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band, little by little started getting

more and more stressful as well as

chaotic due to an external

campaign designed to damage and

even sabotage the activity of the

band.



Real propaganda in every sense

against us and totally based on

biased falsities would like to inform
neo-nazi and racist band.



Even from the beginnin of our

activity with our present name

there were inherent problems but

recently the "democratic hand" (or

at least presumed so) which is

hostile towards us has shown an

admirable determination in trying

to spread informations which can

harm us.



It is clear that we are fed up of

being considered "criminals" by

various political groups who flaunt

traditions of democratic struggle

as well as vast cultural knowledge

but are not even able to report

precise news about us, in fact they

choose, wich success the way of

pure defamation.



It is strange to think that all this

happens without any checks and the

first people to be amazed by this are

ourselves and our public. It is

strange to think that this "New

Holy Inquisition" is supported by

very notable entities such as the

large circulation media, but all of

this is happening and there are

no doubts about this.



The need to write this strange and

unusual communiquè is therefore

the result of the negation of our

most basic rights, among which the

right to free speech, since almost

nobody agrees to let us refute the

declarations about us, denying us

space in the media which is instead

only allowed to our opponents.



Let's look at a few examples... In

edition 17 of the German weekly

"Der Spiegel" on sale from the 26

April 1999, four pages were

dedicated to the Littleton massacre

in Colorado which happened in

spring this years where two students

called Dylan Klebold and Eric

Harris killed twelve of their school

mates and wounded a number of others.



One can understand the interest of

various media and information

organizations. What is not so

understandable however, is the fact

that a certain German sociologist

called Alfred Schobert, once

interviewed by Mr. Martin Wolf,

declared that the members of

Kirlian Camera go around blissfully

giving nazi salutes in public and

spreading propaganda on the

subject.



Mr. Schobert seems intent on

demonstrating that bands like ours

are to be held at least partly

responsible for events such as the one

in Littleton and makes false

statements in a major national and

international publication like "Der

Spiegel", which in turn denies via fax

the right to reply of one of our

external representatives who asked

for the possibility to refute such

statements.



The reason for this refusal seems to

come from the fact that several eye

witnesses claim to have seen us give

"nazi salutes" in public. This is not

possible, since a fact of this kind has

never occured, and what's more, the

use of the plural form would tend to

involve all members of the group.



It may have happened only in a

couple of occasions that only Angelo

Bergamini showed a "salute"

indicating belonging both to the

extreme left as well as the extreme

right, not to mention various

religious doctrines and in particular

the Christian one.



Someone might have noticed

something in the beam and hand

motion above the beam which occurs

when one wants to modulate the

sound of the Roland MC-505

synthesizer (which has a device

which is similar to the old Theremin

on it).



This is a confused movement which is

similar to the gesture in question, but

it is beyond any doubt that no nazi

salute has ever been given on stage.

What Mr. Schobert and his friends are

trying to demonstrate is very serious.

Very serious indeed because it is

completely distorted and truly

persecutory.



We are not here to apologize or to

profess a political faith, rather we

are here to formally ask that these

people be limited in their attemps,

carried out in bad faith; therefore

we are also here to claim the right of

the public to unbiased information.



Those who have been asking us for

for awhile to take a definite political

slance to calm the ever increasing

number of accusations and threats

(even death threats) against our

band. No, we are not here to take a

stance since the right to a secret vote

exists and every citizen can exercise

this right in a country presumed to

be democratic.



We would not like to discover that for

KC this right has been denied. Indeed,

we do not think that our political

beliefs (if they should exist) are

relevant and we repeat our intention

to demonstrate that an "official

position" in one direction or another

is not our obligation, and this should

not lead to us being considered racist,

as other self-proclaimed

"democratic" organizations would

like to happen.



Not long ago, on the 2nd of August

1998 we held a concert in Berlin and

we were informed that a person from

a radio station (whose name we still

don't know because of the usual

accomodating silence) had

encouraged the listeners not to come

to our show as we were to be

considered "neo-nazi and racist"

again.



Our singer-collaborator and friend

Nancy Appiah (pseudonym of Grace

Osei) who is dark skinned and was

born in Ghana doesn't understand

much about European politics but

she knows that nobody in this band

has ever shown her a lack of respect

or given her problems because of the

ethnic race she belongs to.



She has played with us live and

recorded with us in the studio, even

appearing a few times in our official

group line up, as photographs could

demonstrate. It is therefore strange

that nobody has ever noticed her!

Yey, at present, we are one of the

very rare European groups, in our

musical area, which works with a

"coloured" collaborator also when

playing live.



