The Grey Area

Track Listings

1. The Alter

2. Listen & Learn

3. Dance Your Life Away

4. Def Shephard (f/ JFK)

5. The Ozz

6. Oh My

7. Can You Hear Me (f/ Barfly, Bishop)

8. Legend Had It

9. Our Way (f/ Vance Snow, Gash)

10. A.D.F.

11. The Breaks 03 (f/ P.S.C. of Living Legends)

12. Believe 2

13. Poltergeist

14. 717 (f/ Karim of the Boom Bap Project)

15. Begin

16. The Zone (f/JFK)

17. Whos' Really Listening (f/ Qwel & Qwazaar of Typical Cats, Sleep)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
It has been said "Edgar Allen Poe's spirit lives on in Onry Ozzborn" (Mean Street Magazine). While this may be true, Onry's spirit also manifests in his ability to bust catch-22 lyrics with perplexing and surrealistic observations on pop culture, hip hop, his crew Oldominion, life in the Pacific Northwest, his past growing up in New Mexico, and most of all his son Nicholas.

"Being where I'm from, I talk about things no one else in hip hop talks about," he says. "Hip hop talks about the streets. Well, I heard about that stuff but never saw it. So I'm left with what I grew up with."

What exactly was it that Onry grew up with? The answer lies in New Mexico. Onry grew up in Farmington, NM (kitty-corner to Roswell, NM) where UFOs, skin walkers, dreamcatchers, red chilies, the desert, and Native American and Hispanic cultures are predominant. In New Mexico, the state motto is "The Land of Enchantment". It is a unique and interesting place to say the least. Attend a Zozobra festival and you will begin to understand where Onry draws his unique personality. A personality which lends itself to many things, including his name.

The name, "Onry" was given to him by his mom for being such an "ornery" kid. "Ozzborn" was later added by his crew as a joke stemming from his signature production utilizing heavy metal samples, his affinity for loud rock, spikes, wearing black, and jokes about biting bird's heads off.

On "The Grey Area", Onry creates four of his own signature beats along with fellow Oldominon producers Pale Soul, Smoke, and PeeGee 13. Lead producer, Mr Hill, (the next big producer to come out of Seattle - just watch, we promise!) gave the album a few club bangers (Onry Ozzborn style). The album includes guest appearances by P.S.C. (Living Legends), Chicago's Qwel & Qwazaar (Typical Cats), Karim of the Boom Bap Project, and of course shining raps from fellow Oldominion mates: JFK, Barfly, Bishop, Gash, Sleep, and Vance Snow (the new mystery member of Oldominion).

The album touches on cobblestone street life, zombies, black magic, and among other things: religion and spirituality. Confronted on the religion issue from a recent interview, he says:

"I'm a real spiritual person - I believe in God, but I don't believe in churches or organized religions. I focus on spiritual issues in my own way."

His "own way", and the general discussion of spiritual issues, may not be very politically correct in the mostly secular world of underground hip-hop. But, Oldominion as a whole is not very politically correct. Onry doesn't like to make much of the religion issue since he views it as a non-issue. He stresses he isn't this or that, and when discussing it with him for this write up he told us, "All people have to do is listen to the words, and they will understand."

The Grey Area,Onry Ozzborn,One Drop,Pop,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop

The Grey Area

Tracks:

Sadness Dub (7:07)
Slowly (6:57)
Iona (7:01)
Penumbra (6:35)
Amphibia (6:22)
Avon Dub (8:06)
Modular Drift (3:10)
Ersatz Filament (5:48)
Long Distance (6:10)
Pure & Sample (7:36)

Album Description

Grey Area is an acclaimed down-under electronic music act from Sydney, Australia - the project of composer, producer and DJ Alex Salter.

Waveform Records, purveyors of exquisite, exotic electronica and heavenly, dub-influenced beats, welcomes Alex and Grey Area to America and a new label home for the best of Grey Area's rich history of material along with some equally superb new and previously unreleased recordings.

