Gorilla Preacher Cartel is the 44th album by Omar Rodríguez-López, released on March 24, 2017. It is the 19th release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the 7th of the 2017 series.
Original release schedule listed a different title, Scrapyard Handshakes. It’s unknown whether this title was meant for this album, or a different release altogether. The record serves as a sort of compilation gathering vastly different types of recordings and songs/”scraps” from various times throughout the 2000s in the vein of 2016’s Some Need It Lonely, although this record has a much greater emphasis on instrumental tracks, even featuring lengthy guitar solos on most songs.
“Buying Friendships” features recorded tracks from two former Mars Volta drummers,…
…Jon Theodore & Deantoni Parks, fused together as an entirely new song with Omar adding a vocal track. Parts of the 2008 records Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus & Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead are revisited here from their 2001 sessions prior to the formation of The Mars Volta featured on the first track.
Killing Tingled Lifting Retreats is the forty-fifth album by Omar Rodríguez-López, released on April 7, 2017. It is the twentieth release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the eighth of the 2017 series.
Original release schedule listed a different title, Cosmic Jesus Hearst. It’s unknown whether this title was meant for this album, or a different release altogether. Tracks 3-4 and 7-8 are single songs divided into two parts. “Cassando la Luna/Oro” is a new version of “Arcos del Amor”, released in 2016 on Arañas en la Sombra.