LULUBAJ (2004)
Theatre play
Produced by the Slovensko Mladinsko theatre
Directed by Matjaz Pograjc
Opening night: December 28th 2004
More info: www.mladinsko.com (in Slovenian)

Based on Frank Wedekind's expressionist drama Lulu, Lulubaj begins after Lulu's murder and focuses on the moral degradation of her lovers/killers. The audience follows the cast through the ruins of an old post office near the Mladinsko theatre in Ljubljana, staged as a 1920's Berlin ravaged by depression, a dissolute 1940's Paris and a bizarre farm in the outskirts of London in the 60's.

Listen to: The Last Dance / The London Song


The soundtrack follows the cast and the audience on their journey. The play opens in Berlin with melancholy piano pieces, shifts to Paris with flamboyant accordion-based tracks and ends in London with a... well, weird musical concoction. Each metropolis is marked by a song sung by Benko in the local language. The historic value of all three songs is undisputable; they represent Hladnik's lyric debut, as well as Benko's baptism of fire in German and French. The soundtrack was written, produced, recorded and mixed in Silence's private production facility, the Daily Girl studio.

In 2006, Accession Records released Key Silence - a 2CD anthology containing a selection of pivotal Silence tracks. The record features three previously unreleased tracks from Lulubaj: Der Untergang, Les Egoistes and The Last Dance.

01. Arrival / Departure
Berlin
02. A Letter From The Dead
03. Der Untergang / The Berlin Song
Paris
04. Les Egoistes / The Paris Song
05. Entering The Theatre
06. Henriette's Monologue
07. Schwarz And Countess Geschwitz
08. Have You Ever Seen A Butterfly Scream?
London
09. The Last Dance / The London Song

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