Now Begins the 12 Daze of Crazemas - The First Daze

This following set of shares are for everyone that I didn't get to with a personal gifting: for jonder, Stinky, & Art58koen; for Reb & Rob & Rev; for Brian, Richard, Inertia, Pat Trip Dispenser, aboynamedstew & all the others that I've inadvertantly overlooked; for all the anonymous commentors & non-commentors; for the lurkers & leechers; for everyone that gives purpose to this here misadventure. 

Wishing you all hippie, hoppy, holly Daze.

The 12 Daze of Crazemas

Last year I shared the 12 Dubs of Crazemas, a set of twelve releases from Mad Professor in the Dub Me Crazy series.

Here's another set of Craziness. In 2016, Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López announced that he would somehow manage to find time away from his other bands of the time:At The Drive In; Antemasque; & Bosnian Rainbows to release 12 new solo albums, one every two weeks from July 15th until December 16th on Mike Patton's Ipecac Records. On July 15, 2016 he released Sworn Virgins & reaching #12 on December 16 with Some Need it Lonely.

Omar's main diversion, the Mars Volta entered a hiatus in September 2012. Rodríguez-López started a new project, Bosnian Rainbows, then he & fellow MV Cedric Bixler-Zavala reunited in 2014 for a new project, Antemasque, then there were further At the Drive-In tours & recording sessions.

These releasess all contain material recorded between 2008-2013 & feature contributions from frequent Mars Volta collaborators. The first release is Sworn Virgins which features Le Butcherettes / Bosnian Rainbows Teri Gender Bender & Mars Volta / Bosnian Rainbows multi-instrumentalist Deantoni Parks.

If this doesn't qualify as Craziness, I don't know beans (well, OR-L did go on to release ten more albums basically every two weeks in 2017 finishing the madness with Doom Patrol). Here's the first Daze... 

 

Omar Rodríguez-López - Sworn Virgins, Ipecac Recordings IPC-ORL 1, July 15, 2016.
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Pineapple Face    
Not Even Toad Loves You    
To Kill a Chi Chi    
Trick Harpoon Stare of Baby    
High Water Hell    
Saturine    
Crow's Fest    
Heart Mistakes    
Logged into Bliss    
Fortuna    
Twice a Plague

 

 

Nary Crazemas,
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