{"product_id":"4250795602699","title":"Mars Volta, The \"Landscape Tantrums: Unfinished Original Recordings Of De-Loused In The Comatorium\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLandscape Tantrums Lost for two decades, the recent rediscovery of \u003cbr\u003e\nLandscape Tantrums the first attempt at recording the music that would \u003cbr\u003e\nbecome The Mars Volta’s De-Loused In The Comatorium revealed an \u003cbr\u003e\nimportant and hitherto missing chapter in the group’s evolution. \u003cbr\u003e\nSelfrecorded by Omar (assisted by Jon DeBaun) at Burbank’s Mad Dog \u003cbr\u003e\nStudios within a head spinning four days, Landscape Tantrums captures \u003cbr\u003e\nDe-Loused in somewhat embryonic form, though much of what would make The\u003cbr\u003e\n Mars Volta’s debut album such an electrifying, sublime experience was \u003cbr\u003e\nalready in place: the fearless invention, the fusion of futurist rock \u003cbr\u003e\nelements and traditions from outside of the rock orthodoxy, the sense of\u003cbr\u003e\n virtuosity working in service of emotional effect. From a distance, The\u003cbr\u003e\n Mars Volta must have seemed as if they were on a high when they walked \u003cbr\u003e\ninto the studio to record what they expected to be their debut album (“I\u003cbr\u003e\n didn’t think of it as demos or a dry run,” Omar says). The group had \u003cbr\u003e\nrecently played the Coachella festival to rave reviews, a vindication of\u003cbr\u003e\n the quixotic risk Omar and Cedric had taken, quitting At The Drive In \u003cbr\u003e\nto lead such an uncompromising musical proposition. Their debut EP, \u003cbr\u003e\nTremulant, had similarly signalled their singular vision, and been \u003cbr\u003e\nrewarded with similarly positive feedback. But the truth was that The \u003cbr\u003e\nMars Volta entered Mad Dog in tatters, scarcely believing anything other\u003cbr\u003e\n than failure lay within their reach. They’d recently lost their \u003cbr\u003e\nbassist, Eva Gardner, and parted ways with keyboard play Ikey Owens. \u003cbr\u003e\nTensions were brewing with drummer Jon Theodore, too himself a \u003cbr\u003e\nreplacement for founding drummer Blake Fleming Omar questioning \u003cbr\u003e\nTheodore’s commitment to the group. And sound manipulator Jeremy Michael\u003cbr\u003e\n Ward’s drug problem had gotten so far out of hand that he’d been sent \u003cbr\u003e\nto rehab, and wouldn’t return until two days into the Landscape \u003cbr\u003e\nTantrums. The pressure upon Omar was intense, and it began to manifest \u003cbr\u003e\nin the form of physical and emotional breakdowns. His art was his life, \u003cbr\u003e\nbut now he began to wonder if it was actually going to kill him. Under \u003cbr\u003e\nsuch heavy manners, miracles occurred at Mad Dog. Surely that’s the only\u003cbr\u003e\n way to describe the music contained on Landscape Tantrums, as Omar \u003cbr\u003e\nfashioned early versions of Inertiatic ESP, Drunkship Of Lanterns and \u003cbr\u003e\nEriatarka that rivalled the Rick Rubin produced versions that ended up \u003cbr\u003e\non De- Loused for intensity, precision and immediacy, as Cedric \u003cbr\u003e\ndelivered a powerfully intimate reading of Televators, and as a bare \u003cbr\u003e\nbones version of the group sketched out the peaks of what would become \u003cbr\u003e\ntheir debut masterpiece in barely half a week, on a shoestring, and \u003cbr\u003e\nbelieving they wouldn’t last long enough to see it hit the shelves. \u003cbr\u003e\nListening to Landscape Tantrums now, with the benefit of hindsight and \u003cbr\u003e\nthe knowledge of what these songs will become, one notices Cedric has \u003cbr\u003e\nyet to fully find the voice that will lend The Mars Volta their \u003cbr\u003e\ndevastating authority, that Eriatarka will evolve even further under \u003cbr\u003e\nRick Rubin’s watch, and that the lyrics to De-Loused’s climactic \u003cbr\u003e\nchapter, Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt, have yet to be penned. But one also \u003cbr\u003e\nnotices how lithe the group sound here, how hungry, and one appreciates \u003cbr\u003e\nthe raw edge that Rubin would later polish to a venomous sharpness. More\u003cbr\u003e\n than mere historical curiosity, Landscape Tantrums is an essential text\u003cbr\u003e\n for the dedicated Mars Volta aficionado, and a breathtaking album in \u003cbr\u003e\nits own right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"---","offers":[{"title":"VINYL","offer_id":42554437370031,"sku":"4250795602699","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/8833\/2463\/products\/4184108-2949521.jpg?v=1684876343","url":"https:\/\/endofanear.sbs\/products\/4250795602699","provider":"End Of An Ear","version":"1.0","type":"link"}