Guernica ( ja, , stylized GUERNICA) was a Japanese band formed in 1981. The trio consisted of vocalist
Togawa Jun, composer and violinist
Koji Ueno, and lyricist and art director
Keiichi Ohta. They are presumably named after the famous painting
''Guernica'' by
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
. The band performed avant-garde pastiche of inter-war European music, sometimes substituting synthesizers for an orchestra. They borrowed
futurist
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,
communist, and
fascist aesthetics to recall the European and Asian inter-war and wartime period.
Discography
*1982.06.21 - ''Kaizou eno Yakudou'' (A Lively Thrust Towards Reconstruction)
*1982.06.21 - '' Ginrin wa Utau'' c/w ''Marronnier Tokuhon''
*1988.07.21 - ''Shinseiki eno Unga'' (Canal to the New Century)
*1989.03.05 - ''Denrisou karano Manazashi'' (Regards from the Ionosphere)
External links
Official Site(Japanese)
discogs
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Japanese rock music groups