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Amputechture
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Studio album by The Mars Volta
Released September 12, 2006 (International) </br> September 11, 2006 (Europe) </br> September 8, 2006 (Germany)
Recorded 2005-2006
Genre Progressive Rock
Length 76:04
Label Gold Standard Laboratories
Universal Records
Producer(s) Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Professional reviews
The Mars Volta chronology
Scabdates
(2005) 		Amputechture
(2006)


Amputechture is the third full length studio album by The Mars Volta released on September 12, 2006. It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA, El Paso, TX and Melbourne, Australia. The album was produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and mixed by Rich Costey. Gold Standard Labs has confirmed that the album will be released on vinyl in September of 2006.

The album features almost a dozen artists, including Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante who is featured as guest guitarist on every track except "Asilos Magdelena".

In early July, the track "Viscera Eyes" was officially released on the band's MySpace page. On July 13th, the band also posted a link to a stream of the song in full on their website. Soon after, the full version of "Viscera Eyes" on the MySpace page was replaced by a radio edit running at 4:21. "Viscera Eyes" was also confirmed to be the first single from this album.

The album debuted at #9 on the Billboard Top 200 selling over 59,000 copies in its opening week [1].

Contents

[edit] Overview

Amputechture marks the first time Omar and Cedric have created a work without a single unifying narrative. The essential creative process remained the same: Omar creating the music (including the horn sections) for Cedric to lyricize — but this time with the freedom to document unrelated stories, vignettes, inside jokes, various people, events, and memories... All in all, Cedric likens the experience alternately to the compartmentalized episodes of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, or the disparate plotlines of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks - storylines not necessarily linear or in any way connected, but all told in the same voice. [2]

Also, in an MTV interview posted on July 25th[3], Cedric Bixler-Zavala said inspirations for the album were very diverse, ranging from the recent U.S. immigration marches to the news stories of possessed nuns. As far as the concept of the album, storyline, and overall mood has to go, Cedric Bixler-Zavala had this to say during the interview:

"This album's a commentary about the fear of God instead of the love of God, which goes hand-in-hand with Catholicism...To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God. Amputechture is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person. It's about the pineal gland and how it has certain elements that mimic a DMT experience, and how we can come up with cures for cancer and AIDS if we're more in tune with what's going on in the rainforest."

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has stated that the word "Amputechture" was coined by the late Jeremy Michael Ward. Omar stated in an interview with Switch Magazine:

"That word has been with us for a long time, and we wanted to use it for something very important. For us, this third record is very important and...I don't know exactly what does it mean, but the sound of the word makes us feel good."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Vicarious Atonement" – 7:19
  2. "Tetragrammaton" – 16:41
  3. "Vermicide" – 4:15
  4. "Meccamputechture" – 11:02
  5. "Asilos Magdalena" – 6:34
  6. "Viscera Eyes" – 9:23
  7. "Day of the Baphomets" – 11:56
  8. "El Ciervo Vulnerado" – 8:50

[edit] Notes

  1. Vicarious Atonement is the theory that the atonement of Jesus Christ was legal in God's eyes and that Jesus died in the place of the humans that sinned.
  2. Tetragrammaton is a reference to the 4 letter name of the Hebrew God, that being יהוה, or YHWH.
  3. Vermicide is any substance used to kill worms, especially those in the intestines, or the act of killing worms.
  4. Mecca is the holiest city in the Islamic faith. "Ampu" may be from the word "amputate," "tech" is for "technology," and "ture" is from "architecture."
  5. Spanish for 'Magdalen Asylums.' The correct Spanish translation is "Asilos Magdalenos".
  6. Viscera refers to internal organs, namely intestines.
  7. A Baphomet is an object used for idolizing, also confused with popular representations of Satan.
  8. El Ciervo Vulnerado is Spanish for 'The Wounded Shepherd'. In Spanish 'ciervo' and 'venado' are the words for 'deer' although the context differs in the form in which it is being used. Ciervo, in this case is being used as 'pastor', or 'shepherd'. In the Reina-Valera 1960 Edition of the Holy Bible, Jesus is referred to as 'El Ciervo que fue vulnerado' or the 'Shepherd who was wounded'.

[edit] Miscellanea

  • "Viscera Eyes" evolved from a song originally written for the band At the Drive-In. [4]
  • Lyrics and melody from the un-released song "A Plague Upon Your Hissing" are used in "Day of the Baphomets."[5]
  • This is the band's final studio recording with drummer Jon Theodore. [6]
  • This is the band's first studio recording with former At The Drive-In bandmate Paul Hinojos.
  • Amputechture is the first of their three albums to contain no original artwork; the background of each page in the album booklet is simply a section of Jeff Jordan's "Big Mutant". In addition the CD art itself is "Dwarf Dancing", also by Jeff Jordan.
  • The liner notes of The Mars Volta's previous album Frances the Mute feature a credit for "Amputekthure" under the "published by" credits, Cedric Bixler-Zavala's name under the ASCAP corporation.
  • In the CD booklet the word "veces" (Spanish for 'times') comes misspelled as "veses" in the song " Asilos Magdalena"
  • In the CD booklet, the word "cuando" (Spanish for 'when') is misspelled every time, the CD booklet has it spelled as "quando".

[edit] Personnel

[edit] External links

The Mars Volta
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez | Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Isaiah Ikey Owens | Juan Alderete de la Pena | Deantoni Parks | Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez | Adrian Terrazas-Gonzales | Pablo Hinojos-Gonzalez

Former members
Eva Gardner | Jeremy Ward | Jon Theodore
Discography
Albums: De-Loused in the Comatorium | Frances the Mute | Scabdates | A Missing Chromosome | Amputechture
Extended plays: | Tremulant EP | Live EP
Singles: "Inertiatic ESP" | "Televators" | "The Widow" | "L'Via L'Viaquez" | "Viscera Eyes"
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