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MANIA SOUR

by Eyeless In Gaza

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1.
. the pulse of the rain, knocking along the walls and the doors/marking a humming refrain of warming noise/mapping out a setting for a sympathy that found me almost unprepared unawares for the glowing that I saw/yr voices yr words scrambling across the page/they’re living/they’re still breathing breath into all the empty air marking a clearing thru to yr heart: that is the balm that soothes all harsh broken lies away/listen now to the sigh of the falling music/there to emphasise yr voices yr words scrambling across the pages over to me/yr thought yr heart yr want sears and never fades out/from you here to me sounding in the empty air/crossing the pages clearly/a pathway that I have found out/so unaware, so unprepared for the glowing/the rhythm there that I saw .
2.
Aether Tears 03:39
yr hidden laugh/yr sheltering hand /yr chasing glance /yr vanishing stance /yr eyes are glass/yr eyes are a-fire/to draw you out to invite you to cry/ aether tears/salt water /sweet taste/a ether tears/shall run shall race/yr will sighs, it sighs and it waits/yr distance fades/you recall yr light/yr secret smil /yr opening alive /you fill the room /yr silence has gone/yr moving in/ to where you belong/aether tears/light in yr face/aether tears taking yr place / aether tears, salt water, sweet taste/aether tears shall run shall race/yr will bends it sighs as it waits/and it bends, and it breaks .
3.
. instrumental .
4.
Pleasing 01:17
. fragments of breaking light clinging to marbling/where the dark once has been/in such a shimmering stumbling awakening, threading these single calls /shattering within it all/dance in the dust we make/opening the summer in /making it plain as day /making the skies begin to break up in the breaking sun/cry as the dark is done/changing to dust at rest / dust in the form of flesh .
5.
ESP 03:56
faster flowing/flowing over, flooding over all/and how they run/brimming over, over - so inviolate/they speak and they stun/faster flooding flaming trusting staring flooding into me /and I’m so undone /and I’m opening into you/open/opening/an opened face that reflects the sun/have I ever known you in silence?/ have I ever known you be unsung?/ mystery /this, my story/mystery appears to me /takes me where I would not choose to belong /to dance in answers /riddling, snaking /entwining me /like plummeting stones/berating me, believing me in stark disbelief/into depths unknown/and you are waiting/and I’m unready/you are present / and I’m gone/still yr faster flowing over and inside me now /tho I don’t invite you to come .
6.
First Songs 03:41
. yr clawing at words /you want to touch the reasons/the shape, the notes, the flavor and the meaning / under yr skin is a word/one that defied you / and you find yr divining blood and stone /and I can’t believe what I’m hearing now /I can’t believe what yr telling now /I don’t believe yr hearing yr first songs /for all of the songs you sang so proud /yr choosing to forget them now /and I don’t believe yr hearing yr first songs / and, tears so strange will hail the place yr reaching / the hidden- deep place, the oceans that yr breaching /crossing the waters is a shock / opening miracles for yrself / like being lost and being born to yr first songs / and, I can’t believe what I’m hearing now, what yr telling now /I don’t’ believe yr hearing yr first songs /that this is the first time yr coming round / as if true nature’s showing now /and yr breaking in thru to sunlight - but, yr wrong .
7.
Inward 01:43
. instrumental .
8.
Constancy 02:45
. come the midnight, deeper midnight /run down the sky/bring the morning, flow the morning feast of pure delight /this the day/this summer’s day – the day flying by/any day could be this - could be A PRIZE .
9.
Mania Sour 02:45
I see you/I see you seething every day / I see you, mania-sour /reeling, sealing scenes in disarray /a liar ought to have a good memory / I loved yr sayings – yr tongue twisted ways /I see you, mania-sour /yr words betray / and I rue the day that I see you, mania-sour / and how I believed you once upon a day I see you mania-sour / falling manic on the necks of yr prey / a liar ought to have a good memory /for I loved yr sayings / every step of the way /I see you mania-sour /yr words betrayed /and I rue the day that I saw you/hated mania-sour .
10.
. see the hiding fever burning bright /as yr watching you offer up yr eyes / torn into my sight /you offer up yr eyes /see the hiding fever burning bright / and I’ll walk beside you /and I’ll know no fear /no betrayal here / this place alive that I live /somewhere inside, you bear the mark of love / buried treasure hides, safekeeping all you touch /drinking down the rain of tears /light streams from yr sight /see the hiding fever burning bright.
11.
Old Iron 02:50
instrumental .
12.
Double World 03:00
you see me-sometimes I’m so elated/such adrenalin can flow / i am in the heart now, such euphoria / still i’m somehow saying ‘no’ / a double world / a double feeling / a double mind /a double meaning showing / a double world i’m torn between - a double will that’s failing me, i know / and oh, how its changing every day /i’m tired of trying / losing balance/ there’s a double weakness showing / I’m caught between them / torn in pieces / still forever saying ‘no’ /and oh how it changes every day .
13.
Day Of Doves 03:43
every so often comes a white dove day /I am forgotten and I’m torn far away / to see yr face / struck on a stranger’s face /a chorus of cries within the melodies of beauty I’d espied /and the sweetness dies /the beauty falls away / the music like a lie on a wracked, mistaken face /I see a pity in the smile that I desired /broken-faced / and the music strikes like pain and betrayal /and I‘m flung far away / such driven disbelief /harsh notes among the melodies that run a sweet and laughing day /a barbed reminder of the words that you must tell / never again /and the music strikes like pain and betrayal and I am torn away /on a white dove day.
14.
The Rock 03:14
traces and trails all leading thru / threading these tunings entwining hues /and as we listen /over and more this constant remains /staying at the core /this is the rock /the centering space /this gathering place /this is the rock /we find such music /between the high trees /we find such flowers/to open and breath/and when were listening / thru this maze of days, drawn to a pattern made/and we make /this is the rock /the centering mind this is the rock/truth a friend finds .
15.
Teddy Edward 05:38
instrumental .

