Opera Multi Steel
Opera Multi Steel
2025 stock Opera Multi Steel was born during the winter of 1983 in Bourges, a city in the center of France. The band started off as a trio with Franck Lopez (Vocals, Keyboards,Recorder, Guitars), his brother Patrick L. Robin (Vocals, Percussion) and Catherine M. Marie (Keyboards, Vocals). They began to record demos utilizing a Elex Keyboard, Casio VL-Tone, Roland TR-606 drum machine, guitars and bass pedals. Layering organ-like keyboards over drum machine snares and a woodwind recorder, they cre…
MCMLXXXIII-MCMLXXXVII K7-Tapes Archives
The hidden cassette archives of France's most singular coldwave act, finally unearthed. Opera Multi Steel was founded during the winter of 1982-83 in Bourges by brothers Franck Lopez and Patrick L. Robin alongside Catherine Marie, and from the start they pursued a vision unlike anything else in the European electronic underground: a fusion of minimal synth and darkwave with medieval and renaissance elements, drawing on the gothic architecture and ancient poetry of their hometown as much as on th…