Axebreaker - Bunker Archaeology, Vol. 2: Concrete Tombs (Brachliegen Tapes, CS)

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Axebreaker - Bunker Archaeology, Vol. 2: Concrete Tombs (Brachliegen Tapes, CS)

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Axebreaker - Bunker Archaeology, Vol.2: Concrete Tombs, cassette out April 2023 on Brachliegen Tapes:

https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com/a ... rete-tombs

CONCRETE TOMBS is the second volume in Axebreaker’s Bunker Archaeology dyad of cassettes, following vol. 1: Military Landscapes released on Outsider Art. CONCRETE TOMBS is a work of anti-fascist power-electronics drawing upon cultural theorist Paul Virillio’s “Bunker Archaeology”, in which the architect and aesthetic philosopher writes about the ominous bunkers of the Third Reich which linger on France’s coasts as ruins.

Axebreaker melds field recordings of howling winds with a dirge of thick electronics; as the sea laps against the decaying shoreline, gurgling tones and an assault of shrieking spectral warnings emerge from the cavernous concrete blocks. As late-modernity’s ruins recede into the eroded coastline, a mechanical storm of heavy electronics is exhumed from the haunted shells of the quasi-religious beach alters. Squatting on the harsh strand, the grim fortifications coalesce with geological forms, and the cryptic architecture harbours a sinister cenotaph to the ubiquity of war’s machinery and the cartographies of its violence.

This receding Atlantikwall, wrecked upon the land’s edge, is a funerary moment of Nazi fascism. The now empty shells are ruins, sites whose physical and spiritual functions have collapsed and disintegrated through the passage of time. Axebreaker harnesses the ghostly qualities of indeterminacy that these haunted spaces possess, drawing attention to the fact that our experience of time and place is a palimpsest where past, present and future co-exist and intermingle. The traces of past violence is calcified in the ruins of these Nazi bunkers, and CONCRETE TOMBS explores these disorienting crypts, wherein the distance between past and present becomes mixed and muddied.

A bundle of both volumes of Axebreaker's Bunker Archaeology, feat. Vol 1: Military Landscapes (OA) & Vol 2: Concrete Tombs (Brachliegen Tapes) is currently available through our bandcamp. Feel free to email us for any distribution or wholesale enquiries - brachliegentapes@gmail.com.

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