And Then the Clouds is a best of collection with a wealth of ear catching new recordings also included. Smooth, aquatic flavors that facilitate instant immersion. Dive in!

Customer Reviews:

Stunning!.......2007-06-30

Years ago I had a handfull of sampler CDs from the Spiritzone lable, and fell in love with Grey Area's brand of ambient-dub/electronica. Thanks to Waveform for this package.

And then the clouds.......2007-01-19

I was far more than pleased with Gray Area's sound, especially the title song: "And then the clouds", it was this song that made me buy the cd. I truly enjoyed all of the songs.

Doctor Who: At the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Vol. 1

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DR WHO RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP VOLUME ONE
Niche Music Cuts

Doctor Who: At the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Vol. 1
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Grey Area
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ASIN: B0009JOPHQ
Release Date: 2005-05-30

Tracks:

Doctor Who (Original Theme)
Tardis Exterior Hum And Door (Original)
Entry Into The Tardis
Tardis: Original Takeoff Sequence
Doctor Who (Original Titles Music)
Tardis Takeoff
Skaro: Petrified Forest Atmosphere ('Thal Wind')
Tardis Computer
Dalek City Corridor
Dalek Control Room
Capsule Oscillation (Dalek Destructor Fuse/Bomb Countdown)
Explosion, Tardis Stops
Sleeping Machine
Sensorite Speech Background
Dalek Spaceship Lands
Tardis Lands
Chumbley (Constant Run)
Chumbley At Rest
Chumbley Sends Message
Chumbley Dome (Rises/Falls/Rises/Falls)
Chumbley Dies
Activity On Dalek Ship Control Panel
Energy Escapes
Machinery In Tardis Goes Wild (Regeneration)
Regeneration Runs Down
The Doctor's Transitional Trauma
The Fish People (Incidental Music)
Heartbeat Chase
Chromophone Band
Controller Chimes
Musak (From 'Time In Advance')
Propaganda Sleep Machine
Doctor Who (New Opening Theme. 1967)
Sting & Web (Cocooning Interior)/Cobweb Pulsates
4 Strings
Mr Oak And Mr Quill (Incidental Music)
Lead-In To Cyber Planner
Cyber Planner Background
Cyberman Stab & Music
Rocket Stab
Birth Of Cybermats
Cybermats Attracted To Wheel
Rocket In Space
Interior Rocket (Suspense Music)
Servo Robot Music
Wheel Stab
Cosmos Atmosphere
Alien Ship Music
Jarvis In A Dream State
Floating Through Space
2 Stabs
Tardis (New Landing)
Galaxy Atmosphere
Tension Builder (a)
Tension Builder (c)
Tension Builder (d)
Low Sting
Tardis: Extra Power Unit Plugged In
Zoe's Theme
White Void
Muzak (From 'Time In Advance')
Cyberman Brought To Life
Cyber Invasion
The Learning Hall
Entry Into The Machine
Sting
Machine And City Theme
Kroton Theme
Tardis Land
Alien Control Centre
Time Zone Atmosphere
Dimensional Control (Sidrat Dimensions Contract)
War Lord Arrival
Silver Box (The Doctor Calls For Help)
Time Lord Court Atmosphere
Doctor Who (Closing Titles)

Album Description

The music, effects and atmospherics from the heyday of the cult TV show 1963-1969. An insight into the BBC recordings workshop pioneering techniques that influenced electronic music. MUTE 2005

Album Details

Volume One Focuses on the Years 1963-1969 (During which Time the Doctor was Played by William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton) Charting the Music from the Very First Episode, Taking Us Through to 1969 When the Doctor was Banished to Earth by the Time Lords. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was a Legendary Facility Which, for Over Forty Years, Created Pioneering Techniques for Sound that were Used on a Myriad of Programmes (Dr who was their Biggest Client) and for the First Time, Demonstrated the Importance and Value of Intelligent, Creative Use of Sound. The Workshop's Techniques Inspired all Manner of Musicians at the Time and Continue to Do So Today. Featuring Familiar Sounds and Music from the Dr Who, the CDs Are Both an Insight Into the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's Pioneering Techniques and Influence on Electronic Music and a Glorious Reminder of the Dr who of Old, all the More Timely Since Christopher Eccleston is Currently Travelling Through Time and Space on BBC Right Now.

