For Doug and Don
From the website: http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/marsvoltax28x02x05
Mars Volta’s album, now into a Latin exploration, featuring bongos and piano, continues to develop. Its theme, who guitarist Omar a Rodriguez-Lopez (no relation I assume, to Jennifer) explains is about their late bandmate Jeremy Ward. Ward died of an overdose prior to the release of their debut and this second album is an exploration of his life. He reportedly found a diary in an old car and found that the more he read, the more he felt coincidences and similarities to the life of the author of that diary. This album explores the diary in relation to Jeremy’s life. Deep shit.
So it’s fair to say this is a prog-beast of a concept. But The Mars Volta are none too chuffed about labels and classifications. But how else do I describe it? It is Pink Floyd kaleidoscopic experimentalist concept and Led Zeppelin big haired rockin’. It is quality. It is satisfying music, rich in ideas and excellently executed.
So we were both right.
love-
me
Mars Volta’s album, now into a Latin exploration, featuring bongos and piano, continues to develop. Its theme, who guitarist Omar a Rodriguez-Lopez (no relation I assume, to Jennifer) explains is about their late bandmate Jeremy Ward. Ward died of an overdose prior to the release of their debut and this second album is an exploration of his life. He reportedly found a diary in an old car and found that the more he read, the more he felt coincidences and similarities to the life of the author of that diary. This album explores the diary in relation to Jeremy’s life. Deep shit.
So it’s fair to say this is a prog-beast of a concept. But The Mars Volta are none too chuffed about labels and classifications. But how else do I describe it? It is Pink Floyd kaleidoscopic experimentalist concept and Led Zeppelin big haired rockin’. It is quality. It is satisfying music, rich in ideas and excellently executed.
So we were both right.
love-
me