Their score for Roman Polanski's Macbeth film required the group to work in a somewhat more constricted format. So instead of lengthy hypnotic drones, this album's split into 16 separate pieces, some of them quite short. It's consequently not as reflective of their highest ambitions as the Third Ear Band album, and loses a bit when placed out of context from the Shakespeare classic. It still works reasonably effectively on its own, conjuring appopriately ominous Elizabethean moods, with the surprise addition of (uncredited) female vocals on one track. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Roger Dean (Artwork), Paul Minns (Recorder), Denim Bridges (Guitar), Paul Buckmaster (Cello), Andrew King (Producer), Colin Sweeney (Percussion), Glenn Sweeney (Drums), Paul Buckmaster (Guitar (Bass)), Third Ear Band (Producer), Simon House (VCS 3 Synthesizer), Simon House (Violin), Paul Minns (Oboe)
Macbeth is a Laibach album released in 1990. Like Baptism it is the soundtrack to a play, this time Shakespeare's Macbeth. The music was originally written for a staging of Macbeth by Wilfried Minks at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987. Laibach as a band were also included in the staging.
