Empyrium - A Retrospective... (CD, Comp, RM, Dig) - NEW

Released: 08 Dec 2006
Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered

Tracklist:
[1] The Franconian Woods In Winter's Silence
[2] A Gentle Grieving Farewell Kiss
[3] The Blue Mists Of Night
[4] Mourners
[5] Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays
[6] Dying Brokenhearted
[7] The Shepherd And The Maiden Ghost
[8] Heimwärts
[9] Waldpoesie
[10] Die Schwäne Im Schilf
[11] Das Blau-Kristallne Kämmerlein
[12] Der Weiher
[13] Am Wolkenstieg

A retrospective of the band's history compiled by Ulf Theodor Schwadorf at Klangschmiede Studio E/Mellrichstadt in July 2006.

The CD contains re-mastered tracks from the following albums:

(1996) A Wintersunset... (tracks 1, 2)
(1997) Songs Of Moors & Misty Fields (tracks 3, 4)
(1999) Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays (tracks 5 to 7)
(2002) Weiland (tracks 8 to 11)

"Der Weiher" and "Am Wolkenstieg" are previously unreleased tracks; "The Franconian Woods In Winter's Silence" has been newly arranged and recorded.

The booklet of "A Retrospective..." consists of sixty pages containing a biography of Empyrium and its founder, Markus Stock alias Ulf Theodor Schwadorf in both English and German, written in September 2006 by Stefan Belda.