Label: Old Europa Cafe - OECD 286

40ページブックレット付きの名作がリイシュー！！多くの名作を残すオーストラリアの独創的インダストリアル・プロジェクトSPKを1978年に始動したGraeme Charles Revell。LustmordのBrian Williamsと共に立ち上げたレーベルMusique Brutより86年にリリースした2枚のLPから、自身の楽曲だけを抜粋し纏めた編集版CD[Musique Brut Collection]が新装版としてOld Europa Cafeより初リイシュー！！コンピューターと虫の声で生成された異様なユーモアを漂わすカルト電子音楽アルバム[The Insect Musicians]、そしてアドルフ・ヴェルフリに捧げる楽曲として、Nurse With Wound、DDAAと共に作り上げた[Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles (The Music Of Adolf Wölfli)]、氏のパーソナルな部分がしっかりと感じ取れる個人的大推薦タイトル。レーベルではヘッドホンで聴く事を推奨しています。40ページのブックレット付きデジパック。











GRAEME REVELL might be known as the mastermind behind the seminal Industrial project SPK.
Or for the many sound-tracks released for the movie industry, for films such as:
Body of Evidence / Boxing Helena / The Crow / Street Fighter / From Dusk till Down / The Craft / the Negotiator / Red Planet / Collateral Damage / High Crimes / Sin City / and many, many others....

- THE INSECT MUSICIANS album is important for severeal reasons:
§ "The Insect Musicians" propably is the first album created with computer only, it was released back in 1986!
§ Years before Matmos, Lopez or Autechre, Revell created microtonal music - not only using samples of micro-sounds (here are sound of insects), but also experimenting with nature of sound itself.
§ Newst technology is mixed with nature, all material comes from the natural environment.
Insects plays, but Revell rearanges it to some kind of weirdo symphony.
An incredible album to be listened very carefully for capture the many different sound-shades.
Probably best result is listening on good headphones.

- NECROPOLIS, AMPHIBIANS & REPTILES:
this used to be a compilation involving also NURSE WITH WOUND and DÉFICIT DES ANNÉES ANTÉRIEURES dedicated to ADOLF WÖLFLI.
ADOLF WÖLFLI was born in Bern.
He was abused both physically and sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of 10.
He often attempted to perform sexual acts on young girls – often getting away unpunished [citation needed].
Eventually, he was caught in the act and institutionalized for his doings.
After being freed, he was re-arrested for a similar offense and in 1895 was admitted to the Waldau Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in Bern where he spent the rest of his adult life.
He was very disturbed and sometimes violent on admission, he suffered from psychosis, which led to intense hallucination.
At some point after his admission Wölfli began to draw, incredible drowings!
His first surviving works (a series of 50 pencil drawings) are dated from between 1904 and 1906.

Special CD-Digipak + 40 Pages' Booklet + Slipcase

Tracklist:
§ The Insect Musicians
1. Nocturne (On An Oriental Theme)
2. The Sleeping Sickness
3. Melancholia
4. La Danse Des Ténèbres (Dance Of Shadows)
5. Variation On The 'Sakura' (Japanese Traditional)
6. Nature Morte (Still Life)
7. Balinese Twilights
8. Phobia (An Australian Theme)
9. Invaders Of The Heart
10. Et Spiritus Sanctus
§ Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles
11. Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles 4:13
12. Countess Saladine 2:31
13. Chimpnags-Apes Of The Union Canada: America 4:38
14. Allgebrah 2:41
15. Ebony Tower In The Orient. Water Fanfaare No.1 3:50
16. The Bälli 2:19