Kirlian Camera

小简介

Kirlian Camera在国内可能算无名之辈，但他实际却是意大利electronic历史上旗帜性的乐团。Kirlian Camera是70年代末由Angelo Bergamini 在帕尔马组成，原名Suicide Commando。Bergamini十分钟情于超自然现象及神秘学，而乐团的新名字就是根据苏联人Semion Kirlian所发明的传说可以窥见尸体的某些肉眼不能看到的特征(比如：光环？)的照像机而来的。1981年发行了同名EP开始了Kirlian Camera伟大的音乐历程，在他的早期作品中主要以合成器Pop为主混合了一些New Wave以及舞曲元素，随着乐团思想的不断成熟，随后的风格愈向前卫靠拢。他们的作品越来越黑暗，进入了electro-gothic的历程中去，几乎每张专辑都会加入不同的阴郁风格，从Industrial到Ambient，从Experimental到Drum N bass。这一切都是Bergamini个人的神经质最集成的反应。而其他成员光荣的背景(有意大利另一黑暗团T.A.C.的Balestrazzi、Limbo的Becuzzi)使得Kirlian Camera一举成为同欧洲最著名的实验团。

The band really was born in 1979, called Suicide Commando, but this name was dropped for the existance of a namesake band. So, when Bergamini started to interest to paranormal phenomena, he knew about a special device invented by Semion Kirlian to take photos of the aura of the human body and from this took the name of the group, suggested by Mauro Montacchini.

Other initial components of the band were the keyboardist Fabrizio Chiari and the bassist Mauro Montacchini. In 1980 the singer Simona Buja joined the band and the group was completed.

The first live apparition was in 1980 at Teatro Cristallo in Milan (Italy).

Considered the Fathers of the Italian Electronic Music, the long career of Kirlian Camera started recording and sending 25 copies of the Dawn tape to the main Italian labels.

Contemporary, Montacchini left the band and he was replaced by Giorgio Vecchi. So the band records the first miniLP Kirlian Camera, released by Italian Records.

New changes of line-up in 1982: Fabrizio Chiari left the band to join East Wall, and his substitute is the polistrumentist Paul Sears, while Bruno Bizzarri replaced Vecchi.

Meanwhile some records for various labels follow (note that Passing Masks was released under the name of Simona Buja because the band was still contracted with Italian Records) and finally the first full-length LP, It Doesn’t Matter, Now, from which will be out two singles.