Christine Plays Viola
Spooky Obsessions
Spooky Obsessions" is the third studio album by the Italian Darkwave/Post Punk act, inspired by stories of people at the edge of death. All lyrics live of the memories and the traumas suffered in life and the concerns that gripped our souls and minds. Evil, fear, obsessions and demons are all alive in our hears and minds! Christine Plays Viola is a band based in Southern Italy, dedicated to a articulated and nuanced darkwave / post punk. After appearing on several compilations and 3 self-produced EPs, in 2011 the band released a first album on the German label Af Music (deleted), which received good response in the darkwave scene, was played by DJs all over Europes dark clubs and got praise in a number of end of year polls as one of the best productions of 2012. Even Gothic guru Mick Mercer included it in its top 30 of 2011. An EP in 2012 featured a collaboration with The Spiritual Bat and was followed by extensive Touring as support act of bands such as Clan of Xymox, Chameleons, She Past Away, NFD and many others. In May 2014, the German label Cold Insanity Music released the second full length Vacua, an ambitious concept album inspired by the series of "Black Paintings" by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya. A limited 7" single was released on Manic Depression in 2015.