Customer Reviews:

DR WHO RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP VOLUME ONE.......2007-05-07

THIS IS A MARVALIOUS COLLECTION OF MUSISAL TONALITIES FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF THE VENERABLE BRITISH TV TIME TRAVELING SMASH HIT DR WHO. FROM THE 1964 ORIGINAL OPENING TITLE THEME TO THE CLOSING THEME YOU WILL HEAR UNEARTHLY SOUNDS ELECTRICLY SYNSHESTIZED WITH AMAZING AND SMASHING SUCESS! BRINGING BACK A FLOOD OF MRMORIES OR IF IT IS YOUR FIRST TIME, NOCKING YOUR ELECTRIC SOCKS OFF.INSPIRED BY THE 1956 MOVIE FORBIDDEN PLANET; DR WHO GREATLY SURPASSED IT WITH SOUNDS AND MUSIC AND THECHNOLOGY THAT LEAD DIRECTLY TO ALL OF POP MUSIC FROM MOOG TO THE ELECTRO POP INVASION OF THE LATE 70s TO TODAYS BLAND DIGITAL POPULAR FARE. TAKE A CHANCE AND SEE WHAT THE FUTURE OR PAST MY SOUND LIKE!! THEN WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED FROM YOUR MAGICAL TRAVELS TRY VOLUME TWO FOR JUST AS GOOD A TRIP, IF NOT BETTER! LEADING YOU TO THE DR.s 1980s. IF YOUR LOOKING FOR A GOOD LISTEN OR A MUSICAL EDUCATION YOU HAVE FOUND IT.

Niche Music Cuts.......2007-01-03

Dr. Who music is historic in the sense that it was the vanguard of the clubby techo-music craze. I purchased the CD after listening to a BBC Radio Show about the Radiophonic Workshop. In a word, "nostalgic."

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SPK! SPK! SPK!
Back when Industrial meant something...
Their Best
Scare those pop lovers!
Industrial rock from the late days of the cold war.

Auto DaFe
SPK
Manufacturer: Grey Area
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Leichenschrei
Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers
Immersion Remixes: Full Immersion
God & Beast
The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle

ASIN: B000007417
Release Date: 1993-01-26

Tracks:

Contact
Germanik
Mekano
Retard
Slogun
Metal Field
Walking On Dead Steps
A Heart That Breaks (In No Time Or Place)
Another Dark Age
Twilight Of The Idols
Culturecide

Customer Reviews:

SPK! SPK! SPK!.......2005-01-25

First off: I'm not the kind of guy that spends time writing reviews for every CD in his collection.
But this SPK cd is really so damn great I couldn't resist. If you want to hear TRUE industrial - not this lame "goth" stuff of the past decade - buy SPK's Auto Da Fe. After all these years, this one still sounds amazingly powerful and inventive.

It includes their first two singles(!), some tracks from 1982 and their '83 E.P. "Dekompositiones".

Recommended tracks:

"Kontakt" - a great electropunk track. If you like Cabaret Voltaire's "Nag nag nag", you'll like this one too.

"Germanik" - those barking german vocals!

"Slogun" - the definition of 'HARSH'! It starts off with distorted moaning and screaming, kinda like a sample of a snuff movie, or someone getting electrocuted. Really disturbing. My wife gets scared when I put it on. Then suddenly there's a noisy and really intense, aggressive synth rhythm and a guy screaming 'SPK! SPK! SPK!' on top. Pure sonic terror - it'll make you want to kill everyone in sight.

"Metal field" - starts of like an early Cabaret Voltaire piece, then turns into a pretty danceable industrial/wave song with DAF/early Front 242 sequences.

"Another dark age" - great electro/wave with dark vocals, akin' to early Front 242.

This is their best release, definitely.

