Banda Magnetica

condition (record/cover): NM / EX
Red vinyl. With original innersleeve.
Banda Magnetica operated in the experimental margins of Italian post-punk, their name suggesting both magnetic tape and the pull of sonic attraction. In 1986, Giacomo Verde founded the music-theater group "Bandamagnaetica" with Flavio Bertozzi and Frank Nemola, with whom he performed numerous street performances, "acoustic decontamination" improvisations, and appeared on national television programs. He directed the theatrical show "Vita in Tempo di Sport," which debuted at the I.T.C. Teatro in San Lazzaro di Savena in 1987. With the group, he released the red mini-LP "Document'azione 86-87" for Attack Punk Record Edizioni in 1988, and the performance "Macchin'azione," which the trio performed in theaters and on the streets, a performance that, as Verde recalls, was always filled with adrenaline. Their stage costumes were striking: they were astronauts, visitors, and ghostbusters, and they invaded the city streets wearing musical instruments and amplifiers, creating chaos in the squares. Document'Azione-86-7 captures their industrial-inflected approach - closer to the electronic body music emerging from Belgium and Germany than to the melodic new wave of their Italian contemporaries. Attack Punk Records, Bologna's anarchist-aligned label, provided the ideal home for their uncompromising sound. A document of Italian underground at its most austere and mechanical.