Volk (album)

Volk
Studio album by Laibach
Released 26 October 2006
Recorded Daily Girl, NSK Studio and Studio Metro (Ljubljana), The Instrument and Metropolis studios (London), Master & Servant (Hamburg)
Genre Industrial, Neoclassical
Length 58:31
Label Mute
Producer Laibach and Silence
Laibach chronology
Anthems
(2004)		 Volk
(2006)		 LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE
(2008)
Silence chronology
Key
(2006)		 Volk
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (4.8/10)[2]
PopMatters [3]
Release Magazine [4]

Volk is a concept album by Slovenian industrial group Laibach. Originally, Volk is the German word for "people" or "nation" but also Slovenan for "wolf" (probable multilayered word play together with the picture of sheep on the front cover and the concept for the album). The album is a collection of thirteen songs inspired by national or pan-national anthems, plus the anthem of the NSK State, a virtual state to which Laibach belong. The album is a collaboration with another Slovenian band Silence.[5]

The album's liner notes credit Wikipedia as their source for information on the national anthems featured.

The anthem of the NSK is essentially the same arrangement as "The Great Seal", a song on their 1987 album Opus Dei. Like "The Great Seal", the words are based on Winston Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.

Track listing

  1. Germania - based on Das Lied der Deutschen (Germany)
  2. America - based on The Star-Spangled Banner (USA)
  3. Anglia - based on God Save the Queen (United Kingdom)
  4. Rossiya - based on the post-2000 Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Russia)
  5. Francia - based on La Marseillaise (France)
  6. Italia - based on Il Canto degli Italiani (Italy)
  7. España - based on Marcha Real (music) and El Himno de Riego (lyrics) (Spain)
  8. Yisra’el - based on Hatikvah (Israel) and Biladi (Palestine)
  9. Türkiye - based on İstiklâl Marşı (Turkey)
  10. Zhonghuá - based on March of the Volunteers (People's Republic of China)
  11. Nippon - based on Kimi ga Yo (Japan)
  12. Slovania - based on Hey, Slavs (anthem of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and unofficial anthem of Pan-Slavism)
  13. Vaticanae - based on Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Vatican City)
  14. NSK - the anthem of the Neue Slowenische Kunst, also known as "The Great Seal"

Personnel

Album written and produced by Laibach and Silence, 2005-2006.

References

  1. ^ "Volk - Laibach". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r858483. 
  2. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/40794-volk
  3. ^ "Laibach: Volk". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/10459/laibach-volk/. 
  4. ^ "Laibach: Volk". Release Magazine. http://www.releasemagazine.net/Onrecord/orlaibachvolk.html. 
  5. ^ silence-zone.com. "Silence discography: Volk". silence-zone.com. http://silence-zone.com/disco_volk.htm. Retrieved 27 March 2007. 
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