Omar Rodríguez-López discography

Omar Rodríguez-López discography
Omar Rodríguez-López discography
	Rodríguez-López at the Latitude festival 2008
Studio albums	49
EPs	3
Live albums	2
Compilation albums	1
Singles	2
Music videos	5
Producer	55

Omar Rodríguez-López is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, actor and director, who is best known for his roles as band leader of The Mars Volta and guitarist for At the Drive-In. He is also the former bassist of the dub outfit De Facto, punk band Le Butcherettes (for which he also serves as producer), and finally, an active member of Bosnian Rainbows, Antemasque, and Crystal Fairy (band). Omar has released an eclectic catalogue of music as a solo musician and has collaborated with a diverse range of artists and bands, such as El-P, Faust, John Frusciante, Lydia Lunch, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Damo Suzuki.

Quick Facts Studio albums, EPs ...

This article represents the complete body of work released by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo musician and record producer.

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
Year	Album details	US Heat. ^[1]
2004	A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One Released: August 31, 2004 Label: GSL Format: CD, download, LP	—
2005	Omar Rodriguez Released: December 5, 2005 Label: GSL Format: CD, download, LP	—
2007	Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo Released: May 29, 2007 Label: GSL Format: CD, download, LP	40
	The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange Released: November 20, 2007 Label: GSL Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) Released: December 15, 2007 Label: N2O Format: CD, download, LP	29
2008	Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus Released: September 19, 2008 Label: Infrasonic Sound Format: CD, download, LP, USB	—
	Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead Released: September 19, 2008 Label: Willie Anderson Recordings Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Old Money Released: November 10, 2008 Label: Stones Throw Format: CD, download, LP	—
2009	Megaritual Released: January 26, 2009 Label: Willie Anderson Recordings Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Despair Released: January 26, 2009 Label: Willie Anderson Recordings Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Cryptomnesia Released: May 5, 2009 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download, LP	33
	Xenophanes Released: September 28, 2009 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Solar Gambling Released: December 1, 2009 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: Download, LP	—
2010	Tychozorente Released: September 14, 2010 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Cizaña de los Amores Released: October 11, 2010 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download, LP	—
	Mantra Hiroshima Released: November 29, 2010 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download	—
	Un Escorpión Perfumado Released: December 20, 2010 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download, LP	—
2012	Un Corazón de Nadie Released: May 17, 2012 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: CD, download	—
	Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar Released: June 20, 2012 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: CD, download	—
	Octopus Kool Aid Released: July 24, 2012 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: CD, LP, download	—
2013	Equinox Released: January 1, 2013 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: Download	—
	Woman Gives Birth to Tomato! Released: January 1, 2013 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: Download	—
	Unicorn Skeleton Mask Released: January 2, 2013 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: Download	—
	¿Sólo Extraño? Released: March 8, 2013 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: Download	—
2016	Sworn Virgins Released: July 15, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Corazones Released: July 29, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Blind Worms, Pious Swine Released: August 12, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Arañas en la Sombra Released: August 26, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Umbrella Mistress Released: September 9, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	El Bien y Mal Nos Une Released: September 23, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Cell Phone Bikini Released: October 7, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Infinity Drips Released: October 21, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Weekly Mansions Released: November 4, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Zapopan Released: November 18, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Nom de Guerre Cabal Released: December 2, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Some Need It Lonely Released: December 16, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	A Lovejoy Released: December 30, 2016 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
2017	Roman Lips Released: January 13, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Zen Thrills Released: January 27, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Chocolate Tumor Hormone Parade Released: February 10, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Ensayo de un Desaparecido Released: February 24, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Azul, Mis Dientes Released: March 10, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Gorilla Preacher Cartel Released: March 24, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Killing Tingled Lifting Retreats Released: April 7, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Solid State Mercenaries Released: April 21, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Birth of a Ghost Released: May 5, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
	Doom Patrol Released: July 14, 2017 Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects Format: Download	—
2020	The Clouds Hill Tapes Parts I, II & III Released: July 24, 2020 Label: Clouds Hill Format: 3LP	—
2023	Is It the Clouds? Released: December 1, 2023 Label: Clouds Hill Format: LP, download	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
Year	Album details	US Heat. ^[1]
2009	Cryptomnesia Released: May 5, 2009 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Format: CD, download, LP	33

Year	Album details
2009	Los Sueños de un Hígado Released: September 27, 2009 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: Download, LP
2010	Dōitashimashite Released: November 30, 2010 Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions Format: Download, CD

Year	Album	With	Comment
1991	I Love Being Trendy	Startled Calf	Provides lead vocals.
1993	You Can't Change Me	Startled Calf	Provides lead vocals.
2002	Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three	Rollins Band	By various artists (Produced by Henry Rollins).
2004	Shadows Collide with People	John Frusciante	Performs slide guitar on "Chances", "23 Go in to End".
2004
Inside of Emptiness	John Frusciante	Lead Guitar on "666".
2005	Curtains	John Frusciante	Lead guitar on "Lever Pulled", joined lead guitar with John on "Anne"

	Radio Vago	Radio Vago	The album was also produced by Omar Rodriguez.

