SPK LEICHENSCHREI LP 1982 RARE INDUSTRIAL Graeme Revell Lustmord Psychic TV

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SPK ?– Leichenschrei
Label:  Thermidor ?– T 09
Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country:  US
Released:  1982
Genre:  Electronic
Style:  Industrial, Experimental
Tracklist:
A Seite ((Lysso)) B Seite ((Klono))
Companies:
Mixed At – Groovex Recorded At – SPK/Side Effekts Studio
Credits:
Bass – Paul Charlier Drums, Percussion [Synkussion], Percussion [Metal Perkussion], Backing Vocals [Bakking Vokals] – Pinker Guitar, Bass – Peter Kennard Mixed By – Phil Punch, SPK Other [Text] – Lustmord Other [Visuals] – Dominic Guerrin Photography [Cover Photograph From Video By] – Stephen Jones Synthesizer, Electronics [Elektronik Rhythms], Tape, Effects [Treatments], Vocals [Vokals] – NE/H/IL Synthesizer, Electronics [Elektronk Rhythms], Tape, Percussion [Synkussion], Vocals [Vokals] – Oblivon Violin, Vocals – Karel Van Bergen Vocals [Additional] – Brett Guerim, Lust Mord, Margaret Hill, Rose (11) Vocals, Photography – Sinan
Notes:
Original release of the LP, credited to SPK rather than Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv like the subsequent issues. Full text on the front of the sleeve is:  Epileptoid Impulsives  Histeroids  SPK  Leichenschrei 
The tracklist didn't appear on this version and was specified only on later reprints. 
Cover photograph from video by Stephen Jones of SPK, Brikkwerz performance, Sydney, Australia, 6 March 1982. 
Recorded at SPK/Side Effekts studio, Oct 81-Mar 82.  Mixed at Groovex, Sydney, Australia, Mar 82. 
The catalog number is actually given as T-9.
SPK were an Australian industrial music and noise music group formed in 1978. They were fronted by mainstay member, Graeme Revell on keyboards and percussion. In 1980 the group travelled to the United Kingdom where they issued their debut album, Information Overload Unit. In 1983 Sinan Leong joined on lead vocals. The group disbanded in 1988, two years later Revell and Leong relocated to the United States, where Revell has worked as a Hollywood film score composer. According to Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, SPK were "at the forefront of the local post-punk, electronic/experimental movement of the late 1970s ... [their] music progressed from discordant, industrial-strength metal noise to sophisticated and restrained dance-rock with strange attributes".
In 1982 SPK's Guerin and Revell were joined by Brian Williams (aka Lustmord), John Murphy of Forresta di Ferro (aka "Kraang") and Derek Thompson (who later had a brief stint in The Cure and went on to record as Hoodlum Priest). SPK's second album, Leichenschrei (English: The Scream of the Corpse) (1982), shows Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv (English: Socialist Patients' Collective). 
[S.P.K, S.P.K., S.P.K. London, SePpuKu, Socialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, SoliPsiK, Sozialistiches Patienten Kollektiv, Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, Surgical Penis Klinik, Surgical Penis Klinik (SPK), System Planning Korporation]
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