Maybe we are the only ones at

present. Why, therefore, do those

interviewers who ask us leading

questions about our presumed

racism, almost never remember

Grace and the fact that our in

"incriminating track" called

"Erinnerung" we sing lyrics by the

Jewish-German poet August

Stramm?!?



Let's say there existed a case of us

being extreme right-wing... But how

have we shown ourselves to be

intolerant, racist and anti-semetic,

since even our ex-guitarist /

keyboard player Paul David Sears,

involved officially with the band

from 1982 to 1985 was Jewish, as

was our ex-producer Allan

Goldberg who worked with us from

1982 to 1987...?!?



Could it be that they are all

masochistic?!? In KC there has

always been space for any race or

ideology without any restriction. We

have always demonstrated in a

concrete sense, how people with

different ideological views and from

different races can live together and

actually have a close relationship

based on true respect and friendship.

We have been one of the few to be so

active in this sense.



Therefore, we were a little surprised

by the anti-KC demonstration held

in Utrecht in Holland at the end of

October 1997, where we had gone to

play. Somebody told us that it had

been organized by the antifascist

organization "Antifa", but

personally we wouldn't be in a

position to confirm it.



The above-mentioned organization

may do it themselves since it seems

that wherever possible... they try to

sabotage our concerts, circulating

strange declarations about us via the

various channels of information

available today, eg. e-mail, fax, etc.

Clearly, we give the Antifa

organization the possibility to reply

or explain better and confirm the

suspicion that we may be part of an

extreme right-wing organization.



If we were to have this reply, then

we could be aware of all the

so-called crimes committed by us,

and if they were to be revealed once

again to be inexistant, then maybe it

would be the case to point out, even

legally, that someone is really going

beyond the limits allowed by the

law, assuming that at this point

someone still cares about what the

law says, as we are tempted to think.



Once again antifascist organizations

are threatening the peaceful

progress of our European tour in

Autumn of this year and already one

can see the first results: our

appareance at the Duer festival

(Belgium) which should have taken

place on 10th July 1999 was

cancelled due to fears about public

disorder.



If this were true, one would be facing a

veiled... threat, so we will try to shed

some light on this umpteenth little

alarming chapter. The fear to find

oneself in front of a worrying and

sinister enemy must certainly have

prompted the article by a certain

Fabrizio Marcheselli in the Italian

daily newspaper "Gazzetta di Parma"

published on 8th January 1998, where

one gets the sensation that KC are

actually, a neo-nazi band.



Marcheselli, after an interview

based on questions to Angelo

Bergamini, carefully omitted certain

points made by the group member

concerning three directions like

Babenko, Visconti and Fassbinder

(who they have never been fascists

and, on the contrary, have often

showed appreciation of left-wing

politics).



These points were of real

appreciation. Once again, the videos

projected by us during the

performances turned out to be to

worrying politically, with their

quotes of Tarkovskij, Pasolini, Leni

Riefenstahl, Liliana Cavani and

others, and by the various film clips,

including even a well-known top

model, probably considered by some

to be the reincarnation of Eva

Braun!



Recently, an organization called

"Grufties Gegen Rechts" declared

on the Internet that our videos are

inspired by the nazism and our band

is used to give "nazi-salutes" in

public (?!?!?). The fax-addresses of

this group are +49.(0)421.3777511

(Bremen / Germany) and

+49.(0)381.454310 (Rostock /

Germany).



We apologize to whoever has bought

this CD for deciding to insert this

information in what should be, in our

opinion "a normal means of

spreading music", but there was little

alternative choice since very few

people give the space to reply in, as

already mentioned. Maybe it's better

if ideas circulate and people don't

accept "the silence game" to which it

sometimes seems we are condemned.



We know that seldom, has a group

before now, opted for such a radical

choice and we accept responsability

and we will face the consequences,

however damaging they may be for

the existence of Kirlian Camera

itself. But we want our public to be

aware of what is happening and

finally know the reason why

sometimes they have to go home

without our concert having taking

place.



If they told you that we had measles

you mustn't believe them unless we

subsequently confirm it ourselves.

This communiquè therefore seeks to

represent a particular stance taken

and a declaration of war (not bloody)

against whoever is organizing the

latest inquisitions, and restate the

right to respect for any political or

religious orientation as well as

whoever adopts a position,



or to express the concept better,

"for who takes positions which are

not tolerated by the Modern

Inquisition". This war started a

long time before us. This

communiquè is a declaration of

adhesion to that war.