UPC: 075021039773 Label: UNIVERSAL UK Format: CDRelease Date: February 21, 2005In stock items ship within 48 hoursThe Mars Volta is neither a concept album band nor a prog band Sure, they excel at both, but Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala formed the Mars Volta in 2001 in order to dispose of labels and limitations of any kind, to move beyond genres strip-mined into obsolescence--be they dinosaur prog or 2-D punk. "We are really tired of those labels and questions,"says guitarist, co-founder and producer Rodriguez-Lopez."Concept album? How can any huge project that takes up most of your life for a year not have a concept? Prog? How can any innovative, forward-thinking art or music not be progressive? It reminds me of when I first heard the label'emo,'which was the most ridiculous label ever. How can anything you put your heart and soul into not be emotional?" Francesis basically five interconnected songs (the band considers silence between songs"a distraction... like if there were gaps between each scene in a movie") TRACK LIST: 1 Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus 13:022 The Widow 5:503 L' Via L' Viaquez 12:214 Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore 13:095 Cassandra Gemini [I] 4:456 Cassandra Gemini [II] 6:407 Cassandra Gemini [III] 2:558 Cassandra Gemini [IV] 7:419 Cassandra Gemini [V] 4:5910 Cassandra Gemini [VI] 3:4811 Cassandra Gemini [VII] 0:4612 Cassandra Gemini [VIII] 0:53
