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Here is the last of my Kina EPs I want to share with you.

As I said in the posts depending on this band before, Kina brought power, beautiful melodies and somewhat like “real” songwriting together. And that in a way it felt right for me, even when I was a 17-yr-old hardcore-punker.

Troppo Lontano is a hit that offers unequalled oppertunities. The two others tracks from side b, are different, faster and don’t have such hit potential. But as always: Check out for yourself!

Troppo Lontano
Grigio
Quando

Melodic Orange County Hardcore as its best! Their selftitled debut album is a must have. Full of catching melodies, rock’n'roll influenced guitars played by Rikk and Frank Agnew, straight, melodic bass playing by Steve Soto, and the perfect fitting voice of Tony Cadena, a.k.a. Tony Montana, who formed the often underrated and overlooked Flower Leperds after the Adolescents split. They were reformed in the 1990′s, but changed their name to Adz, maybe ‘coz they were no adolescents anymore. The first Adz album was recorded with the original line-up (Tony, Casey, Rikk & Steve, not Frank), but has no real great songs on it. But the second one “Piper At The Gates of Downey“, comes very close to “Brats in Battalions“. That’s remarkable, because Tony was the only left original member.

But back to 1981:

This is nearly the original line-up w/ Casey Royer (the guy who wears the selfmade swastika-sweater (yeah!) on the first LP) on drums. He later became singer for D.I.. Rikk Agnew was replaced by Steve Roberts, what I find strange, because I think the guy with the military cap on the cover is Rikk. Does anyone know what has happened?
They play three songs that were also issued on the second album “Brats in Battalions” in 1986. The versions featured here sound as they were recorded at the same session as the first LP, but there is nothing mentioned on the cover. Maybe someone who knows more about it could post some infos?

This EP came in nice dark purple vinyl. I think it’s a repress, because it has number 2056 on its back.

Enjoy!

Welcome To Reality
Losing Battle
Things Start Moving

I finally did some research and found this out: The Adolescents and the Adz are both (still) playing (again). You can find more Infos on the Adolescents-Website or on their myspace profile.

A short time after I had the great luck to hear Kina‘s “Questi Anni” (featured in the post before), I came over this release from Japan’s Voice of Angel Tapes & Records. Simple coverart that seems to be made in a hasty way of work, which stands opposite to the somehow well designed VOA-Logo. Strange! I wonder if there where any other releases…? I don’t think so, but I didn’t crawl the web for more info. So if someone did, please let me know.

As far as I know this is the only record that features the “Questi Anni”-Punkrock-Version beside the recording featured on their “Se ho vinto…se ho perso”-LP.

So that was the only reason for me to buy this record. The other tracks were nothing special in de olden days:

Instigators‘ “Full Circle” was on nearly every sampler, tape or record, around these days.
Flitox from France bring out a hectic, rudimentary kind of a hardcore tune combined with strange lyrics.
Political Asylum‘s “Olive Groves” was also featured on their “Someday”-Mini-LP.

So, once again I bought an expensive import record for just one song.

Instigators – Full Circle
Flitox – No Yogurt
Kina – Questi Anni
Political Asylum – Down Amongst The Olive Groves

Back in the late 1980′s Italian Hardcore was fast, loud, and had this special sort of uncontrollable power.
I think you know what I mean, Raw Power, Negazione, Indigesti, Peggio Punx, CCM, etc.
Kina were different and quite a phenomenon for me.  Their songs pass despair and lust for life at the same time. They had this power, they were fast, but they had a special emotional edge. Whether they were influenced from Washington D.C. Hardcore or from Italian Folkmusic or both or whatever, I don’t know.
With this tune featured here they took it to the extreme. It was the first time for me that I heard a political influenced hardcore band playing an unplugged, acoustic song. As I had a depressive period of life in these times (you know Weltschmerz, don’t you?), this was the absolute right thing for me.
When I hear it today it’s still nice, but it doesn’t give me the creeps anymore. Nonetheless this is still an outstanding tune from an outstanding band.

The B-Side features The Sphere. A little punkrock rumbler with a country-, folk-like drumming. Not bad.

Kina – Questi Anni (acoustic)
The Sphere – Proviamo Ancora

Take a look at the official website from Kina and Frontiera. You can can download the two songs there, too.
But remember my mp3s come directly from the old plastic!

This 7″ came with a big poster insert. Quite too big to scan (or am I just lazy?). Perhaps I’ll try it again.