Bio TMV

O que está bio tem de especial é que é de facto uma grande biografia sobre a banda. Merece uma bela leitura, tem explicações na primeira pessoa (por parte de Omar) e simplesmente vale bem a pena. Podem encontra-la AQUI.

E já agora, também podem encontrar algumas informações acerca do novo album da banda, Octahedron. Passo a citar algumas:

"For The Mars Volta's brand new fifth album Octahedron, however, Omar adopted an oblique and entirely new strategy, one he'd never tried before in the group's career."

"Omar pared the band down to a 6-piece lineup, asking Hinojos and Terrazas to leave, both of whom did so amicably."

"Octahedron is an album heady with the emotion and high-drama that has always been The Mars Volta's trademark, their newfound simplicity and focus delivering some of the most immediate and powerful songs in their discography. Lyrically, Cedric employed 'disappearance' as a loose theme, inspired by the culture of kidnapping that has latterly infected the group's current home of Mexico, by the mysterious disappearances that populate the library of urban myth, and the way emotions - even the strongest, purest emotions - can mysteriously, but entirely, ebb away."

"The album opens with the tender ache of "Since We've Been Wrong," Cedric's keening vocal establishing a mood that's deeply blue, powerfully melancholic, a suckerpunch that hits every bit as hard as Octahedron's unashamed rockers (the gleaming futuristic funk of "Teflon," the tense chase-music of "Cotopaxi") (...) swooning guitar runs of high tension and emotive power (closer "Luciforms"' epic riffage) (...) nagging hooks and choked melodies that wreath the churning rhythms of "Desperate Graves."

Tudo isto podem agradecer ao Tiago Jónatas, que amavelmente me mostrou isto tudo.