Loaf oh (volume)
| loaf oh | |
|---|---|
| establishment: | 1980 |
| category: | Industrial |
| Website: | http://www.laibach.nsk.si/ |
| members | |
| singing: | Milan Fraz |
| arrangement: | Dejan Knez |
| arrangement: | Ervin Markosek |
| arrangement: | Ivan “Jani” Novak |
| former members | |
| singing: | Tomaž host NIC († 1982 by Suizid) |
the volume loaf oh became 1. June 1980 in Slovenian/Yugoslav Trbovlje based. They represent the musical part of the art collective new one Slovenian art to its initial members it 1984 counted. Their musical style is usually added to the Industrial.
With the name loaf oh, the old, German-language name of the capital Ljubljana unwanted in socialist Slovenia, the musicians created consciously points of friction with the government.
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controversy
loaf oh is accused ideas regularly oriented towards the right. This is based mainly on the fact that hersing and appropriate uniforms carry, the similarities with the German uniforms of the 3 on partly German. Rich exhibit. That volume is often accused that the style of its music that smelling pool of broadcasting corporations of Wagners same. Loaf oh these reproaches always rejected and pointed out that fascism alwaysa guilty one necessarily and that they, in the name of the satire, became their own scapegoat. Milan mill, the singer of the group, answered on the reproaches:
- We are fascists, exactly like Hitler a painter were.
Loaf oh pictures of John Heartfield use and in their publicationsregard their concerts as political demonstrations. With interviews they answer with ironical communist manifestos and place an exaggerated demand for authority to look.
Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Wolfson wrote over it:
- Layman brook method is extremely simply, efficiently and terriblly susceptible to misinterpretations. As the first they absorb the habits thatOpponents, adapt all the seductive temptations and symbols of the Staatsmacht and then exaggerate them everything into the Parodie … Next they turn their attention the controversies topics of the fear of the west before immigrants from the east, the power plays within the European Union, the analogies between democracy and totalitarianism.
loaf oh in
Trbovlje the multimedia project „ Rdeči prepare history 1980 revirji “(red districts), which are forbidden however already in advance by the ruling powers. On advertisement posters the picture becomes „Black CROSS “of Kasimir Malewitsch uses.
1982 play the group their first concerts in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade. Loaf oh gives at that time an own name to each concert, then for example the last concert Tomaž Hostniks carried the name „Dotik Zla (contact of the bad one) “. In December 1982 he commitsSuicide.
As one to 23. April 1983 a concert in the context of the music Biennale Zagreb as well as 23 Skidoo and load Few Days gives, comes it to the eclat. At five o'clock is stopped in the morning the concert by force by the Yugoslav army and Croatian police, there one„The Future Continues “and a Porno projects the film one above the other, whereby Tito and a Phallus are to be seen simultaneous on the canvas. The volume must leave Croatia. Shortly thereafter a disk contract with the national disk company ZKP RTV for the first LP „Nebo becomes žari (thatSky glows) “closed. The contract is waived on the part of the company without indication by reasons. To 23. June 1983 has those volume their first television appearance in the political transmission „TV Weekly “. The occurrence of the group draws a prohibition of the name and more jedweder public appearances in Yugoslavia. From November 1983 loaf oh together with load Few Days go on on „Occupied Europe route “behind and before „the iron curtain “.
loaf oh (music), IRWIN ( painting , diagram) justify 1984, Sisters OF Scipion Nasice (theatre), as well assome sub-groups the new Slovenian art (NSK). In December this yearly give loaf oh despite the prohibition an anonymous concert in Ljubljana.
In April 1985 the label resident in Ljubljana publishes „ŠKUC Ropot “the first album of the group. Due to the name prohibition the album without mention appearsthe volume name; instead the unmistakable black cross the Cover ziert. In the same year „Rekapitulacija appears 1980-1984 “on that Hamburg disk labels „walter Ulbricht sound foils “and „new facts Akropola “on the British label „Cherry record “.
In the framework step co-operation with walter Ulbricht sound foils loaf oh in June 1985on the festival „new Konservatiw” into resounding the forwarding business Harry Israel in Hamburg up.
In September 1986 the disputed dancer Michael Clark loads loaf oh to an appearance in its „NO Fire escape into bright “- production with eleven shows in different theatres of the world in. The double LP„Krst Pod Triglavom - sound minute of a baptism (baptism under the Triglav) “to the play of the same name of the NSK is one of the most remarkable works of the group. Apart from power station „ohms Sweet ohms “ are gesampelt smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Wagner , Anton Bruckner , Schostakowitsch and Prokofjew.
1987 become the album„Opus Dei “for records published. It contains the loaf oh versions „of the beer tent hit “„would run Is would run “the group of Opus and „One vision “from Queen. Shortly thereafter loaf oh by the German Schauspielhaus into Hamburg are invited, a sound TRACK for the Shakespeare - piece Macbeth to contribute.
1988 covern loaf ohboth the complete „Let It “- album of the Beatles (with exception of the piece of title), and the piece „Sympathy For The Devil “ the Rolling Stones in not less as eight different versions.
1990 are published the TRACKs of sound of Macbeth. Rumor way becomes in the same year at one of Bertrand Burgalat produced album worked, a publication are missing however. The celebration of the German reunification the single becomes „3. October “(power station-similar Daniel Miller - Remix of the piece „birth of a nation “) publishes.
1992 appear the experimental electrical album „capital “, that at the time at that time however on little positive criticismpushes, 1993 publishes one a cross section of the first concerts in the year 1982 under the name “Ljubljana Zagreb Beograd”.
