Omar rodriguez lopez discography download torrent

TheyвЂ™ve toured for most of 2016, embedding new guitarist Keeley Davis, breaking Bixler ZavalaвЂ™s vocal chords and their (righteous) anti-crowd-surfing rules as they went. The elephant in the room, the вЂњold t-shirt that doesnвЂ™t fit anymoreвЂќ to quote a RodrГguez-LГіpez interview from 2012 (and at this point, youвЂ™d think the biggest draw) At The Drive-In вЂњreignitedвЂќ unexpectedly with the promise of вЂњnew music this yearвЂќ. Their debut album was perhaps rushed to release and the recorded songs never quite achieved the same lift or gravitas that they found on the road over the subsequent months. YouвЂ™d be forgiven as well for having missed Bosnian Rainbows, the 80s new wave influenced вЂdemocracy and broccoliвЂ™ (democalli? Brococracy?) project borne in VoltaвЂ™s ashes with motorik beat and avant-garde producer Deantoni Parks (who had played with Mars Volta briefly in вЂ™06, rejoining for the groupвЂ™s final album Noctourniquet, and who recently put in a stunning shift on Flying LotusвЂ™s conceptual work YouвЂ™re Dead) new wave synth вЂeducatorвЂ™ Nicci Kasper (who played with Parks in both Kudu and Dark Angels вЂ“ whose ongoing remix projects are a delight) and Teri Gender Bender of Mexican garage-punk outfit Le Butcherettes, who had previously collaborated with RodrГguez-LГіpezвЂ™ on the Octopus Kool-Aid album.

But I will gladly put a case together for arguing that despite a career built from endurance-testing concept albums and a reputation as one of the most visceral and synchronous live groups (through various incarnations and substantive line-up differences), The Mars Volta never quite fulfilled their potential. I havenвЂ™t got much sympathy for the manner in which that great band fell apart: years of miscommunication and unresolved tensions have been cited by various former members, but at this point it feels like exhuming a body for autopsy long past the point which anyone has a vested interest. A low key self-release for pop-pastiche/nostalgia-indulgence Antemasque was perhaps more group therapy for Rodiguez-Lopez and Mars Volta vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala following their unsightly and regrettably public statements regarding each other as Volta dissipated.

Indulgence is another accusation often levelled (like itвЂ™s a bad thing) at RodrГguez-LГіpez, but with analysis, itвЂ™s hard to see the purpose of any truly expressive creative process besides indulgence of the self.Д«ut since erstwhile prog-overlords The Mars Volta fizzled out in 2012, you may be forgiven for wondering what the once prodigious RodrГguez-LГіpez had been up to. Accusations of onanism regarding his output, that вЂhe needs an editorвЂ™, frankly miss the point: when youвЂ™re putting out five records a year, there should be room for experimentation, for making necessary and vital mistakes, for following curiosity and being self-indulgent. Despite involvement with some of the most influential guitar bands of the last twenty years, and with myriad solo releases and collaborative works undertaken in a productivity spurt since 2004 that ridicules the notion of a two-year release cycle, Omar RodrГguez-LГіpez cuts a slightly divisive figure.

Omar rodriguez lopez discography download torrent