Omar Rodríguez-López

Ultra-prolific composer, guitarist, and producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was created in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in 1975. He spent his formative years in SC and Un Paso, Texas, establishing camp within the last mentioned and developing the hardcore music group Startled Leg at age 15. He became a member of post-hardcore outfit On the Drive-In in 1993, a gig that lasted before band split up on the peak of its reputation in 2001. Rodriguez-Lopez shaped the Mars Volta the next year, in addition to an instrumental aspect project known as the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet. He constructed the soundtrack to Jorge Hernandez Aldana’s Un Búfalo de la Noche in 2005 and it has released four solo albums — 2004’s Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack, Vol. 1, the eponymous Omar Rodriguez in 2006, and Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo as well as the Apocalypse Within an Orange, both in 2007. Rodriguez-Lopez would continue his dual produces in 2008 with Calibration and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Jeremy Michael Ward, a collaborative work that was documented before the development of Mars Volta. Aged Cash, Megaritual, Despair, and Xenophanes (that was sung totally in Spanish by Rodriguez-Lopez and his duet partner, the Mexican vocalist/songwriter Ximena Sariñana) all implemented in ’09 2009. The guitarist and composer continuing his brisk discharge pace this year 2010 with Solar Playing, Cizaña de los Amores and Tychozorente, and the next year saw a lot more brand-new material emerged. In 2012, following the loss of life of his mom, Rodriguez-Lopez made a decision to place the brakes on his active solo career and commence collaborating once again. He founded experimental art-rockers Bosnian Rainbows with ex-Mars Volta member Deantoni Parks, Le Butcherettes vocalist Teri Gender Bender, and keyboardist Nicci Kasper, and released an eponymous record using the group in 2013. He also began the greater rock-oriented Antemasque alongside longtime collaborator Cedric Bixler-Zavala along with a spinning ensemble of players that included Flea, Travis Barker, Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez, and Dave Elitch. Antemasque released their eponymous debut record in 2014. 2016 became another occupied 12 months, with Antemasque issuing their second full-length outing, Saddle around the Atom Bomb, a reunion tour with In the Drive-In, and a fresh romantic relationship with Ipecac that noticed Rodriguez-Lopez clearing his single vaults and liberating an recording bi-weekly through the finish of the entire year.