ARTICA

The Artica project began in 1989 with a style close to what in those years was called Dark, Cold Wave and Gothic-Rock music. It took some years before the band could find its own musical identity. The fist expression of this was, on February 1993, the first demo-tape Marea, featuring 8 tracks with italian lyrics.
Good responses came from all over Italy but also from France, Germany and England. In 1993 the band participated in several compilations and, gaining the interest of Olivier Paccaud (Lucie Cries - Alea Jacta Est), appeared for the first time on a CD support for Alea Jacta Est sampler l'Appel De La Muse, vol. IV, with a mix of the track Preghiera.
The interest in the band increased in Italy and abroad and even more after the release of the second demo-tape, Dahlia (February 1994) . The number of the participations on ambitious compilations, such as `Gothic-Rock II' (Jungle Records) and `Death by Dawn 2 - The Avenger' (Apollyon Records), increased. On top of this in 1994, Mick Mercer included Artica in the third Gothic-Rock book and soon after came good responses also from gothic monsters like Bari-Bari (Mephisto Walz), Mike Van Portfleet (Lycia/ Bleak), GodKrist (Madre Del Vizio), Patrick Hendrix (The Breath Of Life), Dave (Vendemmian), etc.
Thanks to Jorg Kleudgen (The House Of Usher) Artica's music came in the hands of Joelen Mingi (Angina Pectoris), at that time manager of the german label Nyctalopia and in May 1995 the first album CD `Ombra e Luce', featuring 12 tracks (partly taken from the two previous demos and partly new), was finally released. In April 1996 the band refuses a new contract with Nyctalopia and begins a new recording session for a forthcoming CD titled `Natura', produced on July 1997 by the Italian label Radio Luxor.
During the releasing of Natura, the English label Euromedia produces the new Mick Mercer's compilation The Hex Files vol. 2 - The Goth Bible where the band is featured with the new track `Lucrezia'. One year later Radio Luxor prepares a tribute to Virgin Prunes and Artica appear with a very personal cover of "Caucasian Walk". After a long period of silence in April 1999 the band started a new long term collaboration with Decadance Records that brought to the release of the new album Plastic Terror. Mostly sung in english, this brand new and suffered Cd is actually the very best expression of 16 years of music: still Gothic, still Rock.
Discography
2006
Plastic Terror
CD/11 tracks
Decadance Records
2003
Ombra e Luce
CD/13 tracks
Decadance Records
1997
Natura
CD/10 tracks
Radio Luxor
1995
Ombra e Luce
CD/12 tracks
Nyctalopia
1994 Dahlia demotape Artica
1992 Marea demotape Artica
Artica also appears on these compilations
2005 The Dark Age Track: 7 Anni Rock'n'roll magazine
2001 Decadance Comp. Vol. 1 Track: Fade Away Decadance Records
1998 Anyone can be a Virgin Prunes Track: Caucasian Walk Radio Luxor
1997 The Hex Files Goth Bible Track: Lucrezia Euromedia
1995 L'Appel De La Muse vol.V Track: Sarajevo Alea Jacta Est
1995 Gothic Rock 2 Track: Sarajevo Jungle Records
1995 Death By Dawn 2 Track: Sarajevo Apollyon records
1994 Gothic I Track: Indomita AM Music
1994 Intimations Of Immortality, vol. I Track: Dahlia Energeia
1994 L'Appel De La Muse vol.IV Track: Preghiera Alea Jacta Est