out soon: Laibach – Opus Dei Revisited [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
Opus Dei Revisited

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM544

Release Date:
13th December 2024

Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
CD1-01.
Leben Heißt Leben
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-02.
Geburt Einer Nation
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-03.
Leben-Tod
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-04.
F.I.A.T.
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-05.
Transnational
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-06.
How The West Was Won
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-07.
The Great Seal
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD1-08.
Opus Dei
(Opus Dei Revisited 2024)

CD2-01.
Leben Heißt Leben
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-02.
Geburt Einer Nation
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-03.
Leben-Tod
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-04.
F.I.A.T.
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-05.
Opus Dei
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-06.
Transnational
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-07.
How The West Was Won
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

CD2-08.
The Great Seal
(Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)

Press Info:
LAIBACH continue a 12-month salute to their classic 1987 album Opus Dei with striking new versions which radically interrogate the source material. Opus Dei Revisited is set for release on Mute on 13 December 2024 on double vinyl and double CD.

Opus Dei (translation: God’s Work) was the band’s first album for Mute, garnering acclaim and throwing a worldwide spotlight on the unique Slovenian collective. Opus Dei Revisited presents two distinct new versions of the work, allowing the band to challenge perceptions and expectations, in keeping with the original where they reimagined Opus’ ‘Live Is Life’ (as ‘Opus Dei’) and Queen’s ‘One Vision’ (‘Geburt einer Nation’), two key highlights of the album.

The first disc of the Double LP / CD is a reworking by Laibach themselves which was initially crafted, and then refined, for their current Opus Dei Revisited Tour. Never a band to take an easy route to any destination, the challenge to re-evaluate, reinterpret and rebuild the tracks was an artistic imperative. The band were so pleased with the results they entered the studio immediately after Phase 1 of the Opus Dei Revisited Tour was completed to capture the results.

For the second disc they invited Rico Conning (Wire, Pere Ubu, Swans, Front 242, William Orbit), who produced and mixed the 1987 version, to also Revisit the material. Conning was given an open brief to explore new territories with what was on the original master tapes. The results emphasise and eviscerate in equal measure, bringing wide ranging new perspectives and a strident aural attitude. Whilst many expected elements of the artistic masterpiece remain, they sit in exciting new landscapes and frames, which are anything but expected.

Snippets:
soon

Video:
“Geburt Einer Nation (Rico Conning’s Inner Ear Remix 2024)”