Laibach are best known for their cover versions of pop songs which have been rerendered in such a way as to reveal formerly hidden or unnoticed messages, often commenting on political totalitarianism or rock stardom’s own forms of dictatorship. This was done most successfully on Opus Dei, especially on their cover of One Vision. Named Geburt Einer Nation after D. W. Griffith’s classic film The Birth of a Nation, Queen’s lyrics are sung in German to a strident military beat. All of a sudden lines like “one flesh, one blood, one true religion” start sounding suspiciously familiar...
However the bulk of Laibach’s output is their own work. Their own early experiments with totalitarian ambiguity led to their being outlawed in then-Communist Yugoslavia; their name was made illegal so the band resorted to using their black-cross emblem on posters instead. To this day their work deals with similar ideas but frequently Laibach reference their own legendary status and tongue-in-cheekily play with the kinds of in-jokes a band accrues in over 25 years of work.
Laibach’s musical style has varied a lot over the years. They began as avant-garde industrial musicians, producing what could best be described as ambient noise but soon discovered the joys of the martial rhythm. Having produced a couple of albums of heavy martial industrial music, they began to expand sonically. Following the collapse of Yugoslavia their difficult but rewarding album Kapital included hip-hop influences among many others and NATO borrowed from techno while keeping the bombastic atmosphere. The next offering Jesus Christ Superstars came after quite a hiatus and it may have shocked a lot of people with its balls-out metal guitar riffs. The 2003 album WAT returns to a more electronic sound; working with techno producer umek has produced a slightly odd album of electro beats.
Volk was released on October 20, 2006, preceded by the single Anglia. The album contains 14 songs composed and produced together with Silence, inspired by national anthems.
2008 Laibach released new album, titled Kunst der Fuge. This album is the laibachian interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's work The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge). The majority of the material has been created already in 2006 and premierly performed the same year on June the 1st at Bachfest festival in Leipzig.
VOLKSWAGNER is the title of a musical project which was realized in collaboration between Laibach and the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra (2009). Laibach also cooperated with the composer and conductor Izidor Leitinger on this project, and it was decided that together they would compose a work which will in a specific manner interpret some of Wagner's better known musical motifs and combine them into a unified symphonic electronic suite.
From a formal point of view, the collaborating artists have decided to seek in Wagner the rudiments of modernism, which first through Mahler, Bruckner, and Debussy, and subsequently through Schöenberg, Berg, and Webern, developed into the core of the jazz music of the sonic experimentalists, such as Miles Davis and Sun Ra, and to upgrade them with the ambient electronic spectrum that has been developing over the last three decades. In addition, the suite will address the history of the 20th century – modernism crossbred with pop art.
4.4. 2012 a movie titeled Iron Sky was released. Laibach in collaboration with Ben Watkins as a co-writer and producer of the score provided soundtrack for Moon Nazi Invasion in Iron Sky.
Official Laibach website: www.laibach.org
Le Privilège Des Morts
Laibach Lyrics
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Qui vous permet decouvrir le monde sous un forme
A cause do role, la vecu dans la brassee
Vous demande logique comme un source de beau
Et les noirs autre allez
Allez! Allez!
Le vie dans la future, vous tournerai sauf
Role et signification de l'ensemble?
Le charge, le source je vais maintenant
Quelle est le privilege des morts?
L'amour, la verite, les nuits en lumiere
Mais je ne sais pas encore
Capital, de la douleur
Capital
Capitaliste
La mort
Quelle est le privilege des morts?
Ecoutez! Nous voyons la verite que vous ne pouvez plus voir!
La courage et la hontesse, la generosite les sacrifices,
pas au contraire nous allons!
Allez! Allez!
Allons la detruire, et commence
Quel est votre secret? Dites-le-moi, dites-le-moi
Capital
Capital
Capital, de la douleur
Logique, de votre enigme, je trouverai
Quel est le privilege des morts, exactement, dites-le-moi
La mort, la porteau est bloque
La porteau est bloque
La mort, la porteau est bloque
The lyrics of Laibach's song "Le Privilège Des Morts" convey a message that reality is complex, and it allows us to discover the world in various forms. It talks about the role of experience in guiding us towards logic as a source of beauty, and about the blacks moving on differently. The song seems to be questioning the significance and purpose of life, mentioning communications and the future. It then asks what the privilege of the dead is and wonders if it is love, truth, nights in light, or something else entirely.
The lyrics mention "Capital" quite often, which may allude to capitalism or the idea of material wealth. The song then highlights that the listener cannot see the truth, but Laibach can, mentioning courage and sacrifice. The song concludes with the idea of destroying something and asking for the secret, concluding with the lyrics, "the door to death is blocked" multiple times.
Overall, the song seems to be questioning the purpose of life and what the privilege of the dead truly is. It also alludes to the idea of materialism or capitalism and the idea that true beauty is found in logic and experience.
