LP - Limited Edition Transparent Vinyl
Landscape Tantrums lost for two decades, the recent rediscovery of Landscape Tantrums the first attempt at recording the music that would become The Mars Volta’s De-Loused In The Comatorium revealed an important and hitherto missing chapter in the group’s evolution. Self recorded by Omar (assisted by Jon DeBaun) at Burbank’s Mad Dog Studios within a head spinning four days, Landscape Tantrums captures De-Loused in somewhat embryonic form, though much of what would make The Mars Volta’s debut album such an electrifying, sublime experience was already in place: the fearless invention, the fusion of futurist rock elements and traditions from outside of the rock orthodoxy, the sense of virtuosity working in service of emotional effect.
From a distance, The Mars Volta must have seemed as if they were on a high when they walked into the studio to record what they expected to be their debut album (“I didn’t think of it as demos or a dry run,” Omar says). The group had recently played the Coachella festival to rave reviews, a vindication of the quixotic risk Omar and Cedric had taken, quitting At The Drive In to lead such an uncompromising musical proposition.
Tracklist:
1. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) [06:38]
2. Son Et Lumière [02:18]
3. Inertiatic ESP [03:58]
4. Drunkship of Lanterns [05:58]
5. Eriatarka [05:35]
6. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed [04:38]
7. Televators [04:56]
8. Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt [12:32]