Biography
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez is a progressive rock / math rock project from Bayamón, Puerto Rico led by The Mars Volta guitarist Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez, originally created as a means for Lopez to work with Hella drummer Zach Hill.
The line-up was completed adding bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña of The Mars Volta and former Hella bassist Jonathan Hischke on synth bass. The quartet recorded a trio of albums in 2006, the first of which, Cryptomnesia, was released May 5th, 2009. Rodriguez-Lopez recruted The Mars Volta band-mate and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala to contribute lyrics and vocals to the album, which weren't tracked until two years later in 2008, with Bixler-Zavala stating that he needed time to "dwell on the enormity of the recordings" before placing lyrics to them.
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The vocals for the last two recordings have not yet been completed.
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