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Artist: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Album: Despair
Label: Willie Anderson Recordings
Playtime: 38:52 min
Genre: Ambient
URL: http://www.myspace.com/willieandersonrecordings
Rip date: 2009-02-11
Street date: 2009-01-30
Size: 57.05 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 193 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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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. Returning with a "talking
board" which he presented as a gift to his songwriting partner, Cedric Bixler
Zavala, the pair soon found themselves at the center of a series of strange
and somewhat negative phenomena resulting, as Rodriguez Lopez has insisted,
from the presence of the board as well as the overwhleming darkness of his
life during the post-Israel months. 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 will no doubt be devisive
amongst Volta fans.
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01. In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden ( 2:18)
02. Liebe Ist Kalter Als Der Tod ( 2:28)
03. Satansbraten ( 3:20)
04. Angst Essen Seele Auf ( 2:03)
05. Martha ( 1:16)
06. Rio Das Mortes ( 6:14)
07. Warnung Vor Einer Heilgen Nutte ( 1:56)
08. Chinesisches Roulette (14:37)
09. Lola ( 1:33)
10. Angst Vor Der Angst ( 3:07)
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