Back when Industrial meant something..........2004-06-12

...back when Industrial culture was dangerous, cynical and determined to spread it's message. Back when Industrial culture actually existed. The time of SPK when a time when Industrial was not just a style of music, but a philosophy. Not dance music, not techno-pop, not electro goth or electro metal. Industrial was cultural, social and sometimes political propaganda. It was sonic terrorism. Industrial meant clanging machinery, scrap metal, screeching analog electronics, feedback, mutated post-punk noise, primitive ethnic rhythms, and anti-musical experimentation. If you want the true Industrial experience, rather than what MTV and magazines tell you is Industrial, this cd is a perfect place to start. It has all of the above and more.

Their Best.......2002-12-27

This is the strongest release from SPK.The ear-shredding track Slogun is a benchmark Industrial track. Hard to believe these are the same guys who went Euro-pop a few years later. A MUST OWN for fans of industrial/noize but NOT for the faint of heart.

Scare those pop lovers!.......2002-05-20

If some guy drives up next to you with that rediculous rap music blasting from his speakers, just pop in your SPK cd and let Slogun do it's thing. People will think twice about ever messing with you.

Industrial rock from the late days of the cold war........2002-04-26

Introspective sounds which are similar to other arthouse rock noise makers, such as Matt Johnson, Dome, Throbbing Gristle and Fetus Prodictions.

The most interesting industrial musicians who dont appear to put a persona across their art. They seem happy to be anonymous, perhaps that influenced cutting edge dance music makers later on.

Leichenschrei
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Great industrial music

wow just wow

This is why people say Industrial sounded like machines

Seminal & Subliminal

One of the GREATEST Industrial records EVER.

Leichenschrei
SPK
Manufacturer: Grey Area
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The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle

D.O.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

ASIN: B000007419
Release Date: 1995-10-12

Tracks:

Genetic Transmission
Post-Mortem
Desolation
Napalm (Terminal Patient)
Cry From The Sanatorium
Baby Blue Eyes
Israel
Internal Bleeding
Chamber Music
Despair
The Agony Of The Plasma
Day Of Pigs
Wars Of Islam
Maladia Europa (The European Sickness)

Customer Reviews:

Great industrial music.......2006-08-17

This contains sme of the more interesting industrial music from that era. The recordings were of excellent quality and the soundpieces are really very exciting and uncompromising. As others wrote this is not at all what they would sound like later.

wow just wow.......2005-12-27

nothing will ever beat the old school sound, this album is what its all about people, put down the vnv nation and get this if u want to step to the other side.

This is why people say Industrial sounded like machines.......2005-10-06

Sadly forgotten by pretty much everyone these days, SPK was the most idealistic, interesting and just plain insane industrial group of the entire movement. While much of TG adopts the anarchy-as-an-art-form approach, SPK used machines, samples, metals, scientific research and photograph and mindnumblingly loud distorted tones as a focused political statement.

Anyone who hasn't heard the REAL industrial from the political movement of the late 70's needs this record. I also recommend reading SPK's dokuments if you have interest in the philosophy behind the initial creation of industrial music and records like this (if there are any others... I need Information Overload Unit).

This album is a flowing, themed masterpiece... with absolutely no melody. If you prefer a more calm, melodic and artistic but still just as well crafted SPK buy Zamia Lehmanni, a brilliant and peaceful record.

This is not for the faint of heart. Pigs screaming, gruesome descriptions of the effects of napalm, a creepy voice describing someone trying to intentionally give them diseases, breaking glass, low end blasts, high frequency tones, etc. This was designed to make you agitated.

Highly recommended for anyone that would still be interested after reading this description of it, as well as other people's.

