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Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group’s Bosnian Rainbow Tour Continues in USA , Australia, New Zealand & Japan
The new group from Omar Rodriguez Lopez featuring Teri Gender Bender, Deantoni Parks and Nicci Kasper called Bosnian Rainbows will continue their tour in the USA, Australia, New Zealand & Japan. SEE ALL DATES HERE.
ORLG’s BOSNIAN RAINBOWS - USA
Oct 19, 2012 - Seattle, WA @ City Arts Festival / The Triple Door #
Oct 20, 2012 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater #
Oct 23, 2012 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s #
Oct 24, 2012 - Oakland, CA @ The New Parish #
Oct 25, 2012 - Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour - SOLD OUT #
Oct 26, 2012 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory - SOLD OUT #
Oct 27, 2012 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones #
Oct 28, 2012 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah #
Oct 31, 2012 - Riverside, CA @ The Barn at UC Riverside w/ MONO/POLY
# Crypts opening
Nov 02, 2012- Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
Nov 05, 2012 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Nov 23, 2012 - Adelaide, AU @ Fowler’s Live
Nov 24, 2012 - Perth, AU @ The Rosemont
Nov 25, 2012 - Melbourne, AU @ Cherry Rock Festival
Nov 27, 2012 - Wellington, NZ @ San Francisco Bathhouse
Nov 28, 2012 - Auckland, NZ @ The Kings Arm Tavern
Nov 29, 2012 - Brisbane, AU @ The Zoo
Nov 30, 2012 - Byron Bay, AU @ Great Northern
Dec 01, 2012 - Sydney, AU @ Hi Fi Bar
Dec 02, 2012 - Melbourne, AU @ Corner Hotel
JAPAN
Dec 07, 2012 - Osaka, @Akaso
Dec 08, 2012 - Tokyo @ Liquid Room
Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s New Group Bosnian Rainbows Tour Australia, New Zealand & Japan starts Nov 23
Don’t miss the new Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group EVERYONE is raving about now called Bosnian Rainbows featuring Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes on Vocals and Deantoni Parks (The Mars Volta) and Nicci Kasper.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Nov 23, 2012 - Adelaide, AU @ Fowler’s Live
Nov 24, 2012 - Perth, AU @ The Rosemont
Nov 25, 2012 - Melbourne, AU @ Cherry Rock Festival
Nov 27, 2012 - Wellington, NZ @ San Francisco Bathhouse
Nov 28, 2012 - Auckland, NZ @ The Kings Arm Tavern
Nov 29, 2012 - Brisbane, AU @ The Zoo
Nov 30, 2012 - Byron Bay, AU @ Great Northern
Dec 01, 2012 - Sydney, AU @ Hi Fi Bar
Dec 02, 2012 - Melbourne, AU @ Corner Hotel
JAPAN
Dec 07, 2012 - Osaka, @Akaso
Dec 08, 2012 - Tokyo @ Liquid Room
SEE ALL TOUR DATES AND DETAILS HERE
Bosnian Rainbows Live In the Studio at Clouds Hill - Hamburg
Bosnian Rainbows live from Clouds Hill Recordings in Hamburg. Don’t miss this new Omar Rodriguez Lopez group with Teri Gender Bender, Deantoni Parks and Nicci Kasper. Their US tour dates start tomorrow in Seattle with our very own Crypts on most of the shows. The LA, San Diego and Santa Ana shows are all already Sold out so make sure to get advance tickets!
SEE ALL SHOWS & DETAILS
ORLG’s BOSNIAN RAINBOWS - USA
Oct 19, 2012 - Seattle, WA @ City Arts Fest / Triple Door #
Oct 20, 2012 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater #
Oct 23, 2012 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s #
Oct 24, 2012 - Oakland, CA @ The New Parish #
Oct 25, 2012 - Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour - SOLD OUT #
Oct 26, 2012 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory - SOLD OUT #
Oct 27, 2012 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones #
Oct 28, 2012 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah - SOLD OUT #
Oct 31, 2012 - Riverside, CA @ The Barn UC Riverside
Nov 02, 2012- Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
Nov 05, 2012 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
# w/ Crypts opening
NPR MUSIC: Featuring the new track from Bosnian Rainbows
This week, we have the infectious “Torn Maps” from Bosnian Rainbows, a new project featuring Teri Gender Bender (of Le Butcherettes) and Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Deantoni Parks & Nicci Kasper.
