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Vol. 6

The Golden Mantis

Born With Too Much Love

Too Much Love

From Cigarettes After Sex LP out now:
https://cigsaftersex.lnk.to/cas

website: http://www.cigarettesaftersex.com/

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K.                                                                                                        

recorded December 2015 in Brooklyn, NY

Written by Greg Gonzalez
Greg Gonzalez - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Phillp Tubbs - keyboards
Randy Miller - bass
Jacob Tomsky - drums

Recorded by Greg Gonzalez
Mixed by Rocky Gallo
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Cover photo by Resa Rot
Cover design by Randy Miller

Released on Partisan Records

Lyrics and Vocals - Eduardo
All Guitars, Bass and Production - Al (mille mercis, fré'nch!!!!)
Drums - Eduardo (...with a helping hand from Al https://soundcloud.com/alzzed)

Robot Life 
I've been enjoying my fridays
with my tired brain
I have to find a good way
just to heal my pain
my vision in slow motion
I almost hear a sign
looks like the time stoped
now my breath is calm

(2x)
It's just a break time in my robot life
Yeah soon I'll go back to the run again

Yeah, I remember childhood
And my simple plans
projecting my own spaceship
to explore the universe
yeah I don't know what went wrong
but I lost my way
but I still have hope to be a child again

(2x)
It's just a break time in my robot life
Yeah soon I'll go back to the run again

Picture: Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (Japan TV Series 1967–1968) IMDb

Robot Life ( Al'Z Collaboration)

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

The Boy & His Dolphin - For Roly Wynne

Nobody Knows

Released 10th December on Dance to the Radio.
www.dancetotheradio.com
Listen on Spotify / Apple Music etc: smarturl.it/farcaspian

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Joel Johnston

Mastered by Carl Rosamond

I drew outside by the front porch last night
And you know why
I’m terrified 
And all the things you said fell by my side
You ask why
Preoccupied 

When it’s all said and done
You can change your mind
But something tells me we should be sharing the night
When it’s all said and done
You can read your lines
But something tells me we should be sharing this light 

Tried to figure out the way to feel this life
Don’t know why 
I just lay 
Worrying about the things you said in July
Keep on time 
Forgive my mind 

When it’s all said and done 
you can change your mind 
But all this tells me 
We should be sharing the night 
When it’s all said and done 
Rearrange the time
Something tells me we should be sharing this light

Waiting for the day
Waiting for the time
All I could say

July

red wave

the fist to the sky
the voices in air
they are filling the city with protest
they are swinging the banner
and stand up for their rights
get they never tired to fight?

in front of the mirror, the truest friend of all
the old bitch get sorry, she is no more what she was
and she is emptying her glas
and painting her lips
in a red, red, red, red wave

red wave, the red wave so different and the same
red wave, for you we find no name
red wave, red wave so different and the same
red wave, for you we find no name

a man in his car
his spirit flies so far
he is hunting on a grey stone street
so hard are the trees, embracing him pleased
he is doing now the red, red wave

red wave, red wave so different and the same
red wave, for you we find no name, no name
red wave, red wave, so different and the same
red wave, for you we find no name

17.12.2019

Red Wave

Vocals By Tante Meli, https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli
Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed & Marcus Swambo. https://soundcloud.com/helenswambo

Alone In This Town Feat Tante Meli

Music, lyrics and vocals by Irina
Guitar by AB

Featured on BBC Radio 6 Introducing Mixtape by Tom Robinson on 10.02.2020

One day, I don't know when
But scientifically speaking it is highly likely
When we meet again
I'll have a crush on you
You'll have no clue
What you have to say
You'll even try to run away
But soon enough you've got to see
You've got to have a crush on me

One day, one lucky day
Our hormone levels fluctuate and regulate our choices
When we meet again
One day, one lucky day
I'll pour some chemistry for you
I'll share biology with you
And soon enough you've got to see
You've got to have a crush on
Me gotta have a crush on
You gotta have a crush on me

You've Gotta Have A Crush On Me

Hello everybody, it took a long time until we were emotionally able to record and release this song. It is dedicated to a very good friend and former band member, who unfortunately left this world much too early.

the fountain
I didn´t thought that this would be the way I see you again. 
Me blind from tears and you in a chest, 
never known parents and friends. 
I´m bleeding on since two and half weeks, 
it seems there is no end in sight. 
Now they play your song, that makes everything worse, 
because  it´s beautiful and the sound is so bright.
Look everything is perfekt. 
Even the sun shines from a sky of blue. 
God it feels nearly like celebration, only we are missing you.
I leaned in the roses, I don´t felt the thorns, 
so I lost one drop blood down the way.
But the sun will be shining, there´s a smile on each face, 
when we all meet again, one day.

