SPK was an Australian industrial music and noise music group formed in 1978… Read Full Bio ↴SPK was 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".
SPK was formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, when New Zealand-born Graeme Revell (aka "EMS AKS", "Operator", "Oblivion") met Neil Hill (aka "Ne/H/il"). Revell was working as a nurse on a psychiatric ward at Callan Park Hospital where Hill was also working. Hill and Revell shared a house and an interest in the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK). The duo were influenced by Kraftwerk, Can, Neu!, Faust, and John Cage – they started playing their own variety of industrial music as SPK. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane the acronym SPK is variously given as "SoliPsiK, SepPuKu, Surgical Penis Klinik, System Planning Korporation and Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv". The band recruited two teenagers, Danny Rumour on lead guitar and David Virgin on bass guitar (both ex-Ugly Mirrors, and went on to form Sekret Sekret), on early recordings by SPK in 1979. In that year they independently released three 7" pressings: SoliPsiK as a three-track extended play in April, "Factory" as a single in August and "Mekano" in November.
Dominik Guerin (aka "Tone Generator") joined on synthesisers in 1980, and later concentrated on the band's visual content. In May they issued an EP, Meat Processing Section, as Surgical Penis Klinik. Without Hill, SPK relocated to London where Guerin and Revell recorded their debut album, Information Overload Unit, in a Vauxhall squat with the help of Revell's brother Ashley Revell (aka "Mr.Clean") and Mike Wilkins (guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals). The album's cover has System Planning Korporation with the initials SPK highlighted in red. In June 1980 they issued the single, "Slogun", with lyrics inspired by the Marxist manifesto: "Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace / Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health / Therapy through violence!" McFarlane suggested "the album's harsh, thumping sound appealed to fans of Throbbing Gristle and early Cabaret Voltaire". Allmusic's John Bush felt it was "(a) noisy record basically comprised of guitar feedback, synthesizer distortion and rigid drum programming". Other musicians working with SPK included James Pinker (drums, percussion) and Karel van Bergan (violin, vocals), who toured with them to the United States. In July 1981 in Australia, the M Squared label released another single, "See Saw". The cover depicts SoliPsiK with members given as Kitka (aka Kit Katalog), Sushi (aka Margaret Hill), Charlyiev (aka Paul Charlier) and Skorne (Neil Hill). Both tracks are co-written by Charlier and Hill.
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). After its recording they were joined by Sinan Leong on vocals, who had initially auditioned for a planned SPK side-project, Dance Macabre. Leong and Revell later married. In 1983 Thompson left SPK because Revell "wanted to make a very commercial sounding album which I did not". McFarlane found that "SPK had softened the approach somewhat with discernible synth melodies and dance beats coming to the fore amongst the noise". In August 1983, the group issued a compilation album, Auto Da Fé, showing SepPuKu written with SPK in red capital letters. It included three studio tracks recorded in 1981. Bush suggested the album was the "beginning of a more organized approach for SPK material, Auto Da-Fé presents an intriguing industrial-disco fusion, reminiscent of prime contemporary material by Cabaret Voltaire and DAF ... Although fans probably thought of it as an unconscionable crossover attempt, it's still quite experimental in retrospect". The three-track EP, Dekompositiones (also by SepPuKu) followed soon after. Its tracks were added to a later version of Auto Da Fé.
In early February 1984, just before his 28th birthday, Neil Hill committed suicide. Two days later his wife Margaret Hill (nee Nikitenko) died as a result of complications from anorexia. In March SPK issued another single, "Metal Dance", which was co-written by Revell, Leong and Thompson. SPK returned to Australia for a tour and recorded their third album, Machine Age Voodoo, in Sydney which was issued in 1984 on WEA Records. For the album, SPK's Revell and Leong were joined by Jeff Bartolomei on keyboards, Mary Bradfield-Taylor on vocals, Graham Jesse on saxophone, James Kelly on guitar, Sam McNally on keyboards and Phil Scorgie on bass guitar. McFarlane saw the album as "mixed mainstream disco-pop and sweet vocals with electronic experimentation (sort of like Blondie meets Kraftwerk)". While Bush felt it was "another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group's industrial past". The album spawned a single, "Junk Funk" in 1985.
Leong and Revell returned to Australia and added Karina Hayes as vocalist. They issued Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers in 1986 which provided a single, "In Flagrante Delicto". It was followed by Digitalis Ambigua: Gold & Poison in 1987. Allmusic's Sean Carruthers observed that Revell "was in a period of transition... somewhere between the industrial noise of the early years and his later soundtrack work". In 1988, the band issued a live album, Oceania... In Performance 1987 but disbanded during the year. In 1989, Revell moved into work on scores and soundtracks. SPK's track "In Flagrante Delicto" was used by Revell for his work on the soundtrack for the 1989 film, Dead Calm. By 1991 Leong and Revell had moved to Los Angeles.
