Borghesia


Borghesia is a Slovenian electronic music/rock music group, created in Ljubljana in 1982. The band was formed by members of the alternative theatre group Theatre FV-112/15 and Teater Performans. Borghesia created its aesthetics using the imagery of what was prohibited, tabooed, and repressed. Their sound is often compared to that of other groups in the period such as D.A.F., Manufacture, and Front 242, whom many cite as the chief instigators of the Electronic Body Music label used to describe such music.
Borghesia went on several Europe-wide concert tours, mainly in 1988–91, which were reviewed in large music magazines in England, Germany, etc., such as NME, Melody Maker, New Life Soundmagazine, and Zillo. They released four albums on Play It Again Sam, one of the more important indie labels, which were also licensed to Wax Trax in the US and Canada. Further interviews and articles can be found in the aforementioned magazines. Aldo Ivancic later formed the band Bast, and is famous in the Slovenian music scene today as a producer. Borghesia together with Laibach were prominent representatives of Slovenian alternative pop music, and topped the bill on the compilation albums Trans Slovenia Express, released on Mute Records. A Borghesia live show in Gothenburg, Sweden in October 1988 was the subject of a broadcast on Swedish national radio, on the show P3 Live.

Members

  • Dario Seraval, vocals, programming
  • Aldo Ivančič, drums, programming
Touring musicians
  • Irena Tomažin, vocals
  • Jelena Rusjan, bass
  • Andrej Mazi, guitar

    Previous members

  • Zemira Alajbegović, video
  • Goran Devide, video
  • Neven Korda, video
  • Bruno Subiotto, lead vocals

    Performances

  • Prisoners
  • Bodocniki
  • Lustmörder,
  • Ogolelo mesto
  • ''Borghesia''

    Discography

  • Borghesia
  • Clones
  • Ljubav je hladnija od smrti
  • Their Laws, Our Lives
  • No Hope, No Fear
  • Escorts and Models
  • Double Bill, split album with Click Click
  • Naked, Uniformed, Dead
  • Ogolelo mesto
  • Surveillance and Punishment
  • She Is Not Alone
  • Resistance
  • Message
  • 4x12
  • Dreamers in Colour
  • Pro Choice
  • 20th Century - Selected Works
  • And Man Created God
  • Proti kapitulaciji
  • ''Un Chant d'Amour''

    Compilations

  • This Is Electronic Body Music
  • Out of Nowhere
  • Trans Slovenia Express
  • Borghesia mfl
  • ''Tistega lepega dne.../On that beautiful day...''

    Video

  • Tako mladi/So young,
  • Ogolelo mesto/Naked city,
  • Triumf zelje/Triumph of the wish,
  • Nestrpnost/Intolerance,