Glasgow band to have debut track housed at German concentration camp archive

Glasgow band to have debut track housed at German concentration camp archive. Die Moorsoldaten (The Peat Bog Soldiers) is a haunting but stirring song of protest, written in August 1933 by left-wing political prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp Börgermoor. Now, The Tenementals, a Glasgow band, will have their newly-released take on the song housed in the archives of the Documentation and Information Center "Emsland Camps", a few kilometers from the site where the concentration camp song was first performed. The Tenementals, a band of academics and musicians who came together to delve into the history of Glasgow through the power of music, released two versions of the song on Strength cin Numbers Records in November 2023. One version was in the original German, and one was in both German and English. The Tenementals' versions featured a new translation and sought to breathe new life into an old song, and, as frontman David Archibald said at the time of its release, 'blast it into the future'. The release was received favourably with one critic describing The Tenementals' version as 'a stunning new version for our times'.