Laibach announced Alamut to a roomful of music journalists in London back in July of 2022. The album they were aiming to bring to fruition was unusual even by their unorthodox standards. The Slovenians set forth a project on an epic scale: a nine movement symphonic work to be performed in both Ljubljana and Tehran with a full orchestra, written by Iranian composers Idin Samimi Mofakham and Nima A. Rowshan in collaboration with the Slovenian composer Luka Jamni of Laibach.
Alamut would be based on a Slovenian novel published in 1938. Vladimir Bartol’s book, set in eleventh century Persia, was sarcastically dedicated to Benito Mussolini by the author when it was first published. Named after the Alamut Fortress in the province of Qazvin in Iran where…

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