Seminal & Subliminal.......2004-02-03

The second full length effort by early German industrialists SPK, Leichenscrei is more of an ambient train wreck than the more concise new wave experiments they would later dabble in, beginning with 1983's Metal Dance EP (which featured the crucial addition of Graeme Revell). Interestingly enough, while the band members preferred to retain their anonymity, an insert titled "Dokument 2" was included in early copies of the album detailing their growing interest in multimedia presentation of their work, and encouraging listener feedback as to the success of these groundbreaking experiments. In the next decade, the commercial success of rock-based acts such as Nine Inch Nails would obscure the original intention of industrial music, which was to update the trance-inducing characteristics of tribal music into the modern age, but by all accounts Leichenscrei must be considered a compelling example to re-evaluate this artistic conceit.

One of the GREATEST Industrial records EVER........2003-05-13

In my search for the ultimate Industrial recording I've stumbled upon many outstanding masterpieces of experimental sound sculpture and machine musick, but none so close to perfection as this brilliant work of art. SPK was arguably one of the greatest Industrial projects of all time. That is literally no exaggeration. Everything about them embodied "Industrial" music and ideology in every way. Like their contemporaries, Throbbing Gristle and Einsturzende Neubauten, SPK were all about breaking down the walls of what the majority thinks of as "normal" or "acceptable." They were about chewing up popular music, then spitting it out in it's most mutated and convoluted form. It was about purification through obliteration. Their use of performance art shock tactics, stomach turning sound samples, and anti-musical, sound terrorism was not only a lashing out at society's confining bonds, and the futility of conformity, but a revelation of what REAL LIFE is. Not a "horror show or a freak show" as SPK put it themselves. It was about opening eyes, and provoking thought.

Leichenschrei is a breathtaking trip through a haunted factory, filled with the clanging and screeching of phantom machinery and disembodied voices revealing a shocking glimpse into human depravity. True Industrial music. True beauty.
This album is, with out a doubt, SPK's greatest. It's really unfortunate how they degenerated into an 80's pop band later on. I suppose losing some it's key members could be the reason for SPK's decline.
Other albums to check out are Auto-Da-Fe, a compilation of early recordings; Information Overload, their second best; and Zamia Lehmanni, which blends the familiar machine rhythms with a much softer and keyboard oriented approach prefiguring the dark ambient compositions of artists like Mortiis. Avoid anything else as it's bad pop music.

Fanbelt Algebra
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one hell of a grower

this band rocks

WOW

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Grey Area
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ASIN: B00004RDJE
Release Date: 2000-03-21

Tracks:

Reminder
Silence
Hold On Tight
Waiting
So Much More
Cannonball
Colossus
Gotta Get Away
De Heeg
Sour Grapes
Tennessee

Album Description

Ex-members of Warzone, Token Entry and Black Train Jack. In the vain of Husker Du, Foo Fighters and Green Day. Melodic Punk at it's best

Customer Reviews:

one hell of a grower.......2007-07-07

like the other reviews,i cant recall when i came across this band...but sure glad i did.fast but melodic hardcore that makes you fell good buy it

this band rocks.......2001-12-16

i dont know how i discoverd this band but they totally rock. i dont know what they look like where their from ar anything about them, but the music speaks for itself.

Grey Area Rules

WOW.......2000-08-06

I really can't remember how I came about this band. Maybe it was fate. But I'm glad I did. I'm kind of mad that they would compare this band to Green Day, these guys are so much more advanced than the power chords and major scales of Billy Joe. This cd finds its way back into my cd player every day at least, its just that good. The guitars are awesome, the drums are fast and loud, and the singer is someone even I can sing along with. Buy this cd if you are a fan of melodic punk rock at its best.

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Fantastic!

The Bridge
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental
Manufacturer: Mute/Grey Area
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The Scale of Ten

ASIN: B00000801K
Release Date: 2007-02-12

Tracks:

Attack Decay
Monochrome Day's
Day Breaks, Night Heals
Connotations
Fade Away
Interferon
Six A.M.
Hard Way in & The Easy Way Out
Perpetual

Album Description

2007 reissue of this Electronic Industrial album originally released in 1979 on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial label. At the time, both Leer and Rental were influenced by the burgeoning German Industrial sound as well as Brian Eno's ambient explorations. Thomas Leer later on went into chart success with Claudia Brucken forming the ACT. Nine tracks. Mute 2007.

