Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Telesterion
Press Release
Immensely prolific Grammy Award winning recording artist Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) announces the spring 2011 release of a quadruple LP / double CD collection culled from his multiple solo and collaborative albums. In celebration of this, Rodriguez Lopez's eponymous band will perform at this year's Coachella Festival and SXSW Music Festival (Sargent House/Rodriguez Lopez Productions showcase). Headlining tour dates are also in the works for late spring.
The extensive 37-song (38 on the vinyl version) compilation of the guitarist's work, titled Telesterion showcases the variety and breadth of explorative artistry spread across his 25 (and counting) solo albums harvested for this release. For those unsure where to begin discovering Omar's vast catalog, this is a fitting introduction. Telesterion includes a 20-page booklet of artwork and text outlining the scope of his work, with liner notes by longtime friend and Rodriguez Lopez Productions art director Sonny Kay. See Sonny's recollection of their first meeting through to their current collaborations HERE.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez's genre-defying sixteen-year career has resulted in more than 40 albums, a Grammy Award and being deemed among Rolling Stone's "Greatest Guitarists Of All Time." His seminal and critically acclaimed band, At the Drive-In, redefined popular rock music at the end of the last decade. Since that time, in addition to being both a solo artist and leader/composer/producer of the The Mars Volta, Rodriguez Lopez has produced groundbreaking recordings for the likes of Juliette Lewis, Le Butcherettes and collaborated with Hans Zimmer, John Frusciante, and Erykah Badu, to name a few. In the early years of the new millennium, Rodriguez Lopez began filmmaking, familiarizing himself with the process by way of producing two unreleased films (2001’s A Manual Dexterity and 2003’s Letters from Dystopia) in lieu of any formal training. His third film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, is the director’s debut feature release that had it's US Premiere at The Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. Despite a virtually continuous commitment to the process of recording and touring with his various bands, Rodriguez Lopez has managed to complete two more films since, El Divino Influjo De Los Secretos and Boiling Death Request which are both currently in post-production.
Telesterion will be available everywhere on Record Store Day, April 16th, 2011 on Rodriguez Lopez Productions via Sargent House.
Photos
JPG | Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Hi Res
Album Art
JPG | "Telesterion" - HI Res
PDF | "Telesterion" - Liner Notes by Sonny Kay
Videos Official
YOUTUBE | - "Polaridad" From the Album Tychozerente
YOUTUBE | - "Agua Dulce De Pulpo" From the Album Un Escorpion Perfumado
YOUTUBE | - "asco que conmueve los puntos erógenos" From the Album Xenophanes
YOUTUBE | - "Miercoles" From the Album Ciencia de los Inutiles (Acoustic)
Videos Live
YOUTUBE | - "Live From LA WIP I " - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
YOUTUBE | - "Live From LA WIP II " - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
YOUTUBE | - "Live From LA WIP III" - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
Contact
Label -
Management - Cathy Pellow at Sargent House
Booking - Dave Kaplan-
Publicity - Dave Clifford - US/THEM Group
Links
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Digital (Full Album Streams)
Official Site
Facebook
Twitter
Wikipedia Page
All content © 2011 RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ / SARGENT HOUSE