ENGLISH — Graciela María

Graciela María is a Mexican singer and composer. She studied Theater in Mexico City and later studied piano.

She began her musical career in Mexico and in 2009 she moved to Berlin, which became her home for ten years. During this time she participated in international festivals such as Robot Festival in Bologna Italy, Berlin Next at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Pazz Festival and Fusion in Germany, Indie Earth and Magnetic Fields in Chennai and Rajasthan India. Graciela has released 4 solo albums and many others in collaboration with international artists.

After many years of performing she synthesized her practice into a meditative and therapeutic approach to music and voice. Since 2019 she has been teaching somatic singing workshops where, through sound and vibration, she opens a space for exploration sharing the healing virtues of the voice.

Graciela’s music is constantly evolving, looking for new ways of expression, focused on exploring the sobriety of her sound and the depth of her voice, the presence of contrast, and vibrance when creating through honesty and spontaneity.

DISCOGRAPHY

WE WILL FIND OUR SELVES AGAIN

This EP is made up of three unpublished songs that I wrote during a very specific period of my time in Berlin. During those years I was going through difficult situations in my personal and creative life. Today I can say that these events have been great teachers and the beginning of an internal journey and personal growth. These songs came from a place of hope and solace, but somehow they could not find their place on any of the albums I've released since then.
During this time, deep and lasting friendships also grew, which, like music, have been my support and vital energy.
These songs were mainly made with them, with my friend Simon Houghton, who composed the instrumentation for Sonnenallee and Growing in the Dark, and with Pablo Castagnola and Gianpaolo Camplese who accompany me with their sound on guitar and drums on the song We Will Find Ourselves Again, with the double bass of Simon Houghton.
After years of inner work, chronic pain, listening to that pain, and being thankful for what I learn from it, I want to release these three songs as a way to honor the paths we create. Also because during this process I remembered the child I once was. And the exact moment when I discovered that singing was my refuge and that with it I could move other people.
I would like these songs to be a reminder that what we were is in essence what we are today, and that this internal flame that arises from purity in each one of us, full of truth and creative force, will always be alive.

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CANTO SIETE

Canto Siete represents the organic sound that characterizes the music that Graciela María has made and, on the other hand, traditional music, reinterpreted, transposed, which means, changing places, taking the homeland to another territory. Without falling into the common places that characterize the traditional-folkloric genre, Graciela María gives us variations on themes such as Amor eterno, La llorona or Macorina, where what we really listen to is the soul with which these songs are constituted. The search for Graciela María has led her to experiment with the raw sound of the voice and the truth that it incarnates in the body.

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LOVE LETTERS TO STRANGERS

'Love Letters to Strangers' is the metaphor of two sounds that have met and are divided; the electronic as a past that shaped the first solo work of Graciela María, 'Many Places' (Project: Mooncircle, 2011) and the present that is in a constant purification of sounds and meets the organic and acoustic.
Love letters to strangers explores the raw and real side of the voice creating a different plot for some of the songs that have been recorded on the albums Many Places and 'Olvido' (Project: Mooncircle, 2013). Definitely one of Graciela María's most intimate works.

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OLVIDO

Olvido (Project Mooncircle, 2013) is written in the limits of poetry, when words become music and let memories lose their voice and become a sound or a rumor behind the walls. Piano, cello, violin, accordion make up this album where the voice of Graciela María works as the only antidote to be able to listen to lost time without being trapped by the past. This album is voice, time, travel and poetry.

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MANY PLACES

'Many Places' (Project Mooncircle 2010) is Graciela María's first album. If we listen carefully to this album we can find an intimate narrative that inscribes it in the tradition of artists like Ellioth Smith and Jeff Buckley. Many Places opens a new cycle through the blog of life and there we can glimpse the nostalgia that will culminate in his second album 'Olvido'.

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