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This is the sound of what you don t want, still in you. This is the sound of what you don t believe, still true. Saul Williams (again) This is the sound of what you don t know killing you.
Quotes from two Volta compatriots offer a relevant lead-in: The things you speak to can shape your world. But others are willing to acknowledge that most metaphysics may just be the elements of physics our brains can t quite comprehend yet, and that there is a great power in words, and in belief. Perhaps it s best to insert a prologue for this tale stating that some (cynics, pragmatists, people who would like their life to be more boring) may instantly respond with rolled-eyes and disbelief. Which brings us to the now, on the eve of the release of The Mars Volta s stunning new recording.
And you know, as I do, that if the Volta comes to your town for a show that you have to be there or a little bit of your soul dies. If you do have them then you know exactly what I m talking about and you re anticipating The Bedlam in Goliath more than any other record this year.
Point Being: If you don t have these albums, you need them. Saul Williams, no slouch when it comes to rocking a stage, once joked that he rushed through his opening sets just so he could watch the Volta sooner. The tours supporting each of these albums have proven that The Mars Volta is an endlessly ambitious group intent on turning a standard concert into something transformative that can best be described as an aural blitzkrieg. The soaring intensity of the single Viscera Eyes alone is worth the admission. Omar worked as a director/conductor/visionary, writing all the music and providing motivation, while Cedric stretched his vocals and lyrics around multi-tiered songs aboutĢ things like modern witch-burnings, cultural oppression, and madness. Most recently they released Amputechture, their first album with no central concept (aside from stretching the boundaries of their prior musical achievements). If De-Loused was a dark album, this thing is obsidian. For this record and the remainder since, Omar has produced solo, dropping some of the pop sheen that Rick Rubin brought to the first album in favor of more experimental textures and structures. Next came Frances the Mute, an album with a central plot, based, sadly, on the loss of another friend (this time fellow musician and bandmate Jeremy Ward). The album was huge in terms of exposure, influence, and raw momentum. Then they released De-Loused In The Comatorium, an astonishing album that served as both an elegy for and celebration of their friend Julio Venegas (as told through the fictional character Cerpin Taxt whose life-and-death travails are chronicled via the songs). They grabbed a few other intrepid musicians and recorded The Tremulant EP, which was incredible and weird and proved these guys were trailblazing far from the paths tread by their prior band, At the Drive-In. And so I present A Very Brief History of The Mars Volta : Back at the turn of the century guitarist/producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala decided to form a musical partnership called The Mars Volta. But right now, before we drag any new passengers on the Volta Express into the lunacy of The Bedlam in Goliath, we ve got to bring them up to speed. And I swear we ll get to all of that in a second. 1 The Mars Volta s Descent Into Bedlam: A Rhapsody in Three Parts The genesis of The Mars Volta s new album The Bedlam in Goliath is one of the weirdest stories in the history of modern music, a tale of long-buried murder victims and their otherworldly influence, of strife and near collapse, of the long hard fight to push the record that did not want to be born out into the world.