SILENCE IS:
Hladnik (music & arrangements) and Benko (music, lyrics & vocals)
HISTORY:
2010 - The duet writes the score for Aleksandar Popovski's
play Metamorfoze (Metamorphoses), produced by the Yugoslav Drama
Theatre (JDP)
2010 - The duet writes the score for Primoz Ekart's play
Pes, pizda in peder (Pooch, Pussy & Poof), produced
by Imaginarni and the Ljubljana City Theatre
2010 - The duet writes the score for Ana Tomovic's play Romeo
& Juliet, produced by Theater Oberhausen.
2009 - The duet writes the score for Matjaz Pograjc's rendition
of A Clockwork Orange, produced by the Mladinsko Theatre.
2009 - The duet writes the soundtrack to Slovenka,
a film directed by Damjan Kozole.
2009 - The duet writes the score for Tomaz Pandur's play
Medea, produced by the Centro de Producción del Festival de Mérida.
2009 - The duet writes the score to Blackbird, a
play produced by Imaginarni.
2009 - The duet writes the score for Tomaz Pandur's play
Hamlet, produced by Teatro Español.
2008 - The duet writes the score for Matjaz Pograjc's play
Za prgisce Sekspirja (For a Fistful of Shakespeare), produced
by the Mladinsko theatre.
2008 - The duet writes the score for Ella, a play
directed by Primoz Ekart.
2008 - The Pekinpah Association releases The
Passion of the Cold, a double album containing music from (or inspired
by) Tomaz Pandur's plays Barroco and Kaligula.
2008 - The duet writes the score for Tomaz Pandur's
play Kaligula, produced by Gavella Theatre Zagreb, Pandur.Theaters,
Theatre City Budva, Ulysses Theatre, Ohrid Summer Festival, and Mittelfest.
2008 - The duet writes the score for Srecna Srecka (Lucky
& Zorba), a puppet show produced by Lutkovno gledalisce Ljubljana.
2007 - Silence cowrite the soundtrack to Dance Or Die,
Betontanc's 13th play.
2007 - Mladinsko Theatre releases Ljubezen
na smrt (Love Unto Death), Silence's soundtrack to Matjaz Pograjc's
homonymous play.
2007 - Show Your Face! is awarded for collective
artistic achievement at the central Slovene theatre festival, the
42nd Borstnik Meeting.
2007 - Silence write the score for Tomaz Pandur's play
Barroco, produced by Teatro Fernán Gómez / Centro Cultural de
la Villa de Madrid.
2007 - The band writes fifteen songs for Love Unto Death,
a theatre play produced by the Slovene Mladinsko theatre.
2007 - The band writes the soundtrack for I Am My Own Wife,
a one-man play directed and performed by Primoz Ekart.
2006 - Silence write and produce Volk, Laibach's
12th album. Hladnik and Benko occasionally join Laibach
on their 2006-08 world tour.
2006 - Silence write the soundtrack for Tesla Electric
Company, a theatre play directed by Tomaz Pandur.
2006 - Silence write the soundtrack for Show Your Face!,
the twelfth Betontanc play, in collaboration with Ugis Vitins.
2006 - Accession Records releases Key Silence,
a 2CD anthology / rarities collection.
2006 - Sold out acoustic performance at Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana.
2005 - Silence sign to Accession Records, a prominent
German independent label.
2005 - Silence write the soundtrack for Peter Rabbit,
a puppet show produced by Lutkovno gledalisce Ljubljana.
2005 - Matrix Musik releases Skin: The Remixes.
The vinyl features remixes by Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and
Random Logic.
2005 - German tour with Diary Of Dreams.
2005 - The band joins Contribe, a German booking
and promotion agency.
2005 - The band writes the soundtrack for Veronika decides...,
a contemporary dance performance directed by Gagik Ismailian and
produced by the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana.
The premiere is accompanied by the release of an exclusive, limited edition
of the soundtrack, entitled Veronika.
2004 - Sobotna priloga (the renowned weekly supplement of the
biggest Slovene daily, Delo) lists Vain - A Tribute To A Ghost
as one of the three best Slovene releases of 2004.
