Presumably named after the famous painting Guernica

Guernica (painting)

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War...

 by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

, this Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese trio from the 1980s specializes in avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 music in a retro 1920's and 30's cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...

 style. Their early recordings are primarily electronic (using synthesizers instead of traditional acoustic instruments) but their later works are performed by a live orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

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The primary members of Guernica are:

• Jun Togawa
  Togawa Jun
  Jun Togawa is a Japanese singer, musician and actress.After gaining attention as an actress and as guest singer for the Halmens, she began her professional music career in the early 1980s as an idol singer....
  
   - vocalist
• Koji Ueno
  Koji Ueno
  is an award-winning Japanese composer, musician, arranger and keyboardist. He is noted for his unique style of music.He graduated from Nihon University's department of music at its faculty of art, and in 1978, began his career in music with his first music ensemble, 8&1/2, after which he worked...
  
   - composer, pianist and violinist
• Keiichi Ohta - lyricist and art director

Discography

• 1982.06.21 - Kaizou eno Yakudou (Throbbing to the Alteration)
• 1982.06.21 - Ginrin wa Utau c/w Marronnier Tokuhon
• 1988.07.21 - Shinseiki eno Unga (Canal to the New Century)
• 1989.03.05 - Denrisou karano Manazashi (The Regard from Ionosphere)