SILENCE: The Vocabulary of Madness
Pekinpah is thrilled to announce a deliciously anomalous event: the release of a new studio album by Silence. The Vocabulary of Madness, Silence's first studio album in a decade, is to be released as a 32-page hardcover book with CD. This exceptionally rare phenomenon, which occurs every decade or so, will take place on November 4, 2022, along with the premiere concert presentation at Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana.
The Vocabulary of Madness is an unforeseen album for unforeseen times. It is the first comprehensive guide to a universal, increasingly popular language. Madness is a language we all speak fluently – especially when we have no intention of doing so.
The album, released as a 32-page hardcover book with CD, consists of ten tracks.
The songs, a fusion of haunting synthesizers and processed, pitched-down vocals, were co-produced and mastered by Silence’s long-time collaborator, Gregor Zemljič.
The Vocabulary of Madness is therapy for those afflicted by so-called normality, by the ever-diminishing returns of business as usual. It is a committed – excuse the pun – attempt to turn psychoanalysis into a music genre.
An album for the Jung at heart.
The Vocabulary of Madness is to be released on November 4, 2022. The premiere concert presentation is to take place on the same day at Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana.
Treat yourself to some madness before the album's official release and order your vocabulary in presale!
Taken from Silence's upcoming album The Vocabulary of Madness.
THE VOCABULARY OF MADNESS
01 We Have Bigger Problems Than the End of the World
02 A Moment’s Song
03 Why Waste a Fine Slavery?
04 Fears
05 Dead Man
06 Kisik
07 Let Me Be Love
08 Vihar, vihar
09 Anatomy of a Kiss
10 Heart Street
Written, performed, and produced by Primož Hladnik and Boris Benko
The lyrics of Vihar, vihar written by Srečko Kosovel
Co-produced, mixed, and mastered by Gregor Zemljič
Co-co-produced by COVID-19
Design: Phant & Puntza | Illustrations: Boris Benko
Photos: Borut Peterlin
The album contains graphic cynicism that may be disturbing for some listeners.
ABOUT SILENCE
Silence is Hladnik (music and arrangements) and Benko (music, lyrics, and vocals).
The duet's discography consists of five studio albums: Ma non troppo (1997), Unlike a Virgin (1999), Vain – A Tribute to a Ghost (2004), Musical Accompaniment for the End of the World (2012), and The Vocabulary of Madness (2022). In 2006, the duet released Key Silence, a 2CD anthology and rarities collection.
The duet has scored more than fifty plays, dance performances, and radio dramas. Silence’s notable collaborators include directors Tomaž Pandur, Aleksandar Popovski, Primož Ekart, Matjaž Berger, Livija Pandur, and Matjaž Pograjc. The duet's discography includes four theatre scores: Maison des rendez-vous (2003), Love Unto Death (2007), Veronika (2005), and The Passion of the Cold (2008), a double album with music from Pandur’s plays Barroco and Caligula.
The duet has scored three feature-length films by Damjan Kozole: A Call Girl (2009), Project Cancer (2013), and Nightlife (2016). Silence's music features prominently in History of Love (2018), Sonja Prosenc's sophomore film.
The duet collaborates regularly with Laibach. In 2006, the duet composed and produced Volk, Laibach’s 7th studio album. In 2015, Laibach and Silence became the first Western alternative acts to perform in North Korea. Silence rearranged a number of standards from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The Sound of Music for the occasion. The songs were released by Mute Records in 2018. In 2019, Mute Records released Party Songs, a six-track EP featuring unpublished tracks from the repertoire of Laibach’s and Silence’s performances in Pyongyang.