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[[File:Linea-Vienesa-2 thhumb.jpg|thumb|Línea Vienesa at the Rock-Ola, 1981]]
Línea Vienesa were a short-lived [[:Category:Spain|Spanish]] group from Madrid, formed and disbanded in 1981, during the New Wave boom known as the [[Movida Madrileña]].

==Biography==
Línea Vienesa were one of the most promising and fleeting groups in the Spanish post-punk scene. An ephemeral alloy of disparate personalities, the group is known by a series of four concerts, including two at Rock-Ola, which obtained an excellent reception by the public and made a positive impression in the national press. One particular focus was the group's image - a theatrical and sophisticated look orchestrated by its singer, Mavi Margarida, with the help of couturier Jesús del Pozo and the painter Sigfrido Martín Begué. 

[[File:Linea-Vienesa concert-au-pachá-768x536.jpg|thumb|Linea Vienesa in concert at the Rock-Ola, 1981]]
The band's members were Ricardo Llorca (synthesizers), L. Ramón G. Del Pomar (guitar), Patricia Alvarez de Lorenzana (bass) and Mavi Margarida (vocals, drum machine). On stage, they appeared dressed in black and white or all white, sometimes embodying mythological and anachronistic characters such as Dracula/Nosferatu, Marie-Antoinette/Countess Báthory, a page/hussar. Stages were decorated with fallen leaves or kitsch accessories such as palm trees, bird cages, sculptures of mastiffs or a fountain decorated with flamingos. This imagery would lead the press to align them to the New Romantic scene popular in Europe at the time.

[[File:Linea-Vienesa-650x875.jpg|thumb|Concert at the Rock Ola in 1981. Photo sourced from lacontraola.com]]
The band gave a few interviews at the time, with the guitarist and founder of the group, L. Ramon G. Del Pomar serving as their spokesman, but disbanded without having released a single record. Their demo recordings would eventually resurface, however - first, a track named "Cangrejos en la cocina" appeared on a compilation by the Lolipop label entitled "Corazón Loco. 40 untraceable pearls of Spanish pop", and then in 2012, the Domestica label released all eight of the band's unreleased demos under the name "Remando en el Volga". These demos had been recorded at the Mario del Castillo studio at the end of 1981, mostly using rented equipment.

Minimalist by nature, these demos are a set of dystopian and subtly gothic synth pop songs in which the expressive and sensual voice of Mavi Margarida plays a leading role, aided by the composition and keyboards by Ricardo Llorca, then a piano student at the Real Conservatorio in Madrid and who eventually became one of the most prestigious living composers in Spain.

After the dissolution of Línea Vienesa, the members of the group followed different paths: L. Ramon G. Del Pomar became the programmer at the Rock-Ola, the legendary Madrid concert hall, which became divided between fashion, music and interpretation. Bassist Patricia Alvarez de Lorenzana formed several groups including Tráfico de Rubies. Finally, after having formed, with Ricardo Llorca, the pop-jazzy group Los Garrido, who released a maxi-single in the mid-80s, Mavi Margarida will devoted herself to interior design and artistic direction for the cinema.

==References==
# http://lacontraola.com/linea-vienesa/


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