The Phantom Syndrome	Coaxial
The Special 12 Singles Series	Alavaz Relxib Cirdec	Wrote guitar and chorus section on "Private Booths". Co-wrote "Sapta Loka".
2006	Stadium Arcadium	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Guitar solo on "Especially in Michigan".
2007	I'll Sleep When You're Dead	El-P	Also features Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Isaiah "Ikey" Owens of The Mars Volta.
2008	New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)	Erykah Badu	Appears on "Twinkle".
2008
The Burning Plain	Hans Zimmer	A collaboration between Omar Rodríguez-López and Hans Zimmer for the film The Burning Plain. The soundtrack was used in the film only and remains unreleased in any other format.
2009	Leslie White	Taka-Takaz	Guitars on "Y sono la flauta" and "Por casualidad".
2009
Terra Incognita	Juliette Lewis	Producer, Guitar, Bass, Organ (Rhodes).
2010	Sympathy for Delicious OST	Burnt the Diphthongs	Wrote and performed on the following songs for fictional band, Burnt the Diphthongs: "Playing for Nina", "Mark's Master" and "The Healing Song".

	Negativa	Hour of the Monarchy
Entren Los Que Quieran	Calle 13	Appears on the track entitled "Calma Pueblo".
2011	The Golden Age of Knowhere	Funeral Party	Provides guitar solo on "Car Wars".
2014	Tercer Solar	Apolo	Featured on the track entitled "Siddhartha".
2016	¿De Qué Sivre la Resistencia?	Yokozuna	Features Omar Rodríguez-López and Le Butcherettes.
2017	Residente^[2]	Residente	Provides guitars

Year	Album	For	Comment
1997	El Gran Orgo	At the Drive-In	Co-produced with Bryan Jones and other members of At the Drive-In.
2000	Sunshine / At the Drive-In	At the Drive-In	Co-produced "Extracurricular" and "Autorelocater" with the other members of At the Drive-In.
2003	De-Loused in the Comatorium	The Mars Volta	Co-produced with Rick Rubin.
2003	Live	The Mars Volta	Co-produced with Cedric Bixler-Zavala.
2004	A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume 1	Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez	Recorded in 2001.
2005	Frances the Mute	The Mars Volta	Recorded between July and October 2004 at Avatar Studios, New York.
	Scabdates	The Mars Volta	Recorded between May 2004 and May 2005, at various live performances
	Omar Rodriguez	Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet	Recorded in June 2005. First release in the "Amsterdam Series".
	Radio Vago	Radio Vago	This was the only album to be released by the band.
2006	Amputechture	The Mars Volta	Recorded between November 2005 and May 2006 in Los Angeles, California, El Paso, Texas and Melbourne, Australia.
2006	Please Heat This Eventually	Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Damo Suzuki	Live segments recorded November 14, 2005, in Cologne, Germany.
2007	Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in November 2005. Second release in the "Amsterdam Series".
	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch
	The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange	Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet	Recorded in 2005. Third release in the "Amsterdam Series".
	Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in 2005. Fourth release in the "Amsterdam Series".
2008	The Bedlam in Goliath	The Mars Volta	Recorded between 2006 and 2007 at Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, California and Rodriguez-Lopez's home studio in Brooklyn, New York.
	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward	Recorded in May 2001.
	Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in 2001.
	Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded between 2001 and 2002.
	Old Money	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded between 2005 and 2006.
2009	Megaritual	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in 2006. Fifth and final release in the "Amsterdam Series".
	Despair	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in 2007.
	Cryptomnesia	El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez	This is the first of three albums by the band.
	Octahedron	The Mars Volta	Recorded in August 2008 at 99 Sutton Street in Brooklyn, New York.
	Terra Incognita	Juliette and The New Romantiques	Also plays guitar, bass and organ (Rhodes) on this album.
	Los Sueños de un Hígado	Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group	Recorded on March 11, 2009.
	Xenophanes	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in December 2008.
	Solar Gambling	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Recorded in 2009.
2010	Ciencia de los Inútiles	El Trío de Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante	Recorded in the spring of 2003.
	Sepulcros de Miel	Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet	Recorded in 2006.
	Tychozorente	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Co-produced with Elvin Estela.
	Cizaña de los Amores	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	Mantra Hiroshima	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	Dōitashimashite	Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group	Recorded on September 13,14,17,18, 2010.
	Un Escorpión Perfumado	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
2011	Telesterion	Omar Rodriguez Lopez	Compilation album.
2011	Sin Sin Sin	Le Butcherettes	Provides bass guitar in addition to producing the album.
2012	Noctourniquet	The Mars Volta
	Un Corazón de Nadie	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	Octopus Kool Aid	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
2013	Equinox	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	Woman Gives Birth to Tomato!	Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
	Unicorn Skeleton Mask	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
	¿Sólo Extraño?	Omar Rodriguez Lopez
2014	Cry Is for the Flies	Le Butcherettes	Provides bass guitar in addition to producing the album.
2015	Guardian	Apolo
2015	A Raw Youth	Le Butcherettes

Omar Rodríguez-López discography

Albums

Studio albums

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet

As El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

As El Trío de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward

Live albums

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group

Compilation albums

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Extended plays

As Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Damo Suzuki

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch

As Faust & Omar Rodriguez Lopez

As Kimono Kult

Singles

As Nadie

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante

Other appearances

As producer

Videography

Music videos

Rodriguez Lopez Productions catalog

See also

References

External links

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