LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE
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LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE is a concept album
by NSK
industrial group Laibach
. The album is a reinterpretation («the laibachian interpretation») of Johann Sebastian Bach
's The Art of Fugue
(Die Kunst der Fuge in German
).
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
by NSK
Neue Slowenische Kunst
Neue Slowenische Kunst , aka NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. NSK's name, being German, is compatible with a theme in NSK works: the complicated relationship Slovenes have had with Germans...
industrial group Laibach
Laibach (band)
Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...
. The album is a reinterpretation («the laibachian interpretation») of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
's The Art of Fugue
The Art of Fugue
The Art of Fugue , BWV 1080, is an incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach . It was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 fugues and 2 canons, was copied by the composer in 1745...
(Die Kunst der Fuge in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
).
Track listing
- "Contrapunctus 1" - (3:07)
- "Contrapunctus 2" - (20:52)
- "Contrapunctus 3" - (2:54)
- "Contrapunctus 4" - (5:17)
- "Contrapunctus 5" - (2:46)
- "Contrapunctus 6, a 4 im Stile francese" - (4:11)
- "Contrapunctus 7, a 4 per Augment et Diminut" - (1:21)
- "Contrapunctus 8, a 3" - (7:31)
- "Contrapunctus 9, a 4 alla Duodecima" - (8:26)
- "Contrapunctus 10 a 4 alla Decima" - (6:15)
- "Contrapunctus 11, a 4" - (2:02)
- "Contrapunctus 12, Canon alla Ottava" - (4:22)
- "Contrapunctus 13, Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapuncto alla Quinta" - (4:46)
- "Contrapunctus 15, canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu" - (5:22)