Maquiladora create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band.

This is the natural sound of the sands of Alta California aglow in warm sunshine and awash in the cool blue Pacific. This is the sound of the golden landscape, a buzz with honey bees, sea breezes, and the spirit of natives and first Californians who came to live and love here. Tucked in the southwest corner of the US is San Diego, a city bordered on the north by suburban trail to Los Angeles, to the west by the spirit of the Pacific Ocean, to the east by the vast dimension of the Borrego Desert, and to the sound by the cacophony of sites and sounds that makes Tijuana, home of the busiest international border crossing in the World. Why the geography lesson? Because all these are constant source of inquiry and inspiration for Maquiladora. The band's name comes from their birth in a warehouse ("Maquiladora" is the Mexican term for a sweatshop). Lyrics were written on travels both foreign and internal. Albums recorded in former funeral chapels, warehouses, school halls and attics that send a homing call to resonant sounds that travel to places both familiar and strange. Made up of a painter, a stage actor and an elementary school headmaster, these musicians play for the love of it and find time in their lives to present their music in special places, switching instruments between players from so.......
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Zremasterowane, podwójne wydanie czarodziejskiej muzyki Maquiladora (Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie i Phil Beaumont) - kolekcja utworów z lat 1995 - 2002, plus dziewięć wcześniej niepublikowanych. W nagraniach udział wzięło wielu znakomitych gości, m.in.: Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession, Mr. Tube), Tobias Nathaniel (Black Heart Procession) i Lynn (The God Machine). Instrumentarium stanowiły gitary, bębny, Hammond, pianino, ksylofon, akordeon, gitara stalowa, flet, a nawet piłka golfowa i inne.
Dwie płyty - White Sands oraz Ritual of Hearts. Naturalne dźwięki złotego krajobrazu Kaliforni, gdzie słoneczna spiekota nad pustynią styka się z orzeźwiającym błękitem Pacyfiku. Bzyczenie miodolubnych pszczół, morska bryza i kakofonia molochu San Diego. Pustelnicza i rytualna otoczka jaką stara się wytworzyć zespół prowadzi w psychodeliczny folk, nad którym unosi się pamięć o osadnikach, którzy przybyli na te tereny i pokochali je.


Maquiladora create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band.

This is the natural sound of the sands of Alta California aglow in warm sunshine and awash in the cool blue Pacific. This is the sound of the golden landscape, a buzz with honey bees, sea breezes, and the spirit of natives and first Californians who came to live and love here. Tucked in the southwest corner of the US is San Diego, a city bor.......
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