Laibach

Love Is Still Alive EP — Out Now

LAIBACHLOVE IS STILL ALIVE EP

OUT TODAY ON CD & DIGITALLY

VINYL ISSUE OUT 3 MARCH 2023

THE COMING RACE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

LAIBACH today release the 8-track Love is Still Alive EP, out on CD and digitally (with the vinyl edition following on 3 March), ahead of the Slovenian collective’s 2023 tour which launches on 23 Jan in Lausanne (full details below).

Listen to / buy the EP: https://mute.ffm.to/lb-lisa

This is the dawn of the third millennium of Mankind. The planet Earth, which we once knew as our home, is now nothing but a dead rock floating in space, destroyed by wars, pandemics and all the evil that men do. So is the Moon, which once served as the stepping-stone into the vast universe, but later turned into a refuge for the last of us. Now, the remnants of mankind are hurling across the Universe on a single spacecraft, carrying the lucky few who have been saved from annihilation. They are heading for Mars, where all life once originated. They might have lost their history and their planet, but as long as they have a glimmer of hope and a guiding red light shining in the darkness, they will boldly go where no one has gone before – as long as love is still alive. 

The Love Is Still Alive EP tracks the survivors’ journey through our solar system, a journey through some of the more ‘space’ music genres of recent decades. The EP is an extension of music created for the film, Iron Sky – The Coming Race (dir. Timo Vuorensola, 2019). Laibach’s music for Iron Sky – The Coming Race is scheduled for release in 2023, alongside a specially created video game.

LAIBACH – THE COMING RACE TOUR – 2023

23 Jan – Lausanne, Les Docks, CH
24 Jan – Rostock, Nikolaikirche, DE
25 Jan – Copenhagen, Bremen Teater, DK
26 Jan – Gothenburg, Pustervik, SE
28 Jan – Helsinki, Savoy Theatre, FI
29 Jan – Tallinn, Vaba Lava, EE
31 Jan – Stockholm, Lilla Cirkus, SE
1 Feb – Oslo, Marmorsalen, NO
2 Feb – Aarhus, VoxHall, DK
3 Feb – Berlin, Astra, DE
4 Feb – Leipzig, Schauspiel, DE
6 Feb – Munich, Muffathalle, DE

14 April – Zagreb, Tvornica Kulture, HR

20 May – Klagenfurt, Burghof, Klagenfurt Festival, AT

Tickets and further information: https://www.laibach.org/future-events/

Laibach formed in the then-Yugoslavian industrial town Trbovlje. Founded in the year that the country’s founding father Tito died, the band rose to fame to become one of the most internationally acclaimed bands to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe, recently becoming one of the first bands to perform in North Korea. In 2019 they released a Laibachian interpretation of The Sound of Music, conceived during their trip to North Korea and in 2020 celebrated four decades with Laibach Revisited. An album of music from the acclaimed theatrical production Wir sind das Volk (ein Musical aus Deutschland) based on the writings of Heiner Müller (1929-1995) followed in 2022 and the band announced recently that diplomatic negotiations are underway for a performance in Tehran of Alamut, an original symphonic work composed in collaboration with Iranian composers and performers.

LAIBACH recently paid tribute to Leonard Cohen with a reinterpretation of his pre-apocalyptic track, ‘The Future’. Described by MOJO as “Leonard Cohen’s mordant ’92 alarm bell, reframed in ice-vault techno rock”, this Laibachian version of ‘The Future’, originally on Cohen’s 1992 studio album of the same name, makes it abundantly clear that the future Cohen predicted is very much our present.

LOVE IS STILL ALIVE EP TRACKLISTING

Love Is Still Alive I (Moon, Euphoria)

Love Is Still Alive II (Venus, Libidine)

Love Is Still Alive III (Mercury, Dopamine)

Love Is Still Alive IV (Neptune, Oxytocin)

Love Is Still Alive V (Uranus, Prolactin)

Love Is Still Alive VI (Saturn, Insomnia)

Love Is Still Alive VII (Jupiter, Tristitia)

Love Is Still Alive VIII (Mars, Dysphoria)

Listen to / buy the EP: https://mute.ffm.to/lb-lisa 

Love Is Still Alive I (Moon, Euphoria) video: https://youtu.be/lQSqCvpAVQQ

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