Alamut

Description

Laibach is back with a new symphonic album!Laibach and A/POLITICAL present Alamut, a brand new original symphonic album inspired by the novel of the same name.The album was recorded by Laibach and the musicians who performed Alamut live in an ancient Crusader castle in Ljubljana in 2022. Among them: the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Human-Voice Ensemble of Tehran, the Gallina women's choir, as well as AccordiOna, a women's accordion orchestra supported by other accordionists, under the direction of Iranian conductor Navid Goharib.Alamut is an original symphonic work by Laibach, inspired by a famous tale from 11th-century Persia, told by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol in his eponymous novel published in 1938. The story revolves around Hassan-i Sabbah, the charismatic religious and political leader of the Nizari Ismailis, and founder of a fearsome military group known as the Assassins, whose name still inspires fear and respect today. Proclaiming himself a prophet, Hassan-i Sabbah wages a holy war against the Seljuk Empire from his stronghold, the fortress of Alamut. Bartol's novel, written as the Slovenian author witnessed the rise of fascism in Trieste, explores the mechanisms of propaganda.