Silence sometimes says a lot more than you think. And sometimes we really need it, even in the hustle and bustle of December. In order to take a bit of a step back from it before its climax, we can listen to the silence in the SNG Drama Ljubljana on December 28 between performances and experience the Silence duet concert in a slightly different way.
Their history spans over 20 years, 22 to be exact. At that time, there were actually three more - Boris Benko, Matjaž Ferenc and Primož Hladnik were the ones who founded the band Silence in 1992, and two years later performed live for the first time in Ljubljana. Ferenc left the band a year later, and Benko and Hladnik drove their wedge deep into the musical heart and went on the road.
Part of it is perfectly summarized by the 30-minute long documentary film Musicians from the End of the World directed by Haidy Kancler, and it contains ten tracks that were released by Silence in 2012.
Today, two years later, we will get to know their extraordinary work, melancholic and experimental sounds interspersed with vocal arrangements, in a slightly different, theatrical way. It is the first public break between performances, a good hour of silence. Duet Silence will perform fourteen compositions with their long-time collaborator, pianist Igor Vićentić, written for performances by Goran Bogdanovski, Primož Ekart, Gagik Ismailian, Tomaž Pandur, Matjaž Pograjec and Ana Tomović, and some of the compositions will be performed live for the first time.
Punctuality is a beautiful virtue. They warn us that we might be surprised by the beginning of the show!
