kashmirz
03-02-2008, 05:18 PM
I have music delivered to me, either through visions, asking for words, or through people i call messengers. The band Mars Volta, is one that was brought to me through a messenger some time ago, and ive followed them ever since.
Their new album came out some days ago, and with so much discussion about Ouija boards here i thought it wise to show you all.
I will let the information and music speak for itself. For the record, i dont make much more of these two fellows than low level psychic bards communicating a entities messages.
It is in my personal speculation that they have no idea the true concepts of what they spoke to, or what they have delivered. I do of course have greater speculation forming, but it is just that at this stage and i really just wanted to show you a few select tracks from the album to show the sort of lyrics that they obtained from this Ouija Board.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9610/themarsvoltathebedlaminuc9.jpg
Background
On a trip in Jerusalem, Rodriguez-Lopez purchased an archaic ouija-type talking board at a curio shop as a gift for Bixler-Zavala. They would return to their tour bus after shows to play with it during their 2006 tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as it quickly became the band's post-show ritual.[4] Dubbed "The Soothsayer", the board revealed stories, gave names and made demands, as the band was contacted by three different people who appeared in the form of one, whom was then referred to as "Goliath". The more the band had interacted with "The Soothsayer", otherworldly coincidences began plaguing the band's experience writing and recording The Bedlam in Goliath: Blake Flemming—their current drummer at the time—had quit mid-tour and left the band with financial troubles; Bixler-Zavala wound up needing surgery performed on his foot due to the shoes he had been wearing, forcing him to relearn how to walk post-surgery; audio tracks sporadically and literally disappeared off the screens; Rodriguez-Lopez's home studio flooded and had been subject to multiple power outages; and the album's original engineer had gone through a nervous breakdown, leaving behind all previous work with no notes as to where anything was.[5] Rodriguez-Lopez was nearly on the brink of starting over from scratch, but instead kept on with the recruitment of Robert Carranza as the replacement engineer, along with assistance from Lars Stalfors and Isaiah Abolin. Midway through the recording sessions, Rodriguez-Lopez buried "The Soothsayer" as an attempt to undo the curse and halt the unforeseen tragedies, who ended the ordeal by swearing never to give away the whereabouts of its burial, and also asking the band not to speak of it again during the remainder of the album's production.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bedlam_in_Goliath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTvATBkBgAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1t23nT6dc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY4ZskZQEF4
Personally the band has always been of significance in my musical tarot library, however i personally hope these two bards are not as foolish as to try this again ... they could have done themselves iraversable damage.
But shit ay ... the message is loud and clear, and extremely interesting.
Their new album came out some days ago, and with so much discussion about Ouija boards here i thought it wise to show you all.
I will let the information and music speak for itself. For the record, i dont make much more of these two fellows than low level psychic bards communicating a entities messages.
It is in my personal speculation that they have no idea the true concepts of what they spoke to, or what they have delivered. I do of course have greater speculation forming, but it is just that at this stage and i really just wanted to show you a few select tracks from the album to show the sort of lyrics that they obtained from this Ouija Board.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9610/themarsvoltathebedlaminuc9.jpg
Background
On a trip in Jerusalem, Rodriguez-Lopez purchased an archaic ouija-type talking board at a curio shop as a gift for Bixler-Zavala. They would return to their tour bus after shows to play with it during their 2006 tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as it quickly became the band's post-show ritual.[4] Dubbed "The Soothsayer", the board revealed stories, gave names and made demands, as the band was contacted by three different people who appeared in the form of one, whom was then referred to as "Goliath". The more the band had interacted with "The Soothsayer", otherworldly coincidences began plaguing the band's experience writing and recording The Bedlam in Goliath: Blake Flemming—their current drummer at the time—had quit mid-tour and left the band with financial troubles; Bixler-Zavala wound up needing surgery performed on his foot due to the shoes he had been wearing, forcing him to relearn how to walk post-surgery; audio tracks sporadically and literally disappeared off the screens; Rodriguez-Lopez's home studio flooded and had been subject to multiple power outages; and the album's original engineer had gone through a nervous breakdown, leaving behind all previous work with no notes as to where anything was.[5] Rodriguez-Lopez was nearly on the brink of starting over from scratch, but instead kept on with the recruitment of Robert Carranza as the replacement engineer, along with assistance from Lars Stalfors and Isaiah Abolin. Midway through the recording sessions, Rodriguez-Lopez buried "The Soothsayer" as an attempt to undo the curse and halt the unforeseen tragedies, who ended the ordeal by swearing never to give away the whereabouts of its burial, and also asking the band not to speak of it again during the remainder of the album's production.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bedlam_in_Goliath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTvATBkBgAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1t23nT6dc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY4ZskZQEF4
Personally the band has always been of significance in my musical tarot library, however i personally hope these two bards are not as foolish as to try this again ... they could have done themselves iraversable damage.
But shit ay ... the message is loud and clear, and extremely interesting.