“La música Pop es para ovejas, y nosotros somos pastores disfrazados de lobos” – LAIBACH
Agresivos, extremistas, totalitarios, brutales , nazis y genios. Así se ha llamado a LAIBACH, el apéndice musical de un colectivo artístico que surge de las inquietudes provocadas por la agitación social en Yugoslavia en los ochentas. Sus sonidos estremecen a la audiencia con discursos religiosos, políticos e históricos, con el objetivo de aturdir al individuo, para que se reconozca a sí mismo como parte de las masas influenciadas por un mundo de ideologías.
Lo mismo pueden tomar música disco y transformarla en una marcha militar, que un clásico de Bach para reconstruirlo en música industrial o el himno nacional de un país para replantearlo en una marcha fúnebre con fuertes tintes de auto-critica.
Sin duda una banda como ninguna otra, con un concepto de verdad y con audaz compromiso a su mensaje y propósito. Su influencia es decisiva para la música industrial, por ejemplo Rammstein los considera como padres, llegando incluso a imitarlos sin descaro. Ellos hablan así:
“LAIBACH analyzes the relation between ideology and culture in a late phase, presented through art. LAIBACH sublimates the tension between them and the existing disharmonies (social unrest, individual frustrations, ideological oppositions) and thus eliminates every direct ideological and systemic discursiveness.”
“Our only responsibility as engineers of human souls is to remain irresponsible. We cannot concern ourselves with the fulfillment of other people’s expectations of us. We believe that in art morality is nonsense, in practice it is immoral, in people it is a sickness.”
“LAIBACH practices provocation on the revolted state of the alienated consciousness (which must necessarily find itself an enemy) and unites warriors and opponents into an expression of a static totalitarian scream.”
“LAIBACH uses all expressions of history to mark this imbalance. This work is without limit; God has one face, the devil infinitely many. LAIBACH is the return of action on behalf of the idea.”
“In art, morality is nonsense; in practice it is immoral; in people it is a sickness.”
“The LAIBACH audience is any audience which accepts the extreme position of contemporary (post)industrial production.”
“We say that politics is the highest and all-embracing art and that we, the creators of contemporary art, consider ourselves politicians.”
“Manipulation, manipulation! To manipulate people, nature, living and dead inventory, words, ideas, things and feelings! Here you have the beginning of a new cycle which brings death to the human race. It is not the demon who will choose you – it is you who will choose the demon! God and Satan are innocent, guilty is the one who chooses!”
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