Holy! Holy!

Bárbara - Holy! Holy! (1985)

“Bárbara was an obscure girl group from Japan that formed somewhere in the 1980s. The amount of information that can be found on them is very limited, but research indicated that the early members were Yuki (vocals), Kotome (guitar), Keiko (bass), Chisa (percussion) and Midori (piano and keyboards). Bárbara's existence was also extremely short-lived, so only a couple of EPs were ever made. Holy! Holy! is the first one and was recorded at Studio Dig in Tokyo on July 10, 1985 (released on a label known as City Rocker Records, which also sponsored other underground Japanese Gothic Rock/Deathrock acts of the time such as Madame Edwarda, Phaidia and Mannequin Neurose). I think this is one of those releases where the front cover artwork can be a tad misleading (if you were to solely judge from ” read more