2) SPK is an electronic / funk act from UK, consisting of Macdonlad and Myatt. Released the single "Easy" in 2004.
Note: if you are here for the Croatian band, please use the tag S.P.K. instead.
SPK was formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, when New Zealand-born Graeme Revell (aka "EMS AKS", "Operator", "Oblivion") met Neil Hill (aka "Ne/H/il"). Revell was working as a nurse on a psychiatric ward at Callan Park Hospital where Hill was also working. Hill and Revell shared a house and an interest in the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK). The duo were influenced by Kraftwerk, Can, Neu!, Faust, and John Cage – they started playing their own variety of industrial music as SPK. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane the acronym SPK is variously given as "SoliPsiK, SepPuKu, Surgical Penis Klinik, System Planning Korporation and Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv". The band recruited two teenagers, Danny Rumour on lead guitar and David Virgin on bass guitar (both ex-Ugly Mirrors, and went on to form Sekret Sekret), on early recordings by SPK in 1979. In that year they independently released three 7" pressings: SoliPsiK as a three-track extended play in April, "Factory" as a single in August and "Mekano" in November.
Dominik Guerin (aka "Tone Generator") joined on synthesisers in 1980, and later concentrated on the band's visual content. In May they issued an EP, Meat Processing Section, as Surgical Penis Klinik. Without Hill, SPK relocated to London where Guerin and Revell recorded their debut album, Information Overload Unit, in a Vauxhall squat with the help of Revell's brother Ashley Revell (aka "Mr.Clean") and Mike Wilkins (guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals). The album's cover has System Planning Korporation with the initials SPK highlighted in red. In June 1980 they issued the single, "Slogun", with lyrics inspired by the Marxist manifesto: "Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace / Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health / Therapy through violence!" McFarlane suggested "the album's harsh, thumping sound appealed to fans of Throbbing Gristle and early Cabaret Voltaire". Allmusic's John Bush felt it was "(a) noisy record basically comprised of guitar feedback, synthesizer distortion and rigid drum programming". Other musicians working with SPK included James Pinker (drums, percussion) and Karel van Bergan (violin, vocals), who toured with them to the United States. In July 1981 in Australia, the M Squared label released another single, "See Saw". The cover depicts SoliPsiK with members given as Kitka (aka Kit Katalog), Sushi (aka Margaret Hill), Charlyiev (aka Paul Charlier) and Skorne (Neil Hill). Both tracks are co-written by Charlier and Hill.
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). After its recording they were joined by Sinan Leong on vocals, who had initially auditioned for a planned SPK side-project, Dance Macabre. Leong and Revell later married. In 1983 Thompson left SPK because Revell "wanted to make a very commercial sounding album which I did not". McFarlane found that "SPK had softened the approach somewhat with discernible synth melodies and dance beats coming to the fore amongst the noise". In August 1983, the group issued a compilation album, Auto Da Fé, showing SepPuKu written with SPK in red capital letters. It included three studio tracks recorded in 1981. Bush suggested the album was the "beginning of a more organized approach for SPK material, Auto Da-Fé presents an intriguing industrial-disco fusion, reminiscent of prime contemporary material by Cabaret Voltaire and DAF ... Although fans probably thought of it as an unconscionable crossover attempt, it's still quite experimental in retrospect". The three-track EP, Dekompositiones (also by SepPuKu) followed soon after. Its tracks were added to a later version of Auto Da Fé.
In early February 1984, just before his 28th birthday, Neil Hill committed suicide. Two days later his wife Margaret Hill (nee Nikitenko) died as a result of complications from anorexia. In March SPK issued another single, "Metal Dance", which was co-written by Revell, Leong and Thompson. SPK returned to Australia for a tour and recorded their third album, Machine Age Voodoo, in Sydney which was issued in 1984 on WEA Records. For the album, SPK's Revell and Leong were joined by Jeff Bartolomei on keyboards, Mary Bradfield-Taylor on vocals, Graham Jesse on saxophone, James Kelly on guitar, Sam McNally on keyboards and Phil Scorgie on bass guitar. McFarlane saw the album as "mixed mainstream disco-pop and sweet vocals with electronic experimentation (sort of like Blondie meets Kraftwerk)". While Bush felt it was "another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group's industrial past". The album spawned a single, "Junk Funk" in 1985.
Leong and Revell returned to Australia and added Karina Hayes as vocalist. They issued Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers in 1986 which provided a single, "In Flagrante Delicto". It was followed by Digitalis Ambigua: Gold & Poison in 1987. Allmusic's Sean Carruthers observed that Revell "was in a period of transition... somewhere between the industrial noise of the early years and his later soundtrack work". In 1988, the band issued a live album, Oceania... In Performance 1987 but disbanded during the year. In 1989, Revell moved into work on scores and soundtracks. SPK's track "In Flagrante Delicto" was used by Revell for his work on the soundtrack for the 1989 film, Dead Calm. By 1991 Leong and Revell had moved to Los Angeles.
