Released in six-panel Digipak featuring new artwork and new liner notes by Graeme Revell and quotes from William Butler Yeats, Stéphane Mallarmé, Comte de Lautréamont, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Victor Hugo, Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett and Egon Wellesz.
Recorded and produced 1985-86.
Originally released by
Side Effects in 1986.
Mastered July 2019.
Necropolis is based on the music of Adolph Wolfi, and is part of the Album 'Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles' released by Musique Brut in 1986.
Invocation (To Secular Heresies)
Instruments: Balinese bell tree, choir, orchestra, steel bowls, Tibetan drums.
Palms Crossed In Sorrow
Instruments: African flutes, claves, marimbas, Prophet synthesizer, toms, voices, woodblock.
Romanz In Moll (Romance In A Minor Key)
Instruments: bells, choir, orchestra, piano, printing factory ambience.
In The Dying Moments
Instruments: bass, choir, claves, drums, factory horns, sheet metal, voice.
In Flagrante Delicto (Introduction)
Instruments: cello, chain, choir, orchestra, railway yard ambience, voice.
In Flagrante Delicto
Instruments: cello, chain, choir, orchestra, railway yard ambience, voice.
Alocasia Metallica
Instruments: Balinese puppet gamelan, claves, congas, Javanese flute, Prophet synthesizer, toms.
Necropolis
Instruments: child's swing, crows, Gregorian chants, orchestra, piano, portcullis, toads, violin.
The Garden Of Earthly Delights
Instruments: New Guinea flutes, Prophet synthesizer, slow congas, sarah, voices.