Sold Date: December 6, 2018
Start Date: November 21, 2018
Final Price: £22.99 (GBP)
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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, chosen by Laibach as it’s a well-known and beloved film in the DPRK and often used by schoolchildren to learn English. The group are joined by Boris Benko (Silence) and Marina Mårtensson on vocals and 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 President Donald Trump and the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un), as well as 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.

LP

Gold vinyl

Gatefold sleeve

Includes download

Tracklist:

1. The Sound of Music

2. Climb Ev'ry Mountain

3. Do-re-mi

4. Edelweiss

5. Favorite Things

6. Lonely Goatherd

7. Sixteen Going On Seventeen

8. So Long, Farewell

9. Maria/Korea

10. Arirang

11. The Sound of Gayageum

12. Welcome Speech

Barcode: 5051083138932

Catalogue Number: STUMM430

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