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Laibach and A/POLITICAL present Alamut - a brandnew album of original symphonic work based on the
novel of the same name - released on double vinyl
and CD box set via Mute.
The album was recorded by Laibach and the
musicians who performed Alamut live at a former
Crusader castle in Ljubljana in 2022. The musicians
involved include the RTV Slovenia Symphony
Orchestra, the Human-Voice Ensemble vocal
group from Tehran, the Gallina Women’s Choir, and
AccordiOna, a women’s accordion orchestra backed
by additional accordion players, conducted by Iranian
conductor Navid Goharib.
Alamut is an original symphonic work by Laibach
based on a famous story from eleventh-century
Persia, as told by the Slovene writer Vladimir Bartol
in his novel of the same title published in 1938. The
central character is Hassan-i Sabbāh, the charismatic
religious and political leader of the Nizari Ismailis
and the founder of a mysterious military formation
known as the Assassins, whose name is still feared
and respected today. Hassan-i Sabbāh is a selfproclaimed prophet who leads a holy war against the
Seljuk Empire from his eyrie – the castle of Alamut.
Alamut looked at mechanisms of propaganda at the
time when Bartol, a Slovenian author, witnessed the
rise of Fascism in Trieste, Italy, where he lived.
In Laibach’s Alamut, the ideas of radical nihilism
interweave with the classical Persian poetry of Omar
Khayyam, the sensual verses of Mahsati Ganjavi
blend with minimalist orchestral colours derived from
Iranian tradition. Hassan-i Sabbāh’s propaganda
mechanisms are echoed in the industrial principle of
the workings of the orchestra and Laibach’s unique
sound.
...OUT 9 MAY 2025!
PLEASE NOTE:
>>>If you would like your pre-orders (with different release dates) shipped separately—please order them separately.
If not, we will happily ship all your items, when the last title is released!
xo-tLc
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