Guernica, a Japanese avant-garde band formed in 1981, consisted of vocalist Togawa Jun, composer and violinist Koji Ueno, and lyricist and art director Keiichi Ohta. The trio is presumed to be named after Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica. Their music was characterized by an avant-garde pastiche of inter-war European music, often substituting synthesizers for an orchestra. Guernica released their debut album Kaizou eno Yakudou in 1982, followed by "Ginrin wa Utau c/w Marronnier Tokuhon". Their subsequent albums included Shinseiki eno Unga (1988) and Denrisou karano Manazashi (1989). The band's unique aesthetic borrowed from futurist, communist, and fascist elements to evoke the European and Asian inter-war and wartime periods.
