Calibration

Personnel: Omar Rodr?guez-L?pez (vocals, guitar, Clavinet, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer, drum machine); John Frusciante, Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals); Kim Humphreys (violin); Adr?an Terrazas Gonz?lez (woodwinds, percussion); Sara Christina Gross (saxophone); Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez (Clavinet, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Mark "Money Mark" Ramos-Nishita (synthesizer); Thomas Pridgen (drums). Audio Mixer: Shawn Sullivan. Director: Omar Rodr?guez-L?pez. Unknown Contributor Role: Omar Rodr?guez-L?pez. Arranger: Omar Rodr?guez-L?pez. Anyone who has grokked the deep magical hoodoo from Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's solo projects knows he's nothing if not prolific. In 2007 alone he issued a 12" EP with former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki, the barnburner Se Dice Bisonte, No B?falo album, and a five-track EP with spoken word artist, novelist, essayist, and expatriate American artist Lydia Lunch -- on three different labels -- and composed the soundtrack to the Guillermo Arriaga film El Bufalo de la Noche. All of this was apart from his recording, writing, and touring duties as lead guitarist of the knottiest, most admittedly self-indulgent band in rock. Calibration is the logical successor to his Se Dice Bisonte, No B?falo set (an actual rock tribute to Arriaga's film) and the Mars Volta's Bedlam in Goliath, which was released on January 29, 2008, a week before this. That said, don't expect this to be simply a follow-up album in the same vein. Rodriguez-Lopez is far too mercurial for that to be the case. This one is almost equal parts loopy, knotty progressive and experimental rock and electronics. Yes, all the members of the Mars Volta are present in various places, but so are Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (as "vocalist" on "Glosa Picaresca Wou Men") and Money Mark (on synths on "El Monte T'a?" and "...Is Pushing Luck" -- with Cedric Bixler-Zavala from the Volta on vocals) as well other friends and numerous family members. The influence of ar

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