1994 commentates loaf oh with the publication of the Technopop album “NATO” the events in Eastern Europe and ex Yugoslavia and the policy of NATO - states. The album contains excluding Coverversionen, among other thingsof Europe, status Quo, Zager and Evans and DAF.
The CD/video home system - box “Occupied Europe NATO route 1994-95” contains a cross section by the two-yearly route that volume, including the appearances in Sarajevo to 20. und AM 21. November 1995.
“Jesus ChristianSuperstar " of 1996 is layman brook version of Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical from the 70ern. With the album a route is connected again. After the end of the route the group plays together with the Slovenian Philharmonic Concert Hall orchestra and the academic choir “clay/tone Tomšič” on the opening of theEuropean culture monthly in Ljubljana. Marko Letonja directed orchestrierte versions of early material that volume. The Songs is orchestriert of Uros Rojko, Aldo Kumar and members of loaf oh. Since it comes too controversy-purely within the orchestra, loaf oh any use of the video and clay/tone material is forbidden.
The 1997 published CD with the title „M.B. December 21, 1984 “contains photographs of different concerts of the yearly 1985.
2002 become the CD „The John Peel session “on strand Fruit record, which label of the radio DJs publishes; 6 songs, which in 2 sessions 1985, are contained and 1986 were taken up.
2003 announces themselves loaf oh with the album „WADES (incoming goods of acres Time) “back. End of 2004 the Best of-double-CD appears „Anthems “and 2 DVDs, those the music videos that volume, the concert „of the Occupied Europe NATO route 1994-95 “and the report „A film FromSlovenia “contain.
At present work loaf oh on a revision „of the art of the joint “from Johann Sebastian brook. Uraufgeführt becomes this with „the concert for cross chess and four chess players “at the 1. June 2006 in brook place of birth Leipzig. Starting from end of 2006 are a furtherAlbum and different DVDs to be published. Among them with the film „Divided States OF America “also a report over layman brook America route 2004.
subversive Cover versions
loaf oh are admit for their Cover versions, which often changes the original statement text in subversive kind. Soloaf oh on the album if “Opus Dei “the classical author the volumes Opus coverten “would run is would run “and changed the normally merry Song to a dark, sinistren military march.
A further well-known piece is the Cover version of Queens One vision. Like also“Is would run “exposes the loaf oh interpretations the” kryptofaschistischen “courses of the Popmusik by increased height, in particular with the piece from Queen led above all (on German sung) the text would run to fascism reproaches:
- A meat, blood,
- a true faith.
- A race and a dream,
- a strong will.
- Thus, and give me your
- hearts, I hand me your
- hands wait.
- There is only one direction:
- an earth and a people.
- An example.
The text however was translated simply only word by word by the original:
- One flesh, one bone,
- One true religion,
- Onerace, one hope,
- One material decision
- so give ME your hands
- Give ME your hearts
- I'm ready
- There's only one direction
- One world, one nation,
- Yeah one vision.
Thus each reproach drops back approximately loaf oh to Queen and/or the Popmusik as a whole. This subversive tacticsbeside meeting with hostility also often acknowledgment brought in, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek for them stated even that they would have played an important role during the democratic development process of Slovenia.
figurative art
although loaf oh primarily a group of music are, have they nevertheless, straight in thatTime before NSK, also within other ranges worked. One of the most important work is the MT 84 memorandum (1984). A picture of a black cross, which in the time, in which the name was forbidden loaf oh by the Yugoslav government, when means of publicity served.
Diskografie
- loaf oh (SKUC/Ropot, 1985),
- Rekapitulacija 1980-1984 (walter Ulbricht sound foils, 1985),
- again Konservatiw (Cold jump records, 1985),
- new facts Akropola (Cherry talk, 1985),
- The Occupied Europe route (simmer Effects Rec., 1986),
- Opus Dei (records, 1987),
- Slovenska Akropola (Ropot, 1987),
- Krst Pod Triglavom Baptism (walter Ulbricht sound foils,1987)
- Let it (records, 1988),
- Macbeth (records, 1990),
- Sympathy for the Devil (records, 1990),
- capital (records, 1992),
- Ljubljana Zagreb Beograd (The Grey AREA/records, 1993),
- NATO (records, 1994),
- Occupied Europe NATO route 1994-95 (CD and video home system) (records, 1996),
- Jesus ChristianSuperstar (The Grey AREA/records, 1996),
- MT December 1984 (records, 1997),
- loaf oh 1999 Reissue (Nika - NSK Recordings, 1999),
- new facts Akropola Reissue (Nika - NSK Recordings, 2002),
- Rekapitulacija Reissue (Nika - NSK Recordings, 2002),
- The John Peel session (strand Fruit, 2002),
- again Konservatiw Reissue(Cold jump records, 2002),
- WADE (records, 2003),
- to Anthems (records, 2004)
DVDs:
- The video - wade to EPK (records, 2004),
- A film From Slovenia - Occupied Europe NATO route 1994-95 (records, 2004)
literature
- A. Monroe, Interrogation Machine - loaf oh and NSK, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology press, 2005.ISBN 0262633159 (English)
- A. Monroe, Pluralni Monolit. Loaf oh in NSK, Maska, Ljubljana, 2003. ISBN 9619107837 (Slovenian)
- Inke Arns, new one Slovenian art (NSK) - an analysis of their artistic strategies in the context of the 1980er years in Yugoslavia, Ljubljana,2002.ISBN 3936919518 (German)
