Listen to Laibach's adaptation of a Slovenian folk song 'Hey, Triglav, My Home', as performed together with Boris Benko, Primož Hladnik, Severa, Tomi Meglič, Slovenian Philharmonic Choir and others at the opening event of the PLANICA 23 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. watch video on watch page
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LAIBACH today release the 8-track Love is Still Alive EP, out on CD and digitally (with the vinyl edition following on 3 March), ahead of the 2nd leg of EU tour which launches on 23 Jan in Lausanne (full list of shows here:www.laibach.org/future-events/).
Listen to / buy the EP: mute.ffm.to/lb-lisa
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Laibach is a music and cross-media group from Slovenia established on the 1st of June, 1980 in Trbovlje. The name of the band is the historic German version of the name Slovenia's capital Ljubljana.
From the start Laibach has developed a "Gesamtkunstwerk" -- multi-disciplinary art practice in all fields ranging from popular culture to art (collages, photo-copies, posters, graphics, paintings, videos, installations, concerts and performances).
Since their beginnings the group was associated and surrounded with controversy, provoking strong reactions from political authorities of former Yugoslavia and in particular in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
Their militaristic self-stylisation, propagandist manifestos and totalitarian statements have raised many debates on their actual artistic and political positioning. Many important theorists, among them Boris Groys and Slavoj Žižek...
Read more here: www.laibach.org/bio/