On a sidenote, new material from Laibach and Turmion Kätilöt
Laibach interprets J. S. Bach
Laibach, every Germaniac’s favourite not quite German but Slovenian super-political and awesome industrial/neo-classical/electronic/everything ensemble will be releasing a new record titled LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE. In 2006 Laibach performed at a festival celebrating the classic German composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s life and works, and now it will be available for everyone on CD or digital download. LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE is a laibachized (i.e. sodomized but a hell of a lot better than the original) interpretation of Bach’s composition Die Kunst der Fuge. The release will also be accompanied by a short LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE tour in Europe.
On 5th May, the CD will be available for digital purchase on Mute.com and later as a physical product on Laibach WTC Shop, which will be opened in May as well.
Visit LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE’s own page for information on the project, complete tracklisting and tour dates.
New material from Turmion Kätilöt this summer
Although the Finnish Turmion Kätilöt is far from German, their incredible music has some really strong ties to German industrial metal. In fact, I remember Greg once writing that B.O.S.C.H. is like the German equivalent of Turmion Kätilöt, so if you like B.O.S.C.H., (and chances are you do if you’re surfing Germaniac), Turmion Kätilöt should get you very, very excited if you aren’t already.
Turmion Kätilöt has now announced the release of a new single and album. The single, due for 21st May, will be titled Minä Määrään, and the new album USCH! will be released on 11th June. Turmion Kätilöt have had some major difficulties with their current record company Spinefarm, and the animosity between the band and the company will be solved in court. I hope everything goes well for them.
Tracklisting for the single and albums haven’t been published as of yet, but in the meantime you can check their website for information on the band and samples of every single song they’ve released if you aren’t familiar with them already. Trust me, you should be.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:23 am
I thought it was interesting that the download is available from Mute, but the page says the CD will be released on Dallas Records. I have no idea what this label is, but I’m guessing maybe it’s a sub-label of Mute or another sub-label of EMI.
There’s also another version of the album cover at http://www.laibach.nsk.si/kunstderfuge.htm which I actually like a lot more than the one with the image of Bash, but I don’t know which will be the official album cover.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Here’s the site for Dallas Records: http://www.dallas.si/
It’s an entirely Slovenian label, it seems. I hope the Laibach WTC shop will ship all over the world and not just Slovenia… I’d rather have the real stuff, thank you. Maybe Mute wasn’t very interested in releasing a product like this that won’t likely sell that much in a physical form? It’s anybody’s guess.
Yeah, I thought about the cover thing as well. I don’t know, to me it would seem like the cover with Bach would be artwork for the digital download, and the one on Laibach’s site would be the cover for the CD?
April 26th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Mm the other one is better. I read about the new Tk album yesterday, I’m pretty psyched about that they’re one of my all time favourite bands
November 28th, 2008 at 8:03 am
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