SPK Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers) (40th Anniversary Edition) Vinyl LP 2026
- Invocation (To Secular Heresies)
- Palms Crossed in Sorrow
- Romanz in Moll (Romance in a Minor Key)
- In the Dying Moments
- In Flagrante Delicto (Introduction)
- In Flagrante Delicto
- Alocasia Metallica
- Necropolis
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- The Doctrine of Eternal Ice
Originally released by Side Effects in 1986, “Zamia Lehmanni” was the third (and final) core SPK album and was Graeme Revell’s first truly solo project. He was in a period of transition, somewhere between the industrial noise of the early years and his later award-winning soundtrack work. On the day before this was first released, this style of music, now ubiquitous (especially in soundtracks), did not exist.
After “Information Overload Unit” cleared a space for subsequent explorations, and the environmental percussion and anchored mutilated sound collages of “Leichenschrei”, the “body without organs” was fully eviscerated. Graeme felt ‘industrial music’ was becoming ossified and needed to be taken into radically new territories: ‘post-industrial’.
The track “In Flagrante Delicto” (mastered as originally intended here) was later used by Revell for his work on the soundtrack for the 1989 film, “Dead Calm”, which won him Best Original Score from the Australian Film Institute. We now present this landmark album on newly remastered CD, and on vinyl for the first time since 1986. Approved by Graeme Revell, this release comes with new artwork by Abby Helasdottir and is remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage).
Graeme Revell went on to score the soundtracks to some of the world`s biggest movies - The Crow, Batman, Riddick, The Craft, Chucky, Freddie Vs Jason, Sin City, Lara Croft, Daredevil, From Dusk Till Dawn, and dozens more. “A real turning point for Graeme Revell and SPK – a set that moves past the easy industrial and metal dance of the group's earlier records, and comes up with the more complicated soundscapes that would serve Revell well for years to come – both in his famous soundtrack music, and his more underground projects! The vibe here is definitely more in the latter mode – kind of the farther, darker reaches of the 4AD spectrum at its best – a matured version of some earlier industrial modes, with a greater sense of the sonic possibilities of the globe – and a trans-historical sensibility that really keeps things interesting – as Revell blends together acoustic and electric sources from a variety of instruments, and samples sounds from live locations too – all in this painterly style that illuminates the tunes” (Dusty Groove)
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- Invocation (To Secular Heresies)
- Palms Crossed in Sorrow
- Romanz in Moll (Romance in a Minor Key)
- In the Dying Moments
- In Flagrante Delicto (Introduction)
- In Flagrante Delicto
- Alocasia Metallica
- Necropolis
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- The Doctrine of Eternal Ice
Originally released by Side Effects in 1986, “Zamia Lehmanni” was the third (and final) core SPK album and was Graeme Revell’s first truly solo project. He was in a period of transition, somewhere between the industrial noise of the early years and his later award-winning soundtrack work. On the day before this was first released, this style of music, now ubiquitous (especially in soundtracks), did not exist.
After “Information Overload Unit” cleared a space for subsequent explorations, and the environmental percussion and anchored mutilated sound collages of “Leichenschrei”, the “body without organs” was fully eviscerated. Graeme felt ‘industrial music’ was becoming ossified and needed to be taken into radically new territories: ‘post-industrial’.
The track “In Flagrante Delicto” (mastered as originally intended here) was later used by Revell for his work on the soundtrack for the 1989 film, “Dead Calm”, which won him Best Original Score from the Australian Film Institute. We now present this landmark album on newly remastered CD, and on vinyl for the first time since 1986. Approved by Graeme Revell, this release comes with new artwork by Abby Helasdottir and is remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage).
Graeme Revell went on to score the soundtracks to some of the world`s biggest movies - The Crow, Batman, Riddick, The Craft, Chucky, Freddie Vs Jason, Sin City, Lara Croft, Daredevil, From Dusk Till Dawn, and dozens more. “A real turning point for Graeme Revell and SPK – a set that moves past the easy industrial and metal dance of the group's earlier records, and comes up with the more complicated soundscapes that would serve Revell well for years to come – both in his famous soundtrack music, and his more underground projects! The vibe here is definitely more in the latter mode – kind of the farther, darker reaches of the 4AD spectrum at its best – a matured version of some earlier industrial modes, with a greater sense of the sonic possibilities of the globe – and a trans-historical sensibility that really keeps things interesting – as Revell blends together acoustic and electric sources from a variety of instruments, and samples sounds from live locations too – all in this painterly style that illuminates the tunes” (Dusty Groove)
