Macbeth | |
Type: | soundtrack |
Artist: | Laibach |
Cover: | Laibach Macbeth.jpg |
Released: | 22 January 1990 |
Genre: | Industrial, classical |
Length: | 32:00 |
Label: | Mute |
Prev Title: | Let It Be |
Prev Year: | 1988 |
Next Title: | Sympathy for the Devil |
Next Year: | 1990 |
Macbeth is a 1990 album by Slovenian avant-garde music group Laibach. It consists of music composed and performed by Laibach for a 1987 production of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth by at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany in 1987. It is the second Laibach album consisting of music written for a play, after their 1986 album Baptism.
Largely instrumental, the music is a combination of dramatic pseudo-classical themes, typically on strings and brass, and militaristic ones dominated by percussion, with musique concrete interludes. Critics have noted the album's resemblance to Laibach's earlier, more radical and experimental style, in contrast with their their, at the time, increasing incorporation of popular music elements.
The LP editions don't list the individual track durations. The CD editions contain all music merged into a single half-hour track.