental)"	6:59
7.	"Extract from: The Voices of the Dead"	0:58
8.	"Do you know my Name ? / What has happened while we slept ?"	5:06

Personnel

• Susannah Simmons: Violin
• Elizabeth Tollington: Cello
• Miriam Hughes: Flute
• Tonia Price: Clarinet
• Andrew Pettitt: Oboe
• Doreena Gor: Bassoon
• Tim Barber: Trumpet
• Julian Turner: Trombone
• Anthony Bartley: Tuba
• Paul Brook: Drums
• Anna-Varney Cantodea: Vocals, all other instruments and programming