Musica Live Review: Bosnian Rainbows in London at the Garage
The London show is actually the second time I’ve seen Bosnian Rainbows and they continue to be exceptional, the first time being their first jaunt to the UK in Brighton. A quartet, the group is comprised of Deantoni Parks (Mars Volta/Dark Angels), Nicci Kasper (Dark Angels), Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes) and of course Omar Rodríguez-López. The music the band produce is a mercurial, dizzying, electroclash-but-not-quite, future-punk monster of a sound. Teri has such a huge stage presence beyond any lame comparison music journalists may wish to concoct. Charismatic, domineering and a voice in a deeper register, but just as bold and talented as Kate Bush. The setup is based around synthesisers and a simple drum rig, which incidentally, Parks plays with one hand whilst playing his own keyboard.
Highlights for me included: Teri crowd surfing mid-set, simply falling onto the audience and letting herself be carried away during one of the more kraut-inspired elements of the show. ‘Turtle Neck’, a beautiful sauntering song on which Rodríguez-López lends his vocals to a duet with the first lady. Omar’s speech, before the last song of the set ‘Better Off’ (my personal favourite, a massive spellbinding track where Teri’s vocals lead off into eternity,) took the time to thank the crowd for “even coming out of your houses to see us play”. Though he seemed a little frustrated as every word was crowded out with rapturous applause, it’s a humble gesture that he’s offered, from what I can gather, every night of the tour, sans microphone I might add. The end of the set is topped by the group jumping down to the stage front, in order to shake hands with audience members prior to their departure. A shame I couldn’t do the same, they deserved it. Go see them.
By Christopher Oliver
Bosnian Rainbows Announce US & Canadian Shows
The new band Bosnian Rainbows formerly known as Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group will be heading East to play some shows in February 2013. Don’t miss them.
“Don’t ask me about any other band or whether they’re touring. This is my new band and it’s what we’re all concentrating on now.” - Omar Rodriguez Lopez
BOSNIAN RAINBOWS US / CANADA SHOWS 2013
Feb 15, 2013 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Feb 16, 2013 - Asheville, NC @ Asheville Music Hall
Feb 17, 2013 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Feb 18, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Feb 19, 2013 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
Feb 20, 2013 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Feb 22, 2013 - Montréal, QC @ Cabaret du Mile-end
Feb 23, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club (Early Show)
Feb 24, 2013 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
Feb 25, 2013 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
Feb 26, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
Feb 27, 2013 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater
Feb 28, 2013 - TBA
SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS HERE
*Please note some venues may promote or list the shows as Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group - Bosnian Rainbows is that group.
Here’s what the critics have been saying about them so far
Here was a band welcomed as new heroes. It was amazing to be part of - so all-inclusive and intimate. It felt like many in the audience had just discovered their new favorite band.“ - Stuff (New Zealand - Live Review)
"Omar, clearly a man who constantly requires brand new blood to sustain him, he hasn’t been this energized since The Mars Volta early days, and with an album due to drop in 2013 this just might be the most exciting project yet” - Rock A Rolla - Live Review London, UK
N.M.E. : Omar Rodriguez-Lopez unveils new band Bosnian Rainbows’ first song - listen
At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has unveiled the first track from his new band Bosnian Rainbows. The track is titled ’Torn Maps’ and you can hear it below
Rodriguez-Lopez, who announced in late 2012 that he and At The Drive-In frontman Cedric Bixler had placed The Mars Volta on hiatus, is joined in the new outfit by drummer Deantoni Parks, keyboardist Nicci Kasper and singer Teri Gender-Bender, who is also a member of noise experimentalists Le Butcherettes.
Speaking to NME about his new band, the axeman revealed that the band’s debut album was recorded in Germany in late 2012 and will be released later this year. He said: “We recorded the record over in Europe, we did a tour across Europe and we recorded the album in Hamburg, Germany. It’s been done for a while and we’ve decided to put it out this year. We’re really happy with it.”
Rodriguez-Lopez has previously collaborated with Gender-Bender on his 2012 solo album ‘Octopus Kool Aid’ and has also recorded extensively with Kasper. Speaking about this, he said: “I’ve collaborated with all three of these artists before. I worked with Teri from Le Butcherettes on a solo record of mine, maybe a year or two ago. I also worked with her on the second Butcherettes record, I realized just how wonderful a musician she is.”
He continued: “I invited Deantoni Parks into The Mars Volta as our drummer, as a hired musician. But, as I got to know him, I realised ‘Wow, this guy is a brilliant composer’. He works as hard as me and he’s got thousands of songs in his catalogue. We must have made six records together over the years. It’s the same thing with Nicci Kasper, we all love writing music. It’s really something else.”
