LJUBEZEN NA SMRT - KONCERT ZA KUHARJA, 6 VAJENCEV IN 3 POMIVALCE
(Love Unto Death - Concert for a cook, 6 apprentices and 3 dish-washers)
Music from Matjaz Pograjc's homonymous play
Slovensko mladinsko gledalisce
Release date: December 11th 2007
Produced by Blaz Celarec and Silence
Additional information: www.mladinsko.com (in Slovene)

1. Paul Verlaine: Pogreb / Sepulture
2. Arthur Rimbaud: Prvi vecer / The First Evening
3. Georges Bataille: Svoj ud polozim ... / I Place My Cock Against Your Cheek
4. Charles Baudelaire: Ikarova tozba / The Lamentations Of An Icarus
5. Arthur Rimbaud: Pesem z najvisjega stolpa / Song Of The Highest Tower
6. Else Lasker-Schüler: Kje naj smrt odlozi moje srce? /
Where Should Death Bestow My Heart?
7. Charles Baudelaire: Abel in Kajn / Abel And Cain
8. Oscar Wilde: Jetniska balada iz Readinga / The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
9. Gottfried Benn: Lepa mladost / A Fine Childhood
10. Charles Baudelaire: Metamorfoze vampirja / The Vampire's Metamorphoses
11. Georg Trakl: Nocna romanca / Romance In The Night
12. Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee
13. Federico García Lorca: Mesecna romanca / Romance Sonámbulo
14. Georg Heym: Demoni mest / The Demons Of The City
15. Charles Baudelaire: Omamljajte se! / Get High

Listen to: Kje naj smrt odlozi moje srce? (feat. Marusa Geymayer-Oblak)




Ljubezen na smrt - Koncert za kuharja, 6 vajencev in 3 pomivalce (Love Unto Death - Concert for a cook, 6 apprentices and 3 dish-washers) - the 9th collaboration between director Matjaz Pograjc and Silence - is a peculiar concoction of theatre, cuisine, poetry and music. The play's versatile cast acts, prepares a selection of delicious specialities under the supervision of chef Danilo Ivanusa and performs live - in pure musical style - fifteen songs written by Silence and eleven renowned poets. All of which simultaneously.

The performance takes place in what can only be described as a twisted Sushi-bar (conceived by scenographer Sandi Mikluz). A new dish is prepared during each song and placed on a conveyor belt circling among the viewers. Due to the limited amount of food produced by the cast, only 78 viewers are admitted per play.

The play's unorthodox concept proved a success. Ljubezen na smrt opened on April 12th 2007 and is still - two dozen sold-out performances later - going strong. According to Delo (Slovenia), Ljubezen na smrt is "... an unusual, original and mature theatre play... like every true work of art, it gives rise to numerous unpleasant questions."



In March 2007, Silence set to music fifteen poems written by predominantly expressionist and symbolist poets. All poems share the subjects of love and death or, better yet, the undeniable relation between the two. The poems also share an unsettling, yet irresistible directness. They are humorous, cynical, morbid, perverse, shrewd, uncanny - not to mention completely nuts - and will undoubtedly shatter any preconceptions you may have about poetry. Here's a sample, just to get in vein - Gottfried Benn's A Fine Childhood:

The mouth of a girl who had long lain in the reeds
looked so chewed up.
When we broke open the torso, the esophagus was so full of holes.
Finally in a bower under the diaphragm
we found a nest of young rats.
One little sister rat lay dead.
The others were living off liver and kidney,
drinking the cold blood and enjoying
a fine childhood.
And fine and fast was their death too:
we threw the whole bunch into water.
Oh, how those little snouts squeaked!



The album, produced and mixed by Blaz Celarec and Silence, was recorded in April 2007 at studio Jork. The songs are sung by the play's cast (Neda R. Bric, Marusa Geymayer-Oblak, Branko Jordan, Janja Majzelj, Ivan Peternelj and Ivan Rupnik) and performed by three remarkable musicians - Blaz Celarec (drums, percussion, clarinet), Ziga Golob (double bass, steel guitar, ukulele, singing saw) and Joze Salej (upright piano). As each song is realized in a different style, the soundtrack's most distinguishing feature is - beyond doubt - its surprising diversity. Even a shred of Russian Orthodox church music can be found amidst the soundtrack's extensive list of seemingly incompatible genres: country, samba, blues, cabaret... Another peculiarity: Ljubezen na smrt is Silence's first album in Slovene, the duet's mother-tongue.

AVAILABILITY
Slovenia: Ljubezen na smrt is available in major stores, as well as online. It is also available at the following locations in Ljubljana:
- Mladinsko Theatre's box-office (Vilharjeva 11)
- Prodajna galerija (Trg francoske revolucije 5)

International orders: The album can be ordered by mail. The price is 14.90 € per unit + postal charge (collect on delivery). Place your order here.

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