The Fountain

Welcome to our first official single "To die in winter". It is now available on all streaming and download platforms (Spotify, Deezer, Amazon music, YouTube Music, Apple music, Google play and many more).  We hope you like our new work.

To die in winter

The human word is like a splittered vessel
On which I drum the strangest melodies

Maybe bears will find them nice to dance for
While what I want is to move the stars above me

And so we keep to live misunderstanding
These clumby words performed by our tongues

To die in winter
Is better than 
Living in spring
Without a care
To die in winter
Is not so bad
As going alone
In spring ahead
To die in winter
I can explain
Brighter the sun
Bigger the vail

Your glance is dumb
And leaves me always in doubt
I never know if I got what you mean
Maybe now I am missing my big fortune
But eyes do lie and I will not believe
So I keep trusting in what you ever tell me
The sound is great, it needn’t to make sense

To die in winter
Is better than 
Living in spring 
Without a care
To die in winter is not so bad
As going alone in spring ahead
To die in winter
Let me explain
Brighter the sun
Bigger the vail
Brighter the sun
Bigger the vail

To Die In Winter

Welcome to the exclusive Soundcloud pre-release of our second single "Disturb". It will be released on all streaming and download portals on March 26th. On Soundcloud you already have the chance to listen to it. We hope you like the song.
Debut 6-track Mini-Abum (EP) The Golden Mantis coming soon.

Disturb

This song is from our debut EP The Golden Mantis. It's about finding the right leaders.

Poor Man

This is our first German single from the upcoming album "Amerika". Please listen and enjoy.

Here are the lyrics in English and German:

America
 
I wish you were America
then it wouldn't be so hard.
Transatlantic, overseas
I would be with you.

But you, you stand here beside me
and more than a sea lies between you and me.

I wish you were America
that is only seemingly far away.

But sooner or later
I could see the coast.
On these narrow sides I liked to snuggle up.
And I let my boat drift, and put it in the harbour.

But you, you stand here beside me and more than a sea lies between you and me.

Understand, America is almost here, the continent is getting closer,
than I have ever been to you.

Because you, you stand here beside me and more than one sea lies between you and me.


Amerika
 
Ich wollt du wärst Amerika,
dann wär es nicht so schwer.
Transatlantisch, Übersee
schon wär ich bei dir.
 
Doch du, du stehst hier neben mir
und mehr als ein Meer liegt zwischen dir und mir.
 
Ich wollt du wärst Amerika,
das ist nur scheinbar fern.
Doch früher oder später
könnte ich die Küste sehen.
An diesen schmalen Seiten schmiegt ich mich gerne an
und ließ ich mein Boot treiben, legt es im Hafen an.
 
Doch du, du stehst hier neben mir
und mehr als ein Meer liegt zwischen dir und mir.
 
Verstehe doch,
Amerika ist schon beinah da.
Der Kontinent rückt näher,
als ich dir jemals war.
 
Denn du, du stehst hier neben mir
und mehr als ein Meer liegt zwischen dir und mir.

Amerika

Please welcome our second German single "Zeit".

Zeit

03/09/2020

Du schläfst, du träumst

Dein Gesicht

The Golden Mantis are the Mannheim/Germany based musicians Silvia Subosco and Roger Münzenmayer.

In the mid 80s they already played together in The Valentines, one of the most exciting Mannheim bands at that time. When the group split up at the end of the 90s, this did not mean the musical end of the two of them at the same time. Silvia continued to compose magical songs in her idiosyncratic style and Roger continued to develop his creativity in many regional band projects.
 
In 2019, they finally came together again as The Golden Mantis to re-set the repertoire that had been created over the past years. Words and melodies are Silvia's thing, while Roger's signature is reflected in sound, music and production. The Golden Mantis publish their songs in both German and English.
 
The attempt to describe the band's music must fail miserably, because there is so much personality and emotion involved that every genre drawer creaks. There is only one way to approach them: LISTEN! The Golden Mantis songs are a unique melange. Classic singer/songwriter meets Indie Rock, Dark Folk, Chanson and 80s New Wave. Silvia's deep, warm and often rough voice takes the listener on a flying carpet into a different world - dark, plaintive, confident, warm ... and always emotional. If you follow this trail, her whole magic unfolds, shakes and a letting go is hardly possible.