Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Despair
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Description: | CD on Willie Anderson |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Label: | Willie Anderson | |
| Price: | £10.49 | |
| Cat#: | WAR012CD | |
| Availability: | despatched in 2-5 working days (on average!!) |
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What their label says...
Fans of The Mars Volta will undoubtedly be aware of Omar Rodriguez Lopez's visit to Israel in 2006, an event with great influence and repercussions on that band's 2008 album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Prior to beginning the studio sessions for 'Bedlam', Rodriguez Lopez recorded 'Despair', a nihilistic and disturbing meditation on his experiences in and around Jerusalem culled from field recordings and studio experimentation. A nightmarish pastiche of drones, noise, feedback, and unrecognizable audio hallucinations, Rodriguez Lopez has, appropriately, compared the experience of listening to the album as not unlike that of a "bad acid trip". Cryptic titles such as "Liebe Ist Kalter Als Der Tod" and "Angst Vor Der Angst" provide little clue for the non-German speaker of what the various compositions have in store, an intentional suggestion of the disorientation and anxiety housed within the record's grooves. 'Despair' challenges the listener and no will no doubt be divisive amongst Volta fans.
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