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LAIBACH
„Opus Dei Tour 2025“
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19:00 Einlass, 20:00 Beginn
🎟️ | https://www.f-haus.de/cms/tickets-kaufen
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LAIBACH have announced the remastered and redesigned edition of their 1987 album, Opus Dei, out on Mute on 10 May 2024, on vinyl and as a 2CD box set, which will include 16 unreleased live tracks from 1987-1989 and 3 bonus tracks: https://mute.ffm.to/laibach-od24
Watch the video, featuring edits from Victory Under the Sun (Pobeda pod suncem, dir. Goran Gajić, 1988), for the remastered version of ‘The Great Seal’:
https://youtu.be/Po0TC1PmNbQ
Opus Dei, the band’s first album for Mute, was mixed by Rico Conning (Wire, Pere Ubu, Swans, William Orbit) and the band’s classic Laibachian interpretations of Opus’ ‘Live Is Life’ (here presented in English as ‘Opus Dei’ and in German as ‘Leben heisst Leben’) and Queen’s ‘One Vision’ (reworked as ‘Geburt Einer Nation’) soon saw them emerge from the shadows as they garnered support from the likes of MTV and ITV’s The Chart Show. This mainstream spotlight, coupled with memorable features in the music press, opened up opportunities for the Slovenian collective that included their first world tour. Performances from the tour from London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and “somewhere in Europe” make up the second CD of the expanded remastered edition.
A redesigned cover (further refining the original’s artwork), plus an extensive booklet with photographs, artwork inspired by the German anti-fascist visual artist John Heartfield, and new sleeve notes by the cultural theorist and author Alexei Monroe make this an essential edition of the band’s third studio album.
Laibach formed in the industrial town Trbovlje (in what was then Yugoslavia). Founded in the year that the country’s founding father Tito died, the band rose to fame to become one of the most internationally acclaimed bands to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Before the release of their third studio album, Opus Dei, the band had been censored and banned in Yugoslavia, had embarked on the Occupied Europe Tour (which included 16 dates in 8 Eastern and Western Bloc countries), appeared as extras in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, recorded a Peel Session for the BBC and performed in Michael Clark’s dance company production, No Fire Escape from Hell. With no compromise, the band have continued to carve a singular presence with performances, albums, scores and, in 2017, a documentary about their ground-breaking performances in North Korea in 2015 was released. In 2019 they launched their interpretation of The Sound of Music, conceived during their trip to North Korea and in 2020 celebrated four decades with Laibach Revisited. An album of music from the acclaimed theatrical production Wir sind das Volk (ein Musical aus Deutschland) based on the writings of Heiner Müller (1929 -1995) followed in 2022 and the band announced recently that diplomatic negotiations are underway for a performance in Tehran of Alamut, an original symphonic work composed in collaboration with Iranian composers and performers. In April 2024 Laibach will perform their score to a new theatrical production of Bertolt Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards, by ErosAntEros. The performances run from 18-21 April at Emilia Romagna Teatro in Bologna before a performance at the POLIS Teatro Festival in Ravenna on 24 April 2024.
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