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Mandrake
« Mary Celeste »
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| 1 | Mary Celeste 6:27
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| | 2 | Crystals of Forgiveness 4:34
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| | 3 | Fragile 5:42
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| | 4 | Forgiven 4:00
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| | 5 | Adore 3:52
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| | 6 | Masquerade 5:13
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| | 7 | Sweet Desolution 3:48
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| | 8 | Moments (Touched by Time) 3:57
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| | 9 | Breathe 5:12
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| | 10 | Solace 3:38
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| | 11 | Life's Last Shore 4:26
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| | 12 | Borrowed Life 3:57
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| | 13 | Paralyzed 4:12
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| | Total playing time: 59:03 |
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Birgit Lau - Vocals
Lutz de Putter - Vocals & Guitars
Julius Martinek - Guitars
Garvin Busch - Bass
Jorg Uken - Drums & Keys |
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Produced by Jorg Uken and Lutz De Putter
Recorded and mixed in may 2007 at the Soundlodge Rhauderhefn Germany
Mastered at the Studio E by Markus Stock
All music written by Lutz De Putter except
"Paralyzed" written by F Linsmeier
Lyrics by Eike-S. Kroger
Additional Keyboards by Bernd Ammermann and F Linsmeier
Guest Vocals by Ladde Ropers
Guest lead guitar on "Mary Celeste" by Michael Brochers
Band photography by Jana Rickers
Cover artwork and design by Jason Campblood |
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| 01. Mary Celeste
Leaderless in misty fog
No souls left onboard
Abandoned sailing far from shores
Denied to reach her port
Mournful voices, howling screams
Are carried by the wind
In misty nights the ocean sings
Of those who died therein
The whole ship a wet mess
Vanished souls of Mar |
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 В основу четвертого альбома немецкой группы Mandrake легка история реально существовавшей 31 метровой бригантины Мария Целеста, которая была найдена без видимых повреждений при полном отсутствии экипажа 4 декабря 1872 года. Корабль считался проклятым еще до этой странной и страшной находки и пользовался дурной славой, однако для последнего на тот момент судовладельца из Америки все эти предрассудки не играли никакой роли, главное была выгодная финансовая сделка. И он купил тогда еще бригантину Амазон, сразу же переименовав её в Марию Целесту. 7 ноября 1882 года судно под командованием 38-летнего капитана Бенджамина Бриггса вместе с его женой, двухлетней дочкой и семью членов экипажа вышло из порта Статен-Айленд в направлении Генуи. Больше никто и никогда не видел ни семьи Бриггса, ни экипажа бригантины… Мания на концептуальные проекты в последнее время достигла каких-то немыслимых размеров, однако далеко не всем удается удачное воплощение своих задумок. Mandrake не стали ничего выдумывать, взяв для основы сюжета концептуального диска более чем интересное событие, но… Видимо вся фантазия ушла на переработку текстов, а вот музыка явно подкачала: попытка создать готик-оперу со звучанием а-ля Lacuna Coil, с тяжелыми альтернативными гитарами и надрывным вокалом Биргит Лау почти провалилась. Биргит, чьи вокальные данные можно описать как нечто среднее между Долорес О’Риордан, Кристиной Скаббия и отчасти Аннеке Ван Гибензбург, не дотягивает ни до одной из упомянутых персон так же, как и музыканты в своих попытках подрожать то уже вышеупомянутой Lacuna Coil, то The Gathering времен «Mandylion», а то и вовсе Amorphis’y пополам с поздним Tiamat. Если такие бесплодные попытки заигрывания с альтернативным звучанием Mandrake продолжит и дальше, то они рискуют потерять своих слушателей точно также, как потерялась в Атлантическом океане семья Бриггса и экипаж “Марии Целесты”. (Диск предоставлен компанией Irond) |
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This shall be their final fate
To sing the oceans’s secret tale
Yearning ghosts on ocean’s ground
Still remain undone
With every fallen teardrop’s sound
Another verse is sung
02. Crystals Of Forgiveness
I remember Thy voice as a promise
Carressing my soul
Doubt has grown and poisoned me
Abusing angel’s secret wishes
To fill the lack that Thou hast left
With crystals of forgiveness
And these tears are just for me
To keep this sacred memory
Sheltered from Thy words
Nothing but the truth has passed
Step closer, angel, touch my skin
Enchant my heart with all Thy sin
03. Fragile
Moonlight glowing carefully
Caressing my mind’s eye
With fragile moments of distress
Memories (denied)
Voices whisper silently
Intensively my name
Assuring me to find an end
Their echoes still remain
Ghosts and demons, come to me
Grant me sight upon the stars
I know, there is still more to see
Inside it’s only dark…
How I wish that I could speak
To someone by my side
And how I wish that I could see
A world before my eyes
Moonlight glowing carefully
Caressing my mind’s eye
I hide inside my inner self
Since nothing is outside
04. Forgiven
Punish me, my darkness
As I wander blind
On paths I never dared to go
Lead me until I find
And now that I am willing
To reach another day
I find myself forgiven
No words are left to say
Wipe me now, my silence
As I still am deaf
To words I never dared to hear
Guide me until I speak
Awaken, oh my senses
As I cannot feel
Dreams I never dared to share
Lead me until I kneel
05. Adore
How long will I drown you
In the sea?