Album Details

Electronic Industriual Music Pioneer, Robert Rental's Musical Accomplishments were Few but Well-regarded as Important Releases from the Era. "The Bridge" Being the Only Full-length Record with his Name on it was Recorded with Thomas Leer for Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records Label in 1979.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic!.......2006-08-11

This is really old-school electronica from the post-punk age like they do not make it anymore. Robert Rental and Thomas Leer were clearly pioneers of the genre and this CD shows their art at its best. It is remniscent of others such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, but in more melodic and also more electronic. Very hypnotic and bautiful.

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The bastard love children of Eno

In the Shadow of the Sun
Throbbing Gristle
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Jouney Through a Body
Heathen Earth
Part Two. The Endless Not
Mission of Dead Souls

ASIN: B000026ZKL
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

In the Shadow of the Sun

Album Description

Throbbing Gristle's 1981 soundtrack to the film of the same name made by Derek Jarman way back in 1972-74. Mute. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

The bastard love children of Eno.......2007-03-23

It took the rest of their generation a long time to catch up to the atmoshere laid down during this session. While the influences may be worn on their sleeves, TG fired the shot that signaled the entrance of idustrial metal into the fertile ground of ambient.

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Great Gristle
bet you never thought you could sleep to Throbbing Gristle...

TG CD 1
Throbbing Gristle
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ASIN: B000CQKY26
Release Date: 2003-03-03

Tracks:

Track 1

Album Description

UK pressing includes a 10 page booklet. Further details TBA. Mute. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Great Gristle.......2006-08-06

This is in my opinion almost accessible of the TG albums. I love it. It consists more or less of one extremely long but varied sequence of sounds and melodies that you will find recurring through their discography.It is almost ambient in parts and is really beautiful.

bet you never thought you could sleep to Throbbing Gristle..........2006-04-13

Very nice to see this back in print--it's a wonderful example of the softer, gentler, white noise side of TG--it still has a few vaguely ominous moments, but in general works just as well as a noise generator for inducing sleep. It's a bedtime favorite at our house, ranking alongside Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, etc.

This was recorded live in the studio in one take in March of 1979, but you would never know that if not told--it's layered and dynamic yet hypnotic.

It's one long track, but that is as should be. You should listen to the whole thing at once, though you certainly do not need to remain conscious for all of it.

It's a decent first TG experience for the uninitiated. If you like this, try Heathen Earth next.

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so many ideas, so little time
Uneven listening, but maybe worth investigating for some...

3 & 4
Dome , Bruce Gilbert , and Graham Lewis
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1 & 2

ASIN: B000026ZJX
Release Date: 2007-02-12

Tracks:

Jasz
Ar-Gu
An-An-An-D-D-D
Ba-Dr
D-D-Bo
Na-Drm
Ur-Ur
Danse
Dasz
Roos-An
To Spaek
To Walk To Run
To Duck To Dive
This
Seven Year
Atlas

Album Description

2007 reissue of this CD that combines the third (1981's Dome 3) and fourth ( Will You Speak This Word from 1983) albums from this experimental duo. Dome are Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert, both from Post-Punk group Wire. Features musical assistance from artist Russell Mills and by Mute Records regulars Eric Radcliffe and Daniel Miller. Mute 2007

Album Details

Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert Worked Steadily Together after the 1979 Split of Wire. They Released Albums on their Own Label Dome and this CD Collects the Second Pair of Dome Albums: "Dome 3" and "Will You Speak this Word: Dome 4." "Dome 3" is More Musically Structured Than Previous Dome Work, Often Borrowing Rhythms and Sounds from Other Cultures and Mixing them with Abstract Noise. The Idea of Cut-up Vocals is Taken to the Extreme Until all That's Left is Fragments of Words, Ramblings and Vocal Noises. The Final Dome Release from the '80s - "Will You Speak this Word: Dome 4" - Brings Together the Minimalism of Earlier Works and a More Ethnic Leaning.

