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ALL Items from ALL our bands old and new on Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions is on SALE for the Holiday. So get in on it starting when the clock strikes Midnight (In California - PST time) on November 29th and Ending at Midnight on December 2nd. Items will be marked down at Checkout. Thanks to all of you that support our bands - we appreciate you so much. GO SHOP HERE and spread the word!
All the members of Bosnian Rainbows sat down in London and talked to writer, Stevie Chick about the birth of this band and the past and future of others.. all photos by Steve Gullick - Read the full article on Loose Lips Sink Ships Seven HERE .
Bosnian Rainbows are on the cover and featured in Issue 8 of Music & Riots Magazine - see full online issue here.
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.
Formerly a member of At The Drive-In, De Facto and The Mars Volta, and currently playing in alt-rock foursome Bosnian Rainbows, Omar Rodríguez-López is a musician who needs no introduction to anyone even vaguely into rock music since the turn of the millennium. Bosnian Rainbows – ‘Turtle Neck’, from the album ‘Bosnian Rainbows’
Omar stopped by Orange while in Atlanta on tour with Bosnian Rainbows and chatted about his gear and why he loves Orange Amps. Big thanks to all the folks at Orange for their support.
Una de las presentaciones internacionales que más cautivo nuestra atención en la decimonovena edición de Rock al Parque fue la de la agrupación estadounidense Bosnian Rainbows; el nuevo proyecto liderado por el virtuoso Omar Rodríguez-Lopéz en compañía de su ex-compañero en Mars Volta Deantoni Parks, la talentosa Teri Gender, también viejos conocidos en Le Butcherettes y Nicci Kasper.
La puesta en escena del cuarteto fue posiblemente algo nunca visto en la tarima del festival. El compromiso de cada uno de los músicos interpretando sus instrumentos, la actuación teatral y el vinculo con el publico de Teri Gender, sumado a una tenue lluvia que caía sobre el parque crearon la atmosfera perfecta para llenar de psicodelia la noche capitalina.
Un espectáculo que un festival como Rock al Parque nos dio el lujo de tener en frente y disfrutar de principio a fin. Las imágenes capturadas por el lente de Sonisfera, que les compartimos a continuación, hablan por sí solas.
Fotos por: Nico Fernández Haciendo click sobre las imagenes las pueden agrandar.
Bosnian Rainbows are featured in DIY Magazine print only out now.
Bosnian Rainbows tour starts up again on July 10th in Atlanta. Just announced are new shows in September in Canada and the Pacific NW including Rifflandia Festival & Riot Fest in Denver will still more dates coming..
SEE ALL BOSNIAN RAINBOWS SHOW DETAILS HERE BOSNIAN RAINBOWS 2013 July 10, 2013 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West w/ Sister Crayon July 11, 2013 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle w/ Sister Crayon July 12, 2013 - Washington DC @ U Street Music Hall w/ Sister Crayon July 13, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts w/ Sister Crayon July 14, 2013 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Rye Coalition & Sister Crayon July 16, 2013 - Hamden, CT @ Spaceland Ballroom w/ Sister Crayon July 18, 2013 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair w/ Sister Crayon July 19, 2013 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s w/ Rye Coalition & Sister Crayon July 20, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar w/ Sister Crayon July 21, 2013 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement w/ Sister Crayon July 23, 2013 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre w/ Sister Crayon July 24, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge w/ Sister Crayon Aug 02, 2013 - Cork, Ireland @ Indiependent Festival Aug 08, 2013 - Sibenik, Croatia @ Terraneo Festival Aug 16, 2013 - Groningen, Holland @ Noorderzon Festival Aug 17, 2013 - Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop Festival Aug 31, 2013 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega w/ Tomahawk Sept 01, 2013 - Oslo, Norway @Rockefeller Music Hall w/ Tomahawk Sept 02,2013 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Media w/ Tomahawk Sept 04, 2013 - Helsinki, Finland @ Circus w/ Tomahawk Sept 06, 2013 - Berlin, Germany @ Berlin Festival Sept 07, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Smichoff Summer Festival Sept 14, 2013 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret Sept 15, 2013 - Victoria, BC @ Rifflandia Festival Sept 17, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile Sept 21-22 , 2013 - Denver, CO @ Riot Fest Oct 26, 2013 - Asheville, NC @ Mountain Oasis Festival
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."
Bosnian Rainbows play tonight 6/26 at The Observatory in Santa Ana and in San Francisco at Great American Music Hall 6/27. Most of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's music is defined by storminess. In the past, his creativity came in whirlwinds, thunderous opinions drenched in acid rain and an eccentric fogginess that left fans, friends and band mates no choice other than to blindly brace themselves for his next move. But that stressful excitement can take its toll after a while, even when you're the guy orchestrating it.
But the 37-year-old genius recently decided to abandon this creative flurry in favor of uncluttered skies. And it's no surprise it has resulted in a rainbow--more specifically, his new band, Bosnian Rainbows. "I've always taken comfort in being long-winded, and now I've really been trying to articulate myself in a clearer way," he says. "In the same way that I now try to communicate with friends; everything else in music is simply a byproduct of what's happening in your life."
When it comes to rainbows, Bosnian or otherwise, the coolest thing about these streaks of floating paint is each color's ability to hold its own vibrant place in the atmosphere while together representing an innate oneness. Even before the release of Nocturniquet--the Mars Volta's latest and possibly final effort--Rodriguez-Lopez's thirst for collaboration after so many years of musical dictatorship in that band told him it was time for a change. It's not as though he needed to go very far to find the personnel he was looking for to hatch a new project. Much of the inspiration for Bosnian Rainbows was begotten from never-released recordings he'd made with thunderous Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks.
