RELEASED 18.4.2011
Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) has announced the spring 2011 release of a quadruple LP / double CD collection culled from his multiple solo and collaborative albums entitled Telesterion. In celebration of this, Rodriguez Lopez's eponymous band will perform at this year's Coachella Festival and SXSW Music Festival (Sargent House/Rodriguez Lopez Productions showcase). Headlining tour dates are also in the works for late spring, to be announced soon. The extensive 37-song (38 on the vinyl version) Telesterion compilation of the guitarist's work showcases the variety and breadth of explorative artistry spread across his 25 (and counting) solo albums harvested for this release. Telesterion includes a 20-page booklet of artwork and text outlining the scope of his work, with liner notes by longtime friend and Rodriguez Lopez Productions art director Sonny Kay. See Sonny's recollection of their first meeting through to their current collaborations here. Sample “Locomocion Capillar" here and “Shake is for 8th Graders" here, and all of Rodriguez Lopez's albums are available for download here. Telesterion will be available everywhere on Record Store Day, April 16th, 2011 via Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Live 03/19 Austin, TX @ Emo's Annex—SXSW—Sargent House / RLProductions showcase 03/21 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's 03/22 New Orleans, LA @ HOB Parish 04/15 Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival Telesterion Track List
CD 1- Locomocion Capillar (Solar Gambling) Population Council's Wet Dream (Old Money) Amanita Virosa (Xenophanes) Coma Pony (The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange) El Monte T'ai (Calibration) Sex, Consolation for Misery (Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus) Deus Ex Machina (A Manual Dexterity, Soundtrack Vol. 1) Rapid Fire Tollbooth (Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo) Un Buitre Amable Me Pico (Solar Gambling) Half Kleptos (Cryptomnesia) No Hay Mas Respuestas (Cizana De Los Amores) Solenoid Mosque (Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead) Melting Chariots (The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange) Dead Hisses to Match Our Own (Megaritual) How to Bill the Bilderberg Group (Old Money) Polaridad (Tychozorente) La Tirania De La Tradicion (Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo) An Ancient Shrewdness in the Veins (Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus) Noir (Cryptomnesia)
CD 2- Calibration (Calibration) Viernes (Ciencia De Los Inutiles) Spookrijden Op Het Fietspad (Omar Rodriguez) Boiling Death Request a Body to Rest Its Head On (Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo) Victimas Del Cielo (Cizana De Los Amores) Las Flores Con Limon (Solar Gambling) At the Push of a Button (Megaritual) Asco Que Conmueve Los Puntos Erogenos (Xenophanes) The Power of Myth (Old Money) El Todo (Tychozorente) The Palpitations Form a Limit (A Manual Dexterity, Soundtrack Vol. 1) Agua Dulce De Pulpo (Un Escorpion Perfumado) Poincare (Solar Gambling) Shake is for 8th Graders (Cryptomnesia) Atrotecism Fenleon (Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead) Casate Colmillo (The Somnambulists) Desarraigo (Xenophanes) Lunes (Ciencia De Los Inutiles)