Customer Reviews:

so many ideas, so little time.......2006-05-01

thoroughly enjoyable collection of playful yet serious music from the side project of these too-clever-for-school post-punk pranksters... nice textures, interesting loops, what should be throwaway little ditties turn out to be brilliant little masterpieces of songcraft and sound collage.

Uneven listening, but maybe worth investigating for some..........2005-12-01

...but definitely not for everyone. This is experimental stuff, so much so that music making does not seem to be a concern here, which is fine-the recording artist has that perrogative, after all. In the case of these two gentlemen in Dome, Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, we have two people taking the experimental edge of their former band, Wire, into this band and amplifying that edge. Wire had its experimental moments, and would occasionally throw out a sound collage on a b-side. So the contents of this album, actually two albums together, are similar to Wire's experiments if you take away the pop element of Wire. So this is experimentalism for experimentalism's sake, a noisy ambient, Enoesque outing. This album may appeal to fans of Wire for that, and as there are dance beats running through some of the tracks, one can sort of see this album as part of the sound picture which would form when Wire regrouped, playing dance music instead of the rock they had previously played in Wire's first incarnation. There is some distortion and noise here, maybe enough to refer to this as "industrial" music, but for the apparently shiftless chaos here, this reminds me more of a slab of krautrock, or some of Elliot Sharp's noise music (especially the first track). The mucking around here with electronic sounds and sequencer/samplers also presages a new development, particularly in British pop culture-rave/house music. Granted that it was Dereck May's and Juan Atkins' albums that migrated out of Detroit and Chicago to really kick off the rise of techno in the U.K./Europe, but Dome would appear to be one home-grown element over there that early on embraced the notions of sound textures with a dance beat thrown over it as a new music form. Daniel Miller of Mute Records also shows up here for some sax abuse, as does Erasure's Vince Clarke(track 11) for some sample goofery.

Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers

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Just short of the Dead Calm soundtrack original score
A SEMINAL CLASSIC
Transcendental...
unclassifiable but great...
Songs of Byzantine Flowers

Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers
Spk
Manufacturer: Grey Area
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Leichenschrei
Auto DaFe
Immersion Remixes: Full Immersion
Gold and Poison
The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle

ASIN: B00000741A
Release Date: 1995-12-21

Tracks:

Invocation
Palms Crossed In Sorrow
Romanz In Moll
In The Dying Moments
In Flagrante Delicto
Alocasia Metallica
Necropolis
The Garden Of Earthly Delights
The Doctrine Of Eternal Ice

Customer Reviews:

Just short of the Dead Calm soundtrack original score.......2004-09-08

After first seeing Dead Calm back in 1988 I was on a mission to track down everything related to SPK. After going through industrial to new wave disco funk I finally bought this and it's amazing. One of the tracks is used in Dead Calm and the rest of the music fits in with that movie's score. I just wish someone would release Graeme's score to Dead Calm on CD. In the mean time this SPK masterpiece will do. It still holds up after numerous listenings. True dark ambient music.

A SEMINAL CLASSIC.......2004-02-03

SPK was the electronic/industrial/ambient brainchild of Graeme Revell - now known for his soundtrack music for numerous films and television programs. His sense of composition and orchestration (and I don't use that word in the traditional sense...) which are apparent in his current work have been present all along, to which this recording, originally released in 1986, will testify. This music is played/constructed/composed with creative brilliance and genius - there are many contemporary artists that owe a great debt to his pioneering work, and much of what passes for innovation in this genre doesn't hold a candle to this.

Revell utilizes all sorts of sounds - keyboards, orchestral instruments, percussion, ethnic instruments from around the world, voices (including solo voices recorded specifically for this music, as well as altered recordings of choirs and altered and looped voices from primitive culture rituals), found sounds (ambience from a railway yard, clanking chains, printing factory noises, a child's swing, sheet metal) and recordings from nature (toads, crows), mixing them not at random, but with precision and skill and emotion, to form a cohesive whole that is nothing short of astonishing. The resulting music has elements of the sacred as well as the profane - it is darkness and light, possessed of a heavenly beauty and gut-wrenching power, subtle and overt. The loveliness of many passages will bring tears to the eyes - and a chill to the spine.

