Epic LP Is Epic

I don’t know if it’s the hair or glasses or just that the man has mad guitar skills but it’s quite definite: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez oozes epicness. Sheer, unaltered epicness. It’s like every song asks, no craves for an intensely intense riff, a simply of-the-hook guitar solo, a crazy reverb. And sometimes, the Mars Volta guitarist puts them all in just one song. One epic song. Never the one to be shy about recording one too many albums, Mr. Rodriquez-Lopez graces our speakers with a new material, just three months after his previous solo output, Ciencia de los Inútiles

Sepulcros de Miel (Spanish for Graves of Honey) is his 25^th solo material. And he only stared making music in 1991. The man rests not. To get closer to actually baking the pie, it should be noted none other that John Frusciante is in the honey jar as well. Now, Mr. Frusciante is no stranger to Mr. Rodriquez-Lopez. The two have worked before for Mars Volta’s latest two albums. Finger licking is the word to describe just about everything.

Part of the general nauseating epicness, the eight songs of the LP are named Part I to Part VIII as only to point out what you are to find after one play. This project is to be taken as a whole, not separately. Then, the meaning of the LP would be lost. And, truth is it would be strange to take them individually as each song flows into the other and it all seems like one great psychedelic opera. If you don’t pay enough attention, you could even say the transition between parts is barely noticeable and there is not big change. And after you’ve heard it more than once, it becomes only natural to hear it without a pause and the perfect soundtrack for a spaced-out, simply weird day.

But Sepulcros de Miel is not just part of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s sick ambition to record as many albums as possible. It is released digitally as a ‘pay-what-you-want’ material and all the money will go to a program called Music Scholarship, a project which sponsors musicians and school programs that help young of poor artists. Which actually sounds epic. Yes, epic.

*you can download the album here