Chrisma/Krisma? Anyone know them?

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A few years ago, I found Chrisma's Chinese Restaurant for a fiver. Now I see that Hibernation is going for twenty times that on GEMM. There are some great websites with nice video and audio samples. I'm a fan, what with their Vangelis (through his brother also) connection and the matching suits (on CR at least). An Italian duo who could well be the model for Adult. in some ways, but with a sense of humour, Euro-flare, a dashing pop sensibility, and a dada sense of humour. And a bit more eclectic, too. So not Adult. at all, really. Anybody else familiar with them?

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Chrisma were a small sensation here in Italy, in the late '70's/ early 80's. One of the few local bands that was able to find a personal approach to new wave - witty, ironic and musically interesting.
_Hibernation_is good too - their following albums were tame in comparison, but still better than most of their Italian counterparts.
Singer Maurizio Arcieri made the headlines when he cut his finger during a performance - body art or freak accident? Nobody will ever know.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i got "hibernation" for 6 bucks a few months back - it's pretty solid. to me their stuff sounds like the logical pop extension of la dusseldorf and late neu! "gott gott elektron" = amazing.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

'chinese restaurant' has been on my must find list for a few months now. i heard it at a friends' house when i was a little loose and it blew my mind. i need to find out if it really was that good or if it was the er, looseness.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Audio clips (RA): http://mindlounge.mayancaper.net/
General: http://www.krismatv.net/chinese_restaurant/ (from here you can get some nice video clips)

Some of their earlier stuff (mid-70s) is quite prescient, and with a hint of proto-Italo disco. I like the looseness. "Black Silk Stockings" is very nice, from Chinese Restaurant.

Any other recommendations for sound-a-likes? I'm in Berlin, so it might be a tad bit easier to find this stuff here (maybe - I found CR in Montreal when I lived there).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Second "Black Silk Stockings" as a pick to click. Haven't heard anything but Chinese Restaurant, though.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Reissued at last by Universal Italy.

Some hilarious tv performances on Youtube:

Black Silk Stocking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkrYWnG28p0&feature=related

Many kisses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvsBc_rUkHo&feature=related

Gott Gott Elektron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJTbCEmohAk&feature=related

Black Silk Stocking is still impressive, though.

― Marco Damiani, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

These reissues rule. Am I the only one who's diggin' these? Sounds like a mutant hybrid of Slapp Happy, Neu!, and adult.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link

They're cool. Produced by Vangelis' bro, Niko, as well! (at least the stuff recorded at Nemo studios)

― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

RIP Maurizio Arcieri

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 30 January 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link

Ah, that's a shame. Any details?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link

seven years pass...

…and now Christina’s gone too https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/musica/2022/10/13/news/morta_christina_moser_krisma-369919232/

― donna rouge, Friday, 14 October 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link

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