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SPK (S.P.K.) - Zamia Lehmanni (Songs of Byzantine Flowers)

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Cold Spring CSR274LP Release Year: 2019 Note: re-issue of the classic SPK album and mystic ethno-masterpiece (1986, Side Effects) with new liner notes by GRAEME REVELL, gatefold-cover / lim. golden vinyl (lim. 500); "Its overall spirit is bathed in a classical mysticism conjured from the sounds and instruments of New Guinea and Indonesia. These textural pieces are occasionally accompanied by choral chants that add a haunting air. Their restraint belies an inner strenght that sends shivers down your vulnerability." [Kevin Murphy /Sounds] Price (incl. 19% VAT): €23.50 More Info 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. Unavailable in any format since Mute’s 1992 CD edition, 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). LP on sumptuous 180gm black or limited edition gold vinyl, presented in a 350gsm gatefold sleeve. CD in a 6-panel digipak. The track “The Doctrine Of Eternal Ice” appears on CD only, but is included on the digital download for vinyl. Both formats feature new liner notes from Graeme Revell, 2019. https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/zamia-lehmanni-songs-of-byzantine-flowers-csr274cd-lp