How long will I miss you
To be free?
Oh, how I adore life
By God, it’s just not mine
Those single moments I enjoy
I could leave them anytime
How long will I trust you?
Care for me
How long will I hold you?
Eternally
Wisdom, fill my empty mind
Divine shall I become
And hide behind my mask of pride
Forgiveness yet undone…
06. Masquerade
I thought I opened myself
Shared my deepest passion
Was so sure that you beheld
My secret dream’s redemption
Nothing here has ever changed
Still I kneel in confidence
Wait for the winds to take my hand
Truth drowns before my eyes
Let me not see its honour fade
Balmy pain in masquerade
Please let truth retain its soul
Far away we will grow old
All alone I find no grace
Only last word’s cold embrace
Lost emotions I once knew
I give what I should take from you
07. Sweet Desolation
The voice of water wakens me
A tale of sorrow told
Let me to its breathing listen
And in my heart its pain behold
As I leave I’ll often turn
Makes me think it’s not in vain
Unearthly singing guides my way
Sweet desolation where I’ll stay
Into some wond’rous worlds I’ll go
And hide this pain you’ll never know
Predestin’d path, I follow Thee
Keep their truth away from me
I turn to you, my dear bereaved
And innocence is called away
Let me, for one moment please
Find freedom, no more freedoms shade
This is what you all desire
Life is here to once expire
Breathe a prayer into the night
To frighten death as he frightens light
08. Moments (Touched by time)
Shelter me from what I feel
For what I know should not be real
Silence breaks into my mind
I listen to its voice divine
A single moment, touched by time
So useless with Thy words combined
Growing through the past of mine
Nothing yet remains
I wipe at their deceitful fate
Wipe that all their pain is desolate
Remember now what could have been
If only they could learn to see…
Painful seems it, death to serve
Through broken mirrors I observe
Birth again, and all the same
I watch them slowly pass away
A single thought by fear disturbed
What I now swear shall not be heard
No modern mind will know these words
Since all have passed away
09. Breathe
Lie to me
Shelter me
Burn my youth
Rape the truth…
Wound me deep
Watch me bleed
Feel my pain
All the same…
Pain will surely end someday
Nothing here can harm me
Pain will surely end someday
I am a widow of my grief
Cease to breathe
On your knees
Fall asleep
Cry for me…
All we’ve shared
Be prepared
Break my heart
Never part…
Live my dream
Still unseen
Hope has died
So have I…
10. Solace
Will I find solace in a world without tomorrow?
Will I find silence when I fall asleep?
Deep slumber eases pain and all my sorrow
May I never wake up from this final dream
You should be thankful each time I wake up
Another day to learn what patience means
Seems so easy to betray those very moments
That I hide inside my faithful heart
Voices whisper "never say you're sorry"
I never thought this could go so much too far
Have I lost the world outside my conscious?
Finally reached the desert of failed dreams
11. Life's Last Shore
I found a way to just forget
To leave these days without regret
May they mourn and may they cry
Remembrance will stay alive
Sin so far away from silence
This is where I long to be
Another death to teach alliance
When will this empty world teach me?
An endless path through gloomy air
I implore thee, angel, never dare
To follow me until the end
I hope you’ll never understand
Blessed I feel this world to leave
In the beauty of a silent eve
I’ve known this long before
So I will drown on life’s last shore
12. Borrowed Life
On silent shores we once stood
Listening to the waves
Slipping into distant dreams
Free to become slaves
In cloudless nights we once awoke
Staring at the lack of light
Hiding before worlds unseen
Free to ignore their sight
Teardrops falling down
So mortal and sublime
I shiver as I speak
Beneath the dawn of time
In dreamless sleep we once arrived
Breathing impulse, borrowed life
13. Paralyzed
She noticed it in the way that he talked
She knew that he did not say what he thought
She just could wait for the time
He decided he would give her a sign
To stay... or to go away...
He was her harbour, her home
Always there but also always alone
She forgot he wasn’t stronger than her
And sometimes he needed someone to care
He couldn’t say "I want you to stay..."