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Draining the Waterheart (Remastered 2020)

by Mar de Grises

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1.
Like leaves of my autumn that sleep just one dawn Where can I find a hope that doesn’t abandon me? Until it sleeps I’ll be waiting, thinking where to hide you And if in a thousand ashes you become, where would you be to dismiss? In my thoughts you’ll sleep and in silence you’ll wake up Melodies that make me remember and forget Have you left any dream for me? Stop crying and remember us… You must stop and remember us Where do you hide us while they observe from nowhere? Why don’t you come back from your unmentioned unconsciousness? Are you the one who I met where death researches (for) love? From nowhere nothing you will find And nowhere you will find me (But) don’t sleep, because nothing I have left for you (nothing) I’ve taken all from this life towards the unknown Where there’s no way back, were you are who you must be Would you like to remember, forget and miss?
2.
Algo que me hace distinto por dentro Ante un ocaso de fuego eterno Puedo contarte secretos perpetuos Sombras de noche me alejo muy dentro Y en una humilde risa te envidio Y en mis palabras secas (dominio) Y sobre una luna te dejé Y con demencia supe perder Y en una fría calma perdido Perdido en el olvido Olvido en un otoño sin piel El que me hizo caer Quiero esconderme desierto por dentro Cubro mis manos, el viento eterno Abro mis ojos y miro el silencio Invierno en mi vida, amarga mentira
3.
I raped the shadow interpreter But I was acting (as she was) What is to blame? The silence we couldn’t steal? The pain we couldn’t fool? Onward to the crystal roots Deep-seeded is my hope But you make master keys fall Stop digging in this hole! Screams my soil with a broken bone Is love your cage? (Impossible) My rebellion Is under construction Crystallized they will ever remain Roots of shadows within this fate!
4.
Fantasía 03:10
5.
Woodpecker A: Pecking the rays of the sun Watching the falling of a tree Stop this nonsense at one! And swallow the flow of the sea Woodpecker B: But wooden is the tool of fate Drawing the dawn of my tears Let me peck a hole in wood And plunge myself into bliss Wooden woodpecker: No longer a tree I’ll call This wooden-hearted sun in me As a tree is what I’m now Living the rotting of my seed
6.
Need a sign Something within me If I could escape I’d stay here to cry To cry like a child My tears are flames in pain I swear I’d kill for you I swear I am possessed I breathe and I can’t sleep Thunder in the sky Fear, I don’t believe I breathe and I can’t sleep Thunder in the sky Fear in my dark mind I feel the loneliness in the dark Falling down into the eternal night Full moon blinds my tired soul In the end I see your ambitious mind But when I can see your soul, my heart… I will see that mind as mine
7.
Summon me 06:23
Unfulfilled in this acid corner How could I have let you go? Drinking silent liquid chaos Is this finally the time of calm? Take me away from my soul Summon me Sell me to your words Yet seal me to your silence As we forget the final smile Once ingrained to my nothingness Let me be the north of dust Not in disguise Silencer of relentless nights Your words, my blood Summon me Take me through your blood The truth is I... ...Colour me Infect me with your joy
8.
El sueño turbio puede salvar al muerto Al vaso el agua sucia que lo aviva Oh dios si el tentador me ofrece proteger Yo mi agua abriré en rosa turbulenta Ahora te envaneces Crees que puedes olvidar No repitas más el confiteor deo Pero tu estas (llorando) en la hondura creciente De tu rostro Concentrando imágenes con arrepentimiento Mira esa pareja de enamorados Que se retiran y se alejan yéndose Más inaccesible en la presencia pura Que acá en el rostro salpicado de tiempo Pero tu estas llorando en la hondura creciente de tu rostro Concentrando imágenes con arrepentimiento Tus ojos en el mar veo agrandarse hasta las márgenes Y refluir en ondas de campanas insistentes ¿Yo te he dejado solo? Oh océano sin náufrago Puedo haberte hecho morir (en estas costas) ¿Y volver hacia adentro manantial ignorado?

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“Mar de Grises is the best prog/doom/post-metal I’ve heard lately, across its hour-long running time, Draining The Waterheart is a truly beautiful and encapsulating listen, ebbing and flowing”

This excerpt from a review by Andrew Edmund (Your Last Rites magazine) could give you a peek of what the second making of the Santiago quintet had to offer. After the release of their successful 2004 debut album ‘The Tatterdemalion Express’, which collected reviews from top-notch publications from all over the world and following their return from their first European tour in 2005, Mar de Grises continued gaining reputation as one of the leading avantgarde/doom/death bands of the scene. But before they set the foundations for new material, the band had to face the loss of their frontman Marcelo Rodríguez. Luckily, Juan Escobar joined the band shortly after and the writing process for ‘Draining the Waterheart’ (Firebox Records, 2008) thus started.

This sophomore record shows a thicker and expansive sound compared to their debut. With captivating atmospheres and oneiric passages led by keyboards and synthesizers, it’s easy to be trapped by their gloomy trance, but the inclusion of their usual slab of melancholy and epic segments keeps the music heavy enough. One can say that these Chilean proggy doomsters had maintained the core of their sound but introduced distinct layers of investigation with a view to fill that water heart.
In 2020 The Vinyl Division proudly releases Draining the Waterheart on double gatefold vinyl, with remastered vinyl audio by Jaime Gómez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Ulver, Ghost, etc.) plus an insert with detailed liner notes by former band members, fellow musicians and friends from all around the globe and a revamped artwork by Irene Serrano (Déhà, Yossi Sassi, Helevorn).

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released September 11, 2020

Recorded in different sessions between August and October 2007 at Pig Power Studios, Santiago of Chile
Mixed and mastered in different sessions between October 2007 and January 2008 at Cactus Room, Santiago of Chile
Produced by Juan Escobar, Rodrigo Gálvez and Rodrigo Morris
Executive production by Rodrigo Gálvez
Mixed by Raphaël França and Mar de Grises
Engineered by Raphaël França
Recording and digital editing by Carolina Desbordes
Extra recording at Cactus Room and Estudio Gris
Mastered by Raphaël França

All songs written by Juan Escobar and Rodrigo Morris
Musical Arrangements by Mar de Grises
Track 7: Drum sequences and drum machine by Rodrigo Morris

Cover concept by Tuomo Lehtonen and Mar de Grises
Artwork design by Tuomo Lehtonen

Draining the Waterheart concept by Alejandro Arce

*Liturgia: Convite y prefiguración/Diálogo infierno/Purgatorio
Lyrics taken from: “Liturgia”. Anguita, Eduardo. Poesía Entera
Adaptation by Juan Escobar

Mar de Grises is:

Sergio Álvarez: Guitar
Alejandro Arce: Drums
Juan Escobar: Keys and Vox
Rodrigo Gálvez: Bass
Rodrigo Morris: Guitar

For more info:

Official website: www.mardegrises.net
Bandcamp: mardegrises.bandcamp.com
Instagram: @mardegrisescl
E-mail: mardegrises@gmail.com

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Mar de Grises Región Metropolitana, Chile

The soul of individual music is shaped by its surroundings. Mar de Grises capture the essence of their Chilean homelands from the fires of the volcanic north, through the Atacama desert, along the majestic Andes mountains, to the icy Antarctic waves washing against the southern shores. All of these environments are represented in the tidal melodies of "Streams Inwards". ... more

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