2004 - Silence write the soundtrack for Lulubaj, a theatre play
produced by Slovensko Mladinsko gledalisce.
2004 - Sold out unplugged performance at Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana.
2004 - Matrix Music & Chrom Records release
Vain - A Tribute To A Ghost. Silence become part of the
legend surrounding Matej Smolnik a.k.a. Vain, a young artist
whose strange death in 1998 baffled pathologists.
2004 - The band writes and produces two tracks, Klise and God
Forsaken Country, for Rozmarinke, a Slovene female string quartet.
Klise achieves a surprising second place at the Slovene selection for
the Eurovision song contest.
2004 - Silence write the soundtrack for Winnie The Pooh, a puppet
show produced by Lutkovno gledalisce Ljubljana.
2004 - Silence write the soundtrack for Wrestling Dostoievsky,
the tenth Betontanc play.
2003 - Silence record Hall Of Mirrors for Trans Slovenia
Express volume 2, a compilation featuring Kraftwerk classics reinterpreted
by acclaimed Slovenian acts. Anne Clark appears on the track as guest
vocalist.
2003 - Nika Records releases the Maison Des Rendez-Vous soundtrack.
2003 - Silence's private production facility - the Daily Girl
studio - becomes operational.
2003 - Silence write two songs for Emofad (Emotivity Of Adventures),
a contemporary dance performance directed by choreographer Goran Bogdanovski.
Benko and Random Logic perform live in the performance.
2002 - The band renews its contract with Brainstorm/Devman Publishing.
2002 - Silence write the score for Viktorji, the biggest Slovenian
media awards.
2002 - Silence write the soundtrack for Maison Des Rendez-Vous,
the ninth Betontanc play.
2001 - Benko sings live in Svic & Svarc (Sweat & Soot),
a post-modern ballet piece interpreted by Fico Balet and directed by
Goran Bogdanovski.
2001 - Silence write the music for Peter Pan, a play co-produced
by Lutkovno gledalisce Ljubljana and Slovensko Mladinsko gledalisce.
2000 - Benko interprets Cliffs of Norway, a beautiful piece
written by Ernst Horn, the songwriter of Deine Lakaien. The song appears
on Subout, a compilation featuring De/Vision, Oomph!, Front 242,
Wolfsheim, and others.
2000 - Unlike A Virgin is nominated for 'best newcomer' at the
Bumerang awards - the Slovenian awards for different music.
2000 - Delo, Slovenia's biggest newspaper, classifies Unlike
A Virgin as 'one of the five most important Slovenian albums this year'.
2000 - Silence write the soundtrack for Midnight Meat Flight,
the eighth performance by the notorious Betontanc dance theater.
2000 - Chrom Records releases the Son Of Sin Maxi Single. Ernst
Horn contributes one of the remixes.
2000 - Sold out unplugged performance at Cankarjev Dom (the central
Slovene culture and congress centre).
1999 - Unlike A Virgin is voted 'Album of the year' in Orkus,
one of the most influential German alternative music magazines. It receives
the highest grades in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Ragazzi, Online.de,
Wrath, Zillo…
1999 - The second album, Unlike A Virgin, is released by Chrom
Records.
1998 - Gregor Zemljic, one of the most influential Slovenian producers
(a member of the internationally acclaimed Random Logic duet) produces
four songs from Silence's upcoming second album.
1998 - Silence embark on a short German Tour with the German act Distain!.
1998 - Silence sign a contract with one of the biggest German publishers,
Brainstorm / Devman Publishing.
1997 - Ma Non Troppo is voted 'Album of the month' in New
Life.
1997 - Ma Non Troppo, Silence's debut album, is released by Chrom
Records.
1996 - Silence sign a contract for two albums with Chrom Records,
an independent label from Berlin (at the time, the label was situated in Munich).
1996 - Silence's international debut - the song Shut Up is released
on The Daydream Compilation, an international collection of modern
European Synth Pop.
1995 - Ferenc leaves the band.
1995 - Peter Penko, one of the most important Slovenian producers (Coptic
Rain, April Nine, Laibach…), starts working with the band.
1994 - First Silence concert in Ljubljana.
1992 - The band is founded by Boris Benko, Matjaz Ferenc and Primoz
Hladnik.
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