Silence (band)
Silence is a Slovene electronic, synthpop and soundtrack music composing duo consisting of Boris Benko (singer and songwriter) and Primož Hladnik (keyboards and arrangements).
Musicians from the End of the World (Glasbenika s konca sveta), directed by Haidy Kancler and produced by RTV Slovenia, is a 30-minute film which candidly documents the lives and two-decade long career of Silence.
Silence made their international debut in 1996 with the song "Shut Up", which was featured on the synthpop compilation Daydream Collection released on the German label Gymnastic.
The Berlin independent label (located in Munich at the time of the contract signing) houses, among other artists, Deine Lakaien, Distain!
A few months after the release of their second album, in March 2000, the band gave a sold out unplugged performance in Stih's hall, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana.
Meanwhile, the duo wrote the soundtrack for Midnight Meat Flight, a performance by the notorious "Betontanc" dance theater, and Delo classified Unlike A Virgin "one of the five most important Slovenian albums of the year".
Benko also sang live in Svic & Svarc (Sweat & Soot), a post-modern ballet piece interpreted by Fico Balet and directed by Goran Bogdanovski.
In 2002, Silence wrote the soundtracks for Maison Des Rendez-Vous, another Betontanc play, and "Viktorji", the biggest Slovenian media awards.
The duo kept working with soundtrack projects and in 2003 they wrote two songs for Emofad (Emotivity Of Adventures), a contemporary dance performance directed and choreographed by Goran Bogdanovski.
Their first soundtrack of 2005 was for Veronika decides..., a contemporary dance performance directed by Gagik Ismailian and produced by the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana.
Critically praised[1] Tesla Electric Company, which opened July 19, 2006, marked Silence's first collaboration with influential director Tomaž Pandur and arguably the duo's most successful contribution to a play.
On the same day the Bulgarian poet Svetoslav Todorov issued his debut poetry e-book І. Obezkostiavane on his blog with "The True Nature of Happiness", one of the songs on the album, being included in the rar file.
The Passion of the Cold is conceived as a handmade book containing two CD's, features 90 minutes of music from (or inspired by) Tomaz Pandur's plays Barroco and Kaligula.