Some of the notes from the CD insert are revelatory - a quote from Wellesz (from BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOGRAPHY) portrays Byzantium as `...the centre of civilization...' for Europe during the Dark Ages, `...and it now laid the foundation for the music of Christendom through a fusion of elements, religious and secular, eastern and western.' The image is an apt one - this recording is itself a blend of sounds from all over the world, an audio lens through which Revell shines the light of diverse cultures and belief systems, illuming the mind of the listener. There is also a verse quoted from `Byzantium' by W. B. Yeats, which expresses some of the mood of this album:

`...by the moon embittered, scorn aloud
in glory of changeless metal
common bird or petal,
and all complexities of mire or blood.'

The instruments (include in that definition: taped sounds) on this recording are played by Revell - the voices are by Sinan (who also appears on earlier SPK releases), Jan Thornton, and the Choir of the Russian Old Orthodox Church of the Holy Annunciation-Assumption of Sydney, Australia. There are voices that sound like they were recorded in perhaps Bali or Vietnam that have been made into loops - and Revell has done this with great care, preserving the rhythm of the lines sung so that the layers he has added contribute to that rhythm and feeling, rather than clash with it. Several of the tracks have an obvious influence of the Balinese gamelan orchestras, as well.

The mood changes from track to track, from section to section of each piece - but it does so logically, never jarring the listener. It's easy to experience to this in a `trusting' way, allowing the composer/performer to lift the listener and pull him/her along on this journey. As some of the titles reflect, there is darkness to be found here - but there is also much light. This is a stunning sonic document.

Transcendental..........2003-09-15

Perhaps one of the greatest "unknown" recordings to be brought from vinyl to CD, this one will always be in my 'Top 5' list. Taking the listener around our world and beyond, it brings home the fact that Graeme Revell did some traveling to accumulate the sounds that find their way into this work (Balinese bell tree, Tibetan drums, African flutes, Choir of the Russian Old Orthodox Church...) This recording shows the limitless potential for the Industrial genre, and it conveys [for the uninitiated] why the genre is in fact called Industrial; factory horns, sheet metal, railway yard, and "child's swing" are some of the audio sources for this recording. This CD goes well with red wine, yet is probably best experienced on your own -- so that it will bring you into another dimension without interruption. The music is complimented by perfect quotes chosen for the booklet. To all the kids who think NIN is industrial music: please buy this CD!
Trivia fact - one the tracks on this CD was put to excellent use in Dead Calm, the film that brought Nicole Kidman into the public eye.

unclassifiable but great..........2001-01-04

Hard industrial metallic sounds mix with slow dark percussion rhythms and overtone/undertone melodies by exotic instruments on this album to create a haunting and disturbingly melancholic picture of life. Truly experimental, these compositions are not aggressive in terms of being loud or overcharged with sounds as some of SPK's other albums, rather, the music is soft and ethereal, as are the vocal parts, whether alone or choral. At the same time, it is not at all tranquil or soothing; SPK have infused this album with a sometimes kind, sometimes dark, always quiet kind of melancholy and some songs are almost philosophical, reflective in nature. In all its originality and because of its ability to transport the listener to another world, this album is in my top 10 of all time.

Songs of Byzantine Flowers.......2000-06-19

The original album cover features a detail from Gaudi's Sagrada Familia. Like that beautiful yet disturbing cathedral, SPK takes us where no band has gone before, and where no one has successfully sojourned since. Raw Industrial terror has become a relentless internal monologue through which the whole of human experience, both historical and spiritual, weaves in and out of focus. Not stuff you can dance to, these songs call out to the subconscious in subtle and intoxicating themes. Like the exotic flower Alocasia Metallica, we anticipate the hard industrial metal-on-metal but find in the end that it is our own flesh that calls out to us. A modern Industrial masterpiece, and a thing of beauty.

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