Omar Rodriguez Lopez manages to be active constantly. Known as "little dictator" in The Mars Volta, brain At the Drive-In and fundamental part of Bosnian Rainbows, he has released a new album: Sowrn Virgins (Ipecac Recordings, 2016), the first of a series of twelve deliveries will show every 15 days until the end of the year.
This is not necessarily the solo debut of Omar in plan, if you count all the previous works, we find that we are in the presence of his album number 27. Sworn Virgins simply shows the start of an ambitious project dedusting all recordings made before death of his mother.
In the end he decided to leave his role as soloist not before exposing all these discs will initially digital, with limited editions on CD and twelve plates BoxSet with his record label agreed to edit.
His accomplice Deantoni Parks helped to shape these eleven songs, with a necessary and well - managed battery use. Post Rock Experimental electronic winks in which Omar uses his voice, guitar solos as in "Crow's feet", dark riffs and synths.
At the moment "Not even toad loves you" traces the compositional arc that begins in "Pineapple face" all the sound relief of Rodriguez Lopez begins to evoke even a facet that feeds the new wave or the same New Romantics of "to Kill a Chi Chi", the single from which he co-directed his videclip presentation.
"Mistakes Heart" has that influence Zappa already had previous productions Omar. Another envelope theme is "Fortuna", the rigidity of the battery makes hypnotic and memorable.
Sworn Virgins starts with good standing ambition created or, in this case, encouraged by her record company, who saw the potential of this material summarizing the prolific passage through which Omar was concentrated in the period in which they were gestated songs.
We are talking about that in these six months we will have at least more than 120 songs courtesy of restless and creative Omar Rodriguez Lopez.
Here the release dates of their next productions to follow their trail.
