Corazones (Omar Rodríguez-López album)

Corazones is the twenty-eighth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on 29 July 2016. It is his second release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings.^[1]

Described as "mournful folk-pop", Corazones features songs originally intended to be used for a film (which eventually failed to materialize). The studio wanted Omar's vocal delivery and music for the film to be as "straight-ahead" as possible and the result he compared to "childlike nursery rhymes." His main inspiration for the songs was his mother, who was terminally ill at the time. Omar stated, "when working with the director and producer, all the themes that were in the film itself were exactly what I was going through: loss, loss of indentity because of such an extreme loss."^[2] After his mother died, Omar decided to hire his friend Sam Margolis to help him finish the production.^[3]

The song "Sea is Rising" made its first studio appearance on 2013's Unicorn Skeleton Mask, while the song was actually debuted instrumentally on the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group 2010 tour.

On August 1, 2016, Pitchfork released a music video for the song "Running Away" directed by Violeta Felix which features John Frusciante, former Mars Volta bassist Eva Gardner, Teri Gender Bender (of Le Butcherettes and Bosnian Rainbows), photographer Robin Laananen, actress Tatiana Velazquez, visual artist Aura T-09 and Buzz Osborne (of The Melvins) all punching Omar in the face.

Track listing

"We Feel The Silence" – 3:48
"Running Away" – 2:55
"It Was Her" – 3:22
"Dead Heart" – 0:44
"Lola" – 2:33
"Sea Is Rising" – 2:47
"Certainty" – 3:25
"Arrest My Father" – 3:04
"Some Sort of Justice" – 3:56
"Five Different Pieces" – 3:31
"If I Told You the Truth I Would Be Made of Lies" – 4:47

Personnel

Musicians:
- Omar Rodríguez-López – vocals, guitars, piano
- Luke Reynolds – guitars, synthesizers, pedal steel guitar, noise
- Marco Giovino – drums, percussion
- Viktor Krauss – bass
- Sam Margolis – harmonica, ukulele
- Teri Gender Bender – backing vocals (2, 3, 8-10)

Technical:
- Omar Rodríguez-López – production
- Sam Margolis – production, engineering
- Eric Masse – engineering
- Jon Debaun – engineering
- Chris Common – engineering, mixing, mastering
- Angel Marcelo Rodriguez – cover photo
- Mackie – layout

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format
Worldwide	July 29, 2016	Ipecac Recordings	Digital download

References

Omar Rodríguez-López

At the Drive-In Cedric Bixler-Zavala Paul Hinojos Keeley Davis Tony Hajjar ANTEMASQUE Cedric Bixler-Zavala Marfred Rodríguez-López Travis Barker Bosnian Rainbows Teri Gender Bender Nicci Kasper Deantoni Parks ORLG / TMV Marcel Rodríguez-López David Elitch Juan Alderete Adrián Terrazas-González Money Mark Ramos-Nishita Thomas Pridgen Mark Aanderud Ximena Sariñana

Studio releases	A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One Omar Rodriguez Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead Old Money Megaritual Despair Cryptomnesia Xenophanes Solar Gambling Ciencia de los Inútiles Sepulcros de Miel Tychozorente Cizaña de los Amores Mantra Hiroshima Un Escorpión Perfumado Un Corazón de Nadie Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar Octopus Kool Aid Woman Gives Birth to Tomato! Equinox Unicorn Skeleton Mask ¿Sólo Extraño? Sworn Virgins Corazones Blind Worms Pious Swine Arañas en la Sombra Umbrella Mistress El Bien y Mal Nos Une Cell Phone Bikini Infinity Drips Weekly Mansions Zapopan Nom de Guerre Cabal Some Need It Lonely

Live releases Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group	Los Sueños de un Hígado Dōitashimashite

Collaborations	The Special 12 Singles Series Please Heat This Eventually Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante Faust & Omar Rodriguez Lopez Live At Clouds Hill Hiding In The Light

Antemasque 2014 –	Antemasque Saddle on the Atom Bomb

Bosnian Rainbows 2012 –	Bosnian Rainbows Live At Clouds Hill Bosnian Rainbows

Compilations	Telesterion 2001 – 2010

The Mars Volta 2001 – 2012	Tremulant EP De-Loused in the Comatorium Live EP Frances the Mute Scabdates Amputechture The Bedlam in Goliath Octahedron Noctourniquet

Film	The Sentimental Engine Slayer Los Chidos [unreleased]: A Manual Dexterity Letters from Dystopia El Divino Influjo de los Secretos Boiling Death Request Sharks in the Gene Pool

Related articles	Discography Le Butcherettes De Facto Gold Standard Laboratories John Frusciante Julio Venegas Jeremy Michael Ward Radio Vago El Grupo Nuevo

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