From REGEN Mag:
Two years after the Slovenian art and music collective celebrated its 40th anniversary, Laibach is returning with the announcement of a new album titled Wir sind das Volk (Ein Musical aus Deutschland). Based on the writings of German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995), the album collates music from Laibach’s theatrical production of the same name, which translates to “We are the People.” As if to explain the group’s philosophy over the past four decades, Laibach states, “Music unlocks the emotions and is therefore a great manipulative tool and a powerful propagandistic weapon,” going on to explain that the band “followed Heiner Müller’s own strategy of cutting and rearranging the material, taking his text and putting it into another context, rebooting it with music, in order to drag the audience into it or alienate them from it.” The band had a long association with the theatre and Müller, who had used Laibach’s music in production and had prior to his death wished for a more active collaboration, which ultimately did not happen until Anja Quickert – head of the International Heiner Müller Society – proposed a posthumous project based on the writer’s works. “This project finally brings together what should have happened a long time ago,” says Quickert, “The myth of the nation cannot be buried as long as ghosts undermine its foundation.”
Released Mid June 2022 by Mute U.S.
Tracks Listing:
01. Philoktet
02. Der Vater
03. Medea Material
04. Ich bin der Engel der Verzweiflung
05. Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne
06. Ordnung und Disziplin (Müller versus Brecht)
07. Lessing oder Das Ende der Aufklärung
08. Traumwald
09. Im Herbst 197.. starb...
10. Ich will ein Deutscher sein
11. Ich war die Wunde
12. Das Lied vom einsamen Mädchen
13. Im Herbst 197.. starb...
14. Seife in Bayreuth
15. Herakles 2 oder die Hydra
16. Wir sind das Volk nur durch die Liebe (Abschlussrede von Peter Mlakar, live)
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