The guitarist also spoke about the different approach he has taken when it comes to writing material with his new band, compared to his days in The Mars Volta, adding: “It’s the classic thing, you stick with one way of doing things for so long that you start to crave a different way of working.”
He continued: “I did eight years in At The Drive-In being in a collective, so after that I wanted something where I was in charge and no one asked me any questions. After 11 years then in The Mars Volta of doing that, I found myself feeling very lonely and I felt like I abandoned my friendships, so I’ve decided to focus on this band.”
Rodriguez-Lopez also spoke about Bixler and revealed that the singer is currently working on his debut solo album, which will mainly consist of acoustic. Asked if he was missing working with Bixler, who he has worked with for almost 20 years, the guitarist said: “It’s been very strange being without Cedric. It’s one of those bittersweet moments, it’s great for both of us because he’s making this great solo record, which is more of an acoustic thing. I’m really excited to hear another side of him and to work on music without me. He’s composing all the music, playing all the instruments, literally doing everything himself, rather than just singing over the top of my songs.”
Bosnian Rainbow’s as yet untitled debut album is due for release later this year. The band are set to tour extensively in support of the record.
SEE ALL TOUR DATES HERE
Louder Than War Interview with Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Live Review of Bosnian Rainbows in London
Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s genre-defying sixteen-year career has resulted in more than 40 albums and Rolling Stone have deemed him one of the “Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” You’ll know him from both The Mars Volta & At the Drive-In of course, but his latest project, Bosnian Rainbows, is just beginning to take shape. The band recently came over to the UK to play a few shows & Louder Than War caught up with him in London both for a chat & to see his live show.
“I’m not interested in genre, I’m not interested in bands, I’m not interested in music scenes- I’m just interested in expression, and expression is constantly changing. You’re learning new things, new influences, language changes, body language changes over the years, we completely shed our skin every seven years as human beings, I’m more interested in that, the human thing”
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez describes his stance and position as a music maker and composer.
Bosnian Rainbows gave a breathtaking performance at Londons The Garage on Oct 3rd, marking their 30th gig as a new band with the notoriously ‘tough’ UK crowd.
The risk in a new band featuring Omar Rodriguez Lopez is that the followers of both his previous two bands, At The Drive In and The Mars Volta, will have expectations based on those lengthy & much loved endeavors. However, the Bosnian Rainbows set was received with rapturous applause by fans of both those previous bands. Although this in reality is merely a bonus as the music is the focus of our attention tonight as opposed to the musical history of the musician, a man who owes nothing to a field to which he consistently gives so much. Thus, this is not an Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, this is Bosnian Rainbows.
Rolling Stone: Interview with Bosnian Rainbows
There is a Spanish phrase that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez keeps in mind as he pushes forward with Bosnian Rainbows, his newest experimental rock band: con vivir. It is a motto not only for his new music, but for what he describes as a new way of living.
“In English, the only translation is ‘togetherness,’ but that doesn’t do it justice,” the guitarist tells Rolling Stone, as the band celebrates this week’s release of their debut album, Bosnian Rainbows. “It’s the essence of the chemistry that happens when people come together.”
For Bosnian Rainbows, that togetherness has been unusually intense since the quartet formed a year ago, as Rodriguez-Lopez stepped away from At the Drive In and the Mars Volta. Joining him is Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks, keyboardist Nicci Kasper and singer Teri Gender Bender (Teresea Suaréz), the explosive leader of Guadalajara garage band Le Butcherettes.
Rodriguez-Lopez calls Bosnian Rainbows a collective of artists who spend virtually every moment together. “We wanted to create a microcosm for what we’d like to see in everyday life,” says the guitarist, who has openly admitted to being a creative “dictator” in previous bands. “I’ve awoken to a reality that has taken me 36 years. This is the project to us: our togetherness, the films we watch, nutrition, then the nutrition of the mind, the ideas that are coming into our head. If we stray true to that, music will happen.”
RedBull Music Academy: Interview with Bosnian Rainbows’ Omar Rodriguez Lopez
When At The Drive-In reformed for a handful of gigs last year, the motive was fairly obvious. The nostalgic pleading from fans and promoters became too great to ignore for the El-Paso pioneers and perhaps more importantly, so did the digits on the paycheque.
But as it turned out, that look back into the past sparked a new chapter of creativity for Omar Rodriquez-Lopez. Inspired by the democratic spirit of At The Drive-In, the guitarist went on to form his latest band Bosnian Rainbows – who performed a special show for RBMA Radio’s Panamérika show on June 28 and then dropped by RBMA Radio Berlin last week – with Deantoni Parks (drums) Nicci Kasper (keyboard) and fantastically named Teri Gender Bender (vocals).