Maquiladora Announces Track List and Artwork for "Saint Cecilia's Drowning - Ritual of Hearts and White Sands Revisited" 2CD (Acuarela Discos Spain) by Eric Nielsen 5.25.7
Maquiladora will re-release White Sands and Ritual of Hearts with 9 bonus tracks recorded during the same time period as the albums. White Sands was first co-released on Bang! in Belgium and Lotushouse in 2000. It was recorded at the old Union and Beech warehouse (which we shared with Three Mile Pilot and Fluf) and In the Corner (our second studio set up in HIllcrest). Ritual of Hearts was released in 2002 on Better Looking Records and was also recorded In the Corner and at the Saint Cecilia's church/Sledgehammer Theater. Fred Mills of Magnet and Harp called the Ritual of Hearts single "the single of the year." Fred also wrote liner notes for the newly re-mastered albums.

There are many guest appearances on these 2 cd's including Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession and Mr. Tube), Tobias Nathaniel (Black Heart Procession), George Sluppick (Mofro), Morgan Doctor, Sioban Dixon and Krista Nielsen (last three from Chinchilla), Austin Lynn (The God Machine) and more. All of the recording and mixing was done by Maquiladora, except for a few songs mixed by Rafter Roberts and Austin Lynn. The original discs were mastered by Jeff Crouteau and Rafter Roberts respectively with re-mastering done by Kenseth Thibedeau. The bonus tracks were selected from 200 minutes of unreleased material from the time period.

Acuarela Discos in Madrid is set to release this 2cd boxed package with a 12 page booklet of art done by the band and Joe Plummer in late Summer/early Fall. Maquiladora's last disc, "The Gulf" was released on Acuarela in 2006.
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