Laibach Shares New Video For "The Lonely Goatherd"; New Album "The Sound Of Music" Released Friday

LAIBACH SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “THE LONELY GOATHERD” THE SOUND OF MUSIC RELEASED NOVEMBER 23

LAIBACH have shared the video for “The Lonely Goatherd,” the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming album, The Sound of Music, which features reinterpretations of the famous soundtrack. The album will be released November 23 on limited edition gold vinyl, CD bookpack and digital formats. Watch the video for “The Lonely Goatherd” here. Pre-order The Sound of Music here. The new video, directed by Sašo Podgoršek, features Milan Fras as the lonely goatherd, guest vocalist Boris Benko as the hunter and a synchronized dance routine that’s certain to capture the imagination. “The Lonely Goatherd” tells the whimsical story of a goatherd whose yodelling is heard from far away. He falls in love with a girl with a pale pink coat whose mother joins in on the yodelling. Laibach’s video, naturally, offers the possibility for a different interpretation... The band have also announced details of The Sound of Music Tour for 2019 and will be joined on the tour by guest vocalists Marina Martensson and Boris Benko to perform songs from The Sound of Music. Audiences will also able to hear other selected songs from Laibach’s repertoire including Also Sprach Zarathustra, Spectre, Sympathy for the Devil, WAT, Kapital, Volk and Laibach Revisited… See below for a listing of tour dates. The Sound of Music was conceived when Laibach were infamously invited to perform in North Korea in 2015. The band performed several songs from the 1965 film’s soundtrack at the concert in Pyongyang. The Sound of Music was chosen by Laibach as it’s a well-known and beloved film in the DPRK that is often used by schoolchildren to learn English. The album gives the Laibach treatment to tracks such as “My Favorite Things,” “Edelweiss,” “Do-Re-Mi” and “Maria,” here reworked as “Maria / Korea”(“How do you solve a problem like Maria / Korea?”). While the majority of the tracks on the album are from the film, the band also included “Arirang,” an interpretation of a traditional Korean folk song considered the unofficial national anthem of both North and South Korea (and released recently to mark the historic summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un). Also included is their own workout of the Gayageum, a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument performed by students from the Kum Song Music School in Pyongyang and a recording of the band’s “welcome” speech to Korea from Mr. Ryu from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Committee for Cultural Relations. Laibach’s groundbreaking performance in North Korea was documented by director, artist and cultural diplomat Morten Traavik in the film Liberation Day (described by MOJO as “a humorous, disturbing, illuminating and sometimes moving immersion into an anomalous communist mirror-world …”) which is out now via ITunes following its screening for Storyville on BBC4. The album was recorded and produced in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in Pyongyang, North Korea. LAIBACH THE SOUND OF MUSIC TOUR February 23 – Brno, Czech Republic – Fleda February 24 – Warsaw, Poland – Stary Klasztor February 25 – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja February 26 – Leipzig, Germany – Schauspielhaus February 27 – Frankfurt, Germany – Mousonturm March 1 – London, England – O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire March 3 – Glasgow, Scotland – SWG3 March 6 – Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel March 7 – Rostock, Germany – Volkstheater March 8 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Kulturhuset March 9 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik March 10 – Stockholm, Sweden – Kägelbanan Södra Teatern March 12 – Tampere, Finland – Pakkahuone March 13 – Helsinki, Finland – The Circus March 15 – Oslo, Norway – Vulkan March 17 – Berlin, Germany – Admiralspalast March 18 – Munich, Germany – Muffathalle March 20 – Nuremberg, Germany – Z-Bau March 21 – The Hague, Netherlands – Paard March 22 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg March 29 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Les Docks March 30 – Winterthur, Switzerland – Gaswerk March 31 – Milan, Italy – Santeria Social Club   Watch the video for “The Sound of Music” Watch the video for “My Favorite Things”   LAIBACH: WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC MUTE: WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | TUMBLR | SOUNDCLOUD