Laibach

Ceci N'est Pas Un Concert

 

2014: Laibach, Hong Kong, Umbrellas.

2019: Teargas, Hong Kong, Laibach.

 

Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. Six years ago, Laibach brought us the New Cultural Revolution, and since then things can never be the same. An idea mutated, became bullet-proof. A threshold crossed, spilling over en masse and spreading like wildfire. Now, as fate would have it, Laibach will be revisiting Hong Kong on 22nd January 2020.

 

Tomorrow is cancelled. The new epoch belongs to the determined. The time is now. With materials from Also Sprach Zarathustra, Laibach Revisited and The Iron Sky – the Coming Race, Laibach will also be performing for Hong Kong their reinterpretations of The Sound Of Music - songs which were debuted in DPRK – drawing from a film that was based in an era on the cusp of one of the darkest episodes of recent human history, a story of flight from Das Dritte Reich invasion. These very songs were once an aegis to transcend and obfuscate that horror. With the myriad grotesque and nightmarish situations that face us in this strange and uncomfortable moment in time, we require strange and uncomfortable art made by those who have empathy and understanding. With The Sound Of Music, Laibach comes to us, holding up a mirror to a riven world. What happened in Hong Kong, stayed in Hong Kong. It is now up to us to make tomorrow happen.

 

 

The Sound Of Music, Laibach live in Hong Kong, 22nd January, 2020

Chan Shu Kui City Hall (North Point Welfare Association), 210 Java Road, North Point, HK.

 

世之將亡音盡調，水必曲折更無言

 

貳零壹肆：拉爸。香江。雨傘矣。

貳零壹玖：煙淚。香江。拉爸兮。

 

山不可以無泉。石不可以無苔。革焉可無命！陸年之先，拉爸遠道攜來一場文化之新革命，別有深思，令人猛省。石火之一敲，電光之一瞥，非槍彈之所能阻抗，理念也。 今緣之所至，決於貳零貳零年壹月貳拾貳日香江再敘，必有兵刃。此乃古今一因一果必然之數也！

明日歸舊消亡，誠意正心之旨來定所未到之春秋。時當下兮。拉爸將於香江奏響其《查拉圖斯特拉如是說》、《拉爸再訪》及《鐵幕蒼穹-貳》，抽象律成，更添巨著《樂之聲韻》，率首禮於朝鮮耶。其出之處乃為天地窮蒼傾頹爭端之時，劫數深邃之刻。第三帝國之幽暗襲世，天下之滅頂關頭矣。如詞如曲如詩如賦，以其韻音，闖其藩籬，烏能窺其閫奧，蓋勝驚惶。惟時松風無韻，靜夜寂寥，素月流輝，顧影蕭然。顛沛流離，人與人之相殘害猶是也。何處非血跡所渲染，淚痕所加深浸漬。非以不凡之念、之悲、之惑、之情操而馳以道破之。而《樂之聲韻》，拉爸以恥治小人，舉鏡照妖，痛之一擊，維尼知白處有黑，藍中帶黃，必驚心駭目。人望香江，痛可忍，而癢不可忍。苦可耐，而酸不可耐。嗚呼，陰霾纏擾香江。惟吾輩等化腐臭為神奇可開闢明天矣。

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《樂之聲韻》，拉爸香江之敘，貳零貳零年壹月貳拾貳日七時恭候上賓，八時冚家入席

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