about

• Completed June 2014 and recorded at Hansa Studios, Berlin and at A-Scale Studios, Nuneaton UK, MANIA SOUR serves up a somewhat different twist on soundworlds which Eyeless in Gaza have inhabited – perhaps suggesting new parallels on the abrasive stylings displayed on the band’s early 80’s classic albums Photographs As Memories/Caught In Flux .

* A blend of clanging electrics & full-on percussion, MANIA SOUR presents a (mostly) brash, strident set of Eyeless songs - and with the core of the album having been recorded ‘live’ in the studio, MANIA SOUR is quite the Eyeless e-guitar/drum fuelled album par excellence .

• Songs : these address inner worlds, inner spaces, delicate and violent possession, sharpened perceptions, and, significantly, the cry of the eternal – the ‘first songs’ of the will and how they find voice in the world – offering up glimpses of the madness of joy and, ways in which all of us increasingly find that it is only *you* that can save your own life

* Remember! ... “If we are everywhere complicit, we are also everywhere active….”.

credits

released May 5, 2022

MARTYN BATES : E-guitars/Voices/Clarinet/A-Guitar/Piano/Tapes
PETER BECKER : Drums/Bass/Voice/A-Guitar/Percussions/Slide-Guitar/E. Piano/Drum-Machine/Radio.
All songs by Martyn Bates & Peter Becker .
Recorded at Hansa Studios & A-Scale Studios, UK .
Produced by Eyeless In Gaza .
Engineered & Recorded By Peter Becker .
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering .
Completed June 2014 .

www.eyelessingaza.com
* WRITE to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com to receive infos re limited edition Ambivalent Scale CD version of this album) .(CD comes in beautiful triptych full colour artwork . signed editions available on request .

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Biog stuff? It’s always changing. Re creativity, a wise man said: ‘‘It doesn’t matter where, as long as it’s out of this world’’. This seems a good way to feel about it all ... the music should be like a drugged dream, poem, hope, prayer - probably a blues .
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