"When I recorded the last Mars Volta record, Deantoni recorded his parts in just a day. We had four days left over, and we just started messing around like I hadn't done in about a decade," Rodriguez-Lopez recalls. "We recorded all these ideas we had, and we kinda kept the dialogue going about that material throughout the years."
Tonight, Rodriguez-Lopez comes to OC for a second time to test out the newest of his stripped-down, psychedelic endeavors. Their eponymous, debut LP was released yesterday. After blitzing through Europe with Parks, guitar-playing wild woman Teri "Gender Bender" Suarez and synth player Nicci Kasper, the band recorded an album to turn this passion project into a concrete statement about Rodriguez-Lopez's new creative intentions. "That happiness that comes through sharing with people," he says. "It's a whole different thing than doing something in which only your opinion matters; you can only take that enjoyment so far. . . . There's no bigger high than serving something bigger than yourself."
Though the project revolves around the deep, lush synths played by Parks and Kasper (both collaborate on similar work for their own side projects, KUDU and Dark Angels, respectively), much of the electricity onstage runs through the limbs and vocal chords of Suarez of Le Butcherettes. (Rodriguez-Lopez currently plays bass in that band as well.) Their chemistry is palpable--and it's no accident. Before playing their first shows earlier this year, Rodriguez-Lopez says, the band held rehearsals that were akin to hangout sessions. "It didn't matter if we played a single note, whereas in the Mars Volta, I'd have the band practicing 12 hours a day," he explains. "But here, we'd take trips together and watch movies together, so as a result of that, when we decided to exchange musical ideas, it all came together very quickly."
One of the most noticeable challenges in Bosnian Rainbows is that aside from performing triple duty on drum machine, live drums and keyboards, Parks has stripped his kit of cymbals and toms. Coming into the project, that was an aspect of the sound that he and Rodriguez-Lopez agreed on. "At this point in my life, I fucking hate cymbals. Maybe it's having been around rock & roll for so long," Rodriguez-Lopez says. "But you'd say this to a normal drummer, and they'd have problems. But Deantoni just looked at me and said, 'I don't wanna play my toms either, then.'"
But more than the collaborative musicianship and digestible riffs, Rodriguez-Lopez has a new, practical mode of thinking in every aspect of his life. "Nowadays, when I'm out with friends, and people want to go to a restaurant that I've never been to, instead of making a fuss about it, I'll loosen up and go along with it. Because in the end, I know that good living is only real when you share it with someone else, when you forget about your own desire and your own neuroses." By Nate Jackson
Bosnian Rainbows play the Observatory tonight at 8 p.m. Full show info here.
As previously reported, Omar Rodríguez-López’s new band Bosnian Rainbows with Teri Gender Bender, Nicci Kasper, and Deantoni Parks will release their self-titled, full-length debut on June 25th via Sargent House.
With this latest endeavor, Rodríguez-López has moved away from the pounding post-rock he was known for with At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, crafting “alternative pop” like the sensual “Torn Maps” and the dreamy “Turtle Neck”. With the album’s third single, “Morning Sickness”, Rodríguez-López and Co. expand that formula to dizzying heights.
While Ms Gender Bender’s vocals sound as fragile and evocative as ever, the lads lay down this deliberate, hyper-inflated funk groove capped off by Rodríguez-López’s guitar that sounds like a mythical serpent weaving through a cloud bank. But even with the sweltering sex appeal cranked to 11, the track subtly reveals cracks of post-rock grime and intensity, paying slight homage to Rodríguez-López’s past while blazing a trail toward transcendent pop effervescence. Listen in below.
Bosnian Rainbows self titled debut out on June 25th on Sargent House. Pre-Order CD, Vinyl here or on Itunes now.
Bosnian Rainbows continue to release a video a day from their Bosnian Rainbows TV Channel leading up to the release of their debut album on June 25th. They have also just been announced to play three more festivals two in Germany on June 21st at AvantGarde Festival and at Hurricane Festival on June 22nd and then in Croatia on August 8th at Terraneo Festival. They will also play shows in the United States in June with a west coast run of album release shows starting June 24th in San Diego. Also just added a show in North Carolina to their July east coast shows. SEE ALL BOSNIAN RAINBOWS SHOW DETAILS HERE BOSNIAN RAINBOWS 2013 June 21, 2013 - Schiphorst, DE @ Avantgarde Festival June 22, 2013 - Scheessel, DE @ Hurricane Festival June 24, 2013 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah June 25, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA @ First Unitarian Church June 26, 2013 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory June 27, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall July 01, 2013 - Bogota, Colombia @ Rock Al Parque Festival July 10, 2013 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West July 11, 2013 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle July 12, 2013 - Washington DC @ U Street Music Hall July 13, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts July 14, 2013 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom July 16, 2013 - Hamden, CT @ The Spaceland Ballroom July 18, 2013 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair July 19, 2013 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s July 20, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar July 21, 2013 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement July 23, 2013 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre July 24, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge Aug 02, 2013 - Cork, Ireland @ Indiependent Festival Aug 08, 2013 - Sibenik, Croatia @ Terraneo Festival Aug 16, 2013 - Groningen, Holland @ Noorderzon Festival Aug 17, 2013 - Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop Festival Aug 31, 2013 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega w/ Tomahawk Sept 01, 2013 - Oslo, Norway @Rockefeller Music Hall w/ Tomahawk Sept 02,2013 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Media w/ Tomahawk Sept 04, 2013 - Helsinki, Finland @ Circus w/ Tomahawk Sept 06, 2013 - Berlin, Germany @ Berlin Festival Oct 26, 2013 - Asheville, NC @ Mountain Oasis Festival
Subscribe to the Bosnian Rainbows TV on youtube and see a new video from the road each day leading up to the album's release date on June 25th.
