MORANTE, The Nocturnal Watcher was born in the darkness of a dream, fantasy of Gabriel Nisisaki (first bass player of the band) who gives the name to the project and that altogether with Antonio Chávez decided to conform.
MORANTE is a being who travels within your dreams while you sleep, seizing and manipulating them to it's whole will, without nobody alters it's conduct, without nobody gives orders to it, without spell, nor rite that can protect you. In words of the own Gabriel: "An ambivalent and dark being that lives in the darknesses, with the gift to affect the dreams, returning them violent or calm, nobody prevails neither affects it's conduct, without conscience between good or bad. With it's light it can guide us towards life or death".
It is in 19th August 2000, Mexico City where the meeting of these five people takes place although at first it was not that way.
Making music by the love they feel for it, without having political purpose, this guys wish to say something to the people who want to listen to them traveling by those dreams or those nightmares.
The lyrics of the songs approach fantastic, epic, ontologic, spiritual and social subjects, in their auditive images appear demons, ghosts, dragons, the death and such humans, treating all of them like special beings of this multiverse in which we live; all this under Gothic Metal power chords.
MORANTE is a band with an original proposal, that has taken it's music to places like: Cafe Rock Center, Rock Stock, Comic's Rock Show, T.N.T. en el Centro de Convenciones de Tlatelolco, UTA Underground, La Madre Diabla, El Circo Volador, Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, Radio City Hall, and the states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, San Luis Potosi, among others. Also it has participated in events of altruistic character as the Comunion Por La Existencia Festival that was carried out in the first edition in 2005 in benefit of the victims through Tsunami in Asia and in 2006 year in a new campaign for the affected ones by the Hurricanes Stan & Wilma in Chiapas, Mexico.
In this time MORANTE has recorded two independent productions, first "Ausencia y FantasÃa" (Absence and Fantasy) and the second "NEWRON O.S.T." for CLIPS Magazine, the first Soundtrack for an Mexican and independent comic magazine. Also the band collaborated with 3 themes for Soundtrack of the independent short film called La Tierra de Nod - El Estigma (The Land of Nod - The Estigma), as well also participated with the theme El Principio del Fin for the Tribute to Angeles del Infierno and in the Tribute to Luzbel II with the song Resucitando el Sentido.
The new MORANTE's production called El Vigilante Nocturno (The Nocturnal Watcher) was released in November last year and contains 4 themes of the repertoire of the band in it's definitive versions as well as an unpublished theme in English.
Alucinaciones
Morante Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
danzan frente a mis ojos
y gritan en mis oídos.
Pero uno solo se posesiona de mí,
me hace gritar, me hace llorar,
me marchita, me seca,
me inunda, me ahoga.
Con dolor, con rencor
con miseria, con horror,
mis ojos se niegan a ver
y mi mente se niega a creer,
sé que no existe, que no está,
mas no dejo de temer.
Y se burla de mí,
se posesiona de mí,
me hace gritar, me hace llorar,
me hace matar, me va a matar.
In Morante's song Alucinaciones, the singer talks about their hallucinations - specifically, the demons they see in front of their eyes. The nameless, shapeless demons dance and scream in the singer's ears, but one particular demon possesses them, hurting and tormenting the singer in every way possible. The demon makes the singer scream, cry, wither, dry up, overflow and suffocate, inducing pain, hatred, misery, and terror within the singer's mind. The singer's eyes refuse to see and their mind refuses to believe that this demon exists, but they can't help but fear it. The demon taunts and possesses the singer, making them scream, cry and eventually threatens to kill them.
At its core, the song seems to be about the inner demons that people face from time to time when they are troubled or dealing with a difficult situation. The nameless, shapeless demons in the song could be interpreted as the various fears, doubts, anxiety, and negative emotions that one can face. The demon that possesses the singer in the song could be the climax that the singer feels at their lowest point, where their fears and anxiety become overwhelming, almost consuming the singer. Morante's song speaks to how trauma and negative emotions can take over someone's life and lead them into a dark place.
Line by Line Meaning
Demonios amorfos,
Shapeless demons,
danzan frente a mis ojos
dance in front of my eyes
y gritan en mis oídos.
and scream in my ears.
Pero uno solo se posesiona de mí,
But only one possesses me,
me hace gritar, me hace llorar,
makes me scream, makes me cry,
me marchita, me seca,
it withers me, it dries me up,
me inunda, me ahoga.
it floods me, it drowns me.
Con dolor, con rencor
With pain, with resentment
con miseria, con horror,
with misery, with horror,
mis ojos se niegan a ver
my eyes refuse to see
y mi mente se niega a creer,
and my mind refuses to believe,
sé que no existe, que no está,
I know it doesn't exist, that it's not there,
mas no dejo de temer.
but I still fear it.
Y se burla de mí,
And it mocks me,
se posesiona de mí,
it possesses me,
me hace gritar, me hace llorar,
makes me scream, makes me cry,
me hace matar, me va a matar.
makes me kill, it's going to kill me.
Contributed by Landon K. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
THE PRINCESS OF CRAFT AVT
A MI ME GUSTA LA CANCIÓN, LA MÚSICA, LA LETRA Y LA INTERPRETACIÓN DE LA VOCALISTA NO ESTÁ MAL ES UNA VOZ ORIGINAL A SU ESTILO
Esmeralda VG
A mí me encanta la canción, lo demás es lo de menos
Karasu
No se necesita ser Soprano. Se trata de el tema a tratar en sus canciones. Pero como muchos solo ven la punta del iceberg.
Caro Bones
jaja estoy de acuerdo, la voz no favorece