Line by Line Meaning
La realite souhait etre complexe
Reality wishes to be complex
Qui vous permet decouvrir le monde sous un forme
That lets you discover the world in a form
A cause do role, la vecu dans la brassee
Because of the role, life in an armful
Vous demande logique comme un source de beau
It demands logic as a source of beauty
Et les noirs autre allez
And the blacks will go elsewhere
Allez! Allez!
Let's go! Let's go!
L'ete les communications, peut-etre verifiable
Summer communications, maybe verifiable
Le vie dans la future, vous tournerai sauf
Life in the future, you'll turn around safely
Role et signification de l'ensemble?
Role and meaning of the whole?
Le charge, le source je vais maintenant
The burden, the source I will now
Quelle est le privilege des morts?
What is the privilege of the dead?
L'amour, la verite, les nuits en lumiere
Love, truth, nights in light
Mais je ne sais pas encore
But I don't know yet
Capital, de la douleur
Capital, of pain
Capital
Capital
Capitaliste
Capitalist
La mort
Death
Quelle est le privilege des morts?
What is the privilege of the dead?
Ecoutez! Nous voyons la verite que vous ne pouvez plus voir!
Listen! We see the truth that you can no longer see!
La courage et la hontesse, la generosite les sacrifices,
The courage and shame, generosity, sacrifices,
pas au contraire nous allons!
not the opposite, we are going!
Allez! Allez!
Let's go! Let's go!
Allons la detruire, et commence
Let's destroy it, and begin
Quel est votre secret? Dites-le-moi, dites-le-moi
What is your secret? Tell me, tell me
Capital
Capital
Capital
Capital
Capital, de la douleur
Capital, of pain
Logique, de votre enigme, je trouverai
Logic, from your riddle, I will find
Quel est le privilege des morts, exactement, dites-le-moi
What is the privilege of the dead, exactly, tell me
La mort, la porteau est bloque
Death, the door is blocked
La porteau est bloque
The door is blocked
La mort, la porteau est bloque
Death, the door is blocked
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igor apatrisan
so here come the lyrics: one of my laibach favorits
La réalité soit trop complexe
Qui nous permet de courir le monde sous une forme
A cause du rôle, n'a vécu dans le passé
Vous demande logique elle est sens de mot
Mémoire centrale
[Allez! Allez! Henri]
Les télécommunications, peut-être (?)
Ne vivra dans le futur ou tournerait sans fin
Mais la signification de l'ensemble
Ne change de sens je vais maintenant
Quel est le privilège des morts?
L'amour, la vérité, les nuits en lumière
Mais je ne sais pas encore
[Capital, de la douleur][Capital]
Capitaliste
[Capital, de la douleur]Communiste
[Capital, de la douleur]La mort
Quel est le privilège des morts?
[Henri]
Écoutez-moi, normaux*! Nous voyons la vérité que vous ne pouvez plus voir!
La courage et la tendresse,
la générosité et le sacrifice, par le progrès de notre ignorance aveugle
[Allez! Allez! Henri]
veulent détruire, est comme un cercle
Quel est votre secret? Dites-le-moi, dites-le-moi
[Capital]
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Albrecht
Laibach and Mishima - an uplifting combination!
GoyimScum
So obscure I love it. Kapital was their first record I listened to when I was 14 years old and still my favorite of theirs today being 37!
Saraiva Toledo
My favourite track from the Kapital album .
fandejjg55
Cette chanson est intéressante, mais je dois reconnaître que j'ai pas réussi à comprendre toutes les paroles par moments... ^^
Après je trouve que le texte est assez perturbant et pourtant il y a quelque chose de fascinant et d'hypnotisant dans cette musique...
En tout cas, c'est une musique plutôt agréable quoique très étrange...
Stephane B
je suis d'accord avec vous... quelque chose d'hypnotique dans la musique mais aussi dans la voix
Bastien
@Jules Zart De Godard, et non Chabrol ;)
Biser Angelov
Laibach in their prime post Yugoslavia condition. Writing history...
igor apatrisan
so here come the lyrics: one of my laibach favorits
La réalité soit trop complexe
Qui nous permet de courir le monde sous une forme
A cause du rôle, n'a vécu dans le passé
Vous demande logique elle est sens de mot
Mémoire centrale
[Allez! Allez! Henri]
Les télécommunications, peut-être (?)
Ne vivra dans le futur ou tournerait sans fin
Mais la signification de l'ensemble
Ne change de sens je vais maintenant
Quel est le privilège des morts?
L'amour, la vérité, les nuits en lumière
Mais je ne sais pas encore
[Capital, de la douleur][Capital]
Capitaliste
[Capital, de la douleur]Communiste
[Capital, de la douleur]La mort
Quel est le privilège des morts?
[Henri]
Écoutez-moi, normaux*! Nous voyons la vérité que vous ne pouvez plus voir!
La courage et la tendresse,
la générosité et le sacrifice, par le progrès de notre ignorance aveugle
[Allez! Allez! Henri]
veulent détruire, est comme un cercle
Quel est votre secret? Dites-le-moi, dites-le-moi
[Capital]
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Olivier Rosset
(?) = hier au soir
sinae D
igor apatrisan capital de la douleur is the title of Paul Eluard poetrys book