Tracklist:
1. Sodba Veka (The Judgement Of The Century) [4:34]
2. Ti, Ki Izzivas (You, Who Are Challenging) [7:11]
3. Sila/Dokumenti (The Force/Documents) [9:09]
4. Sredi Bojev (In The Midst Of Struggles) [11:25]
5. Nova Akropola (The New Acropolis) [7:30]
6. Dokumenti II (Documents II) [5:33]
7. Tito [2:48]
8. Dokumenti III (Documents III) [5:05]
9. Dokumenti IV (Documents IV) [2:45]

All tracks written and performed by Laibach, except track 7, written and performed by Josip Broz Tito
Tracks 1 to 4 recorded live on 21 December 1984 at Malci Belic Hall, Ljubljana
Tracks 5 to 7 recorded live on 26 April 1985 at Kulusic, Zagreb
Both concerts were taped by Ico Vidmar and Radio Student on an Uher 260 AV recorder
Tracks 8 and 9 werere recorded live on 18 February 1985 at Berlin Atonat Festival on a cassette deck by Jack Balchin
Digitally remastered and edited by Desktop Music, Ljubljana
Published by Complete Music
Made in the EU
Distributed by the local BMG company

QUOTE

In mid-1983, the political authorities of the Republic of Slovenia - then still part of the Yugoslav federation - invoked the city of Ljubljana's by-laws to prevent the group Laibach from appearing in public. The use of the name Laibach - as Ljubljana was renamed whilst under Nazi occupation in 1943 - as a means of making those in power readress the events of the past at a time of grave political uncertainty, was subject to immediate censorship. In the wake of this attempt to prevent the group from actually performing, Laibach became "the name that couldn't be spoken." However, the ban was counter-productive, and the authorities' despotic political gesture prompted a substantial percentage of the "citizenry" of the time to start tackling the "phenomenon of Laibach" with increased intensity. As a result, the group's name and work began to crop up in the media more than ever before. Despite this media attention, Laibach would be denied permission to appear publicly under their own name anywhere in Slovenia or the rest of Yugoslavia for some time to come. But in December 1984 they decided to go ahead with a concert in Ljubljana. To get around the state ban of their name they went about organising the concert without any mention of the forbidden word. All references to the group were reduced to the symbol of the group's cross insignia, which was flyposted around Ljubljana, along with an initialed cipher for the hall, date and time of the concert. Ljubljana's citizens knew how to read the signs. The hall quickly filled up and the "concert that never was" was a big success. The Grey Area released on CD only, the live recording of this historic night. 'M.B. DECEMBER 21, 1984' is not only of documentary value, but contains much of musical interest for Laibach listeners. For this special concert, Laibach extended their then brutal industrial noise with rare and daring jazz improvisations. As well as the tracks from the Ljubljana set, the disc features tracks from a Zagreb concert and from the Berlin Atonal Festival. All the tracks date from the same period and feature the same additional musicians. Laibach's first official performance in Ljubljana under their own name finally took place on February 17, 1987. (mute.com) These two releases represent almost the entire span of Laibach's career. The first is the next in the archival series of early recordings released by the Grey Area, which began with the excellent "Ljubljana-Zagreb-Beograd". Like that release this contains previously unreleased works vital to an understanding of the group's history. The collection is based around four tracks recorded at an illegal concert held in Ljubljana (Laibach) at a time when the public use of the group's name in the city had been prohibited either in concert or on posters or record sleeves. This "anonymous" show was advertised only by the poster shown on the cover featuring the characteristic Laibach/Malevich cross and the time and venue. The show was also unusual in that the group were accompanied by an improvising clarinettist, illustrating Laibach's link to the wider musical avant-garde of the period. The previously unheard opening track "Judgement of The Century" is an ominous piece of industrial monumentalism and as impressive as the finest tracks of that era. This is followed by fascinating "free jazz"-tinged versions of "Ti, Ki, Izzivas", "Sila" and "Sredi Bojev" from "Rekapitulacija", the first of these is especially powerful. The squalling clarinet does not detract from the massively powerful din made by Laibach and these recordings are arguably more impressive than those on the classic "Occupied Europe Tour" live album. As Ico Vidmar notes in the sleeve text one of the most interesting features is random; the whirring of the film-projector which becomes a highly atmospheric element of the music itself. Besides the recording of the anonymous show there are tracks from shows in Zagreb and Berlin in 1985. In Zagreb Laibach seem not just to have sampled Tito's voice but to have played complete unaccompanied passages from his speeches including the famous "Both those in the east and in the west" passage used on "Panorama". The most intense Zagreb piece is what must be the ultimate version of "Nova Akropola". Cavernous drums and impossibly low drones are set off by a rasping distorted vocal at an agonizingly slow tempo. None of the other Zagreb and Berlin tracks have been released previously and they are strong tracks in their own right which already contain many characteristic Laibach sounds; discordant pianos, braying stags etc. As the final piece ends a high-pitched TV signal drone gradually fades to silence and the German presenter poses a rhetorical question; "Laibach - Gut?". (by Alexei Monroe, http://www.gla.ac.uk/~dc4w/laibach/laibach.html)

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