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LAIBACH | ALAMUT DOUBLE CD BOX SET

£20

Double CD Box Set including 36-page booklet with extensive sleeve notes and imagery. Released by A/POLITICAL in collaboration with MUTE Records.

Laibach is amongst the most notorious and misunderstood music and artistic groups that have ever existed. A founding member of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst, 1984-1992), Laibach was established in a coal mining town of Trbovlje, Yugoslavia in 1980, today on the territory of Slovenia. The band was founded shortly after the death of Josip Broz Tito, an event that triggered a wave of separatist and nationalist tensions that led to the bloody Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001). The name of the band references the historical German toponym for the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, used also during the occupation of Slovenia by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. The place and time of Laibach’s origin defined their characteristic industrial sound. In 2015, Laibach became the first-ever rock band to play in North Korea, a country seen as one of the contemporary dictatorships, in a venture captured in the documentary Liberation Day. The group consequently does not ally with any political fraction, focusing instead on the mechanisms of propaganda that apply to all.

 

About the project

ALAMUT

Laibach

Alamut is an original symphonic work by Laibach, to be presented in Tehran, for which the diplomatic negotiations are underway. It is composed in collaboration with Iranian composers and performers and is based on a famous story from eleventh-century Persia, as told by the Slovene writer Vladimir Bartol in his novel of the same title published in 1938. The central character is Hassan-i Sabbāh, the charismatic religious and political leader of the Nizari Ismailis and the founder of a mysterious military formation known as the Assassins, whose name is still feared and respected today. Hassan-i Sabbāh is a self-proclaimed prophet who leads a holy war against the Seljuk Empire from his eyrie – the castle of Alamut.

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ALAMUT