2) SPK is an electronic / funk act from UK, consisting of Macdonlad and Myatt. Released the single "Easy" in 2004.
Note: if you are here for the Croatian band, please use the tag S.P.K. instead.
Desolation
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Alcoholika La Christo Tous les jours je pleure pour toi Je ne veux pas…
allalonealaska If there's a hell That's where you'll be If there's a heave…
AnimalJam Close the maw This void surrounding me Starry gaze into a mi…
Ape Grievance number one This dogs day is said and done Keeping …
B.A.X. I found myself Out in the desert The only problem is I didn’…
Ballerina Remember who i am Memories still remains Fear come in to my…
BOOSTED P.S.I. I don't feel alive when I'm alone Sometimes I lie when…
C.Y.B.E.R.Y.A Haven't been happy for months Actually its almost a year Sin…
D-View I'm standing here across the sun I still didn't found a…
D. Lee Desolation Dude, oh my God Where are we? Oh my God, what ha…
Defiant A Darkened day over me Uncertainty and shame Brought by noth…
Desolate I sail towards the misery of human existence Searching the l…
Désolation Clenching upon my throat 'cause there's a knot in my…
Doobie Damn (Do me Doobie) Do you ever notice that when you're…
Down Royale Doubt the purpose and push the blame Isolate and forever tak…
Dumb I can't see through beaten eyes Bloodshot and pulverized by …
Dveyl No never get attached to of your heart No never get…
Dylan They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting t…
Elezoria Across a nebula of dust And fire-blazing galaxies Away from …
Enamored The fields etch a pattern upon the ethereal plains as…
Eshtadur Remember, remember The first of November The death of it all…
FALLACY A.D.D. I'm standing here across the sun I still didn't found a…
Future Holotape You release clouds of pollution Destroying to make it obsole…
Guillen You Cried When you found out that your love had died Forever…
Haloscript Show me some kind of sign I've been caught in this…
Imminence Hold your breath and count to ten Promise me it’s not…
Incert Coin And down here the silence wins again Wordlessly, I've nothin…
K.I.R. I don't feel alive when I'm alone Sometimes I lie when…
L.B.I.A. The scene where the battle took place Now only whispers of…
Lamb of God Spoken sideways and indirect Without a single word left unch…
Lucy Furr Days feel like years, it's the reason for my aging And…
mell-ø Dusty memories lyin' on the floor Faded pictures on the wall…
Midnattsol I wonder how it feels to be loved I wonder how…
Mondblut "They say that time heals all things, They say you can…
Morbid Theory I'll take this desolation The waste and unfulfilment Becau…
n.a.o.h. Desolate in my own desire to have you The lights blind…
One-Piece-Cake I don't feel alive when I'm alone Sometimes I lie when…
Ordeal In this world that full of witness So many people have…
Overthrone Read Between the lines There's no way back Cursed from the …
P.E.A.R.L. Haven't been happy for months Actually its almost a year Sin…
Peak Twilight & mell-ø Dusty memories lyin' on the floor Faded pictures on the wall…
Red Harvest These Tired Eyes Need To Rest But, I Am Too Fucked Up…
S.H.O.K.K. & Costa Pantazis Desolate in my own desire to have you The lights blind…
S.U.P. 3. DESOLATION 04:11 On escaping desolation that pervades all…
Sectors Over the mountain side I stand alone With a sword by my…
Semprus As i call upon the great destroyer The evil one crowned…
sergio michel Abominations Hardened hearts Flesh bots bent on reaching hel…
Sigh My mind's desolation, extreme detestation Total abnegation,…
Sister Suvi Clap clap one two Clap clap three four Tell me who the…
Skythrone Return to the Forest Where dream and sorrow Remember the n…
Spades And Blades ""tranquility emerges as the dead seep into this earth devas…
Stillste Stund Entlaubt sind die Zweige unter denen eine todeswunde Kreatu…
sup 3. DESOLATION 04:11 On escaping desolation that pervades all…
The Anahit Isolate my brain Don’t let feelings run through it…
The B.H.D I'm standing here across the sun I still didn't found a…
The Brave Is my mind playing tricks on me? Or is this all…
Today Is The Day Instrumental…
toopoor I'm mourning I'm mourning You pulled apart my seams Lost the…
Tremonti Open the sky, show me more For I've never seen it…
Vanha Desolation rules the surface now As the ashes fall upon thos…
Vistery Dig in, search for reason Your hands are covered in grime Ho…
Volcanova I'm standing on the empty dust covered floor, reaching out b…
We Set Signals I couldn't fight with my head so low My will to…
Will-O'-The-Wisp Dusty memories lyin' on the floor Faded pictures on the wall…
X-Marks the Pedwalk Crack-brained you devote a view You combine what happened to…
XRaidX There's a riot in my head. I see everyone is…
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