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The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium - Exclusive Sky Blue & Dark Green Vinyl 2LP - Pre Order - Released 29th October Early in the formative stages of The Mars Volta, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala distilled the essence of their mission to one simple phrase: “Honour our roots, honour our dead”. This mindset found perfect expression in the group’s 2003 debut full-length, De-Loused In The Comatorium, a song cycle inspired by the life and death of the duo’s old friend, artist and provocateur Julio Venegas. Julio had such a profound influence on us, artistically, spiritually and personally,” says Omar.  
To Cedric, Julio’s story “was surreal and magical. When we were writing De-Loused I was listening to records like The Pretty Things’ SF Sorrow and Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, records that featured a central character throughout. So I thought, to pay tribute to Julio, I’d immortalise him on this album, because he was this unsung hero everyone should know about.” Cedric threaded Julio’s story into the album’s tale of its comatose hero, Cerpin Taxt, suspended in some hinterland between life and death following an overdose. However, this capsule retelling hardly does justice to Cedric’s complex, surreal, hyper-dramatic narrative, unfolding across the album’s eleven tracks and sung in a lexicon that drew upon English, Spanish and new words wholly invented by Ward, Bixler-Zavala and Venegas himself. The music that scored this powerful tale stepped beyond Tremulant’s fusion of Omar’s punk-rock instincts and the Caribbean, African and Latino sounds he’d been brought up on


Tracklist

Disc 1 - Side A 1. Son Et Lumière /  2. Inertiatic ESP /  3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Disc 1 - Side B 1. Tira Me A Las Arañas /  2. Drunkship Of Lanterns /  3. Eriatarka
Disc 2 - Side A 1. Cicatriz ESP /  2. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
Disc 2 - Side B 1. Televators /  2. Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt

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