Omar Rodríguez-López discography

Omar Rodríguez-López discography
Rodríguez-López at the Latitude festival 2008
Studio albums49
EPs3
Live albums2
Compilation albums1
Singles2
Music videos5
Producer55

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.

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

Albums

Studio albums

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Year Album details Peak chart positions
US
Heat.
[1]
2004 A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One —
2005 Omar Rodriguez
  • Released: December 5, 2005
  • Label: GSL
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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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
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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 —
Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead
  • Released: September 19, 2008
  • Label: Willie Anderson Recordings
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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Old Money
  • Released: November 10, 2008
  • Label: Stones Throw
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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2009 Megaritual
  • Released: January 26, 2009
  • Label: Willie Anderson Recordings
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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Despair
  • Released: January 26, 2009
  • Label: Willie Anderson Recordings
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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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
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Solar Gambling
  • Released: December 1, 2009
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download, LP
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2010 Tychozorente
  • Released: September 14, 2010
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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Cizaña de los Amores
  • Released: October 11, 2010
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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Mantra Hiroshima
  • Released: November 29, 2010
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download
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Un Escorpión Perfumado
  • Released: December 20, 2010
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download, LP
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2012 Un Corazón de Nadie
  • Released: May 17, 2012
  • Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download
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Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar
  • Released: June 20, 2012
  • Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download
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Octopus Kool Aid
  • Released: July 24, 2012
  • Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, LP, download
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2013 Equinox
  • Released: January 1, 2013
  • Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download
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Woman Gives Birth to Tomato!
  • Released: January 1, 2013
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download
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Unicorn Skeleton Mask
  • Released: January 2, 2013
  • Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download
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¿Sólo Extraño?
  • Released: March 8, 2013
  • Label: Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download
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2016 Sworn Virgins
  • Released: July 15, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Corazones
  • Released: July 29, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Blind Worms, Pious Swine
  • Released: August 12, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Arañas en la Sombra
  • Released: August 26, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Umbrella Mistress
  • Released: September 9, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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El Bien y Mal Nos Une
  • Released: September 23, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Cell Phone Bikini
  • Released: October 7, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Infinity Drips
  • Released: October 21, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Weekly Mansions
  • Released: November 4, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Zapopan
  • Released: November 18, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Nom de Guerre Cabal
  • Released: December 2, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Some Need It Lonely
  • Released: December 16, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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A Lovejoy
  • Released: December 30, 2016
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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2017 Roman Lips
  • Released: January 13, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Zen Thrills
  • Released: January 27, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Chocolate Tumor Hormone Parade
  • Released: February 10, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Ensayo de un Desaparecido
  • Released: February 24, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Azul, Mis Dientes
  • Released: March 10, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Gorilla Preacher Cartel
  • Released: March 24, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Killing Tingled Lifting Retreats
  • Released: April 7, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Solid State Mercenaries
  • Released: April 21, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Birth of a Ghost
  • Released: May 5, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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Doom Patrol
  • Released: July 14, 2017
  • Label: Ipecac / ORL Projects
  • Format: Download
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2020 The Clouds Hill Tapes Parts I, II & III —
2023 Is It the Clouds?
  • Released: December 1, 2023
  • Label: Clouds Hill
  • Format: LP, download
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"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet

Year Album details
2010 Sepulcros de Miel
  • Released: May 30, 2010
  • Label: Sargent House,
    Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download, LP

As El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

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

As El Trío de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Year Album details
2010 Ciencia de los Inútiles
  • Released: February 14, 2010
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: Download, LP

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante

Year Album details
2010 Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante
  • Released: April 30, 2010
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download, LP

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward

Year Album details
2008 Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward
  • Released: June 10, 2008
  • Label: Infrasonic Sound
  • Format: CD, download, LP

Live albums

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group

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

Compilation albums

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Year Album details
2011 Telesterion
  • Released: April 16, 2011
  • Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
  • Format: CD, download, LP

Extended plays

As Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Damo Suzuki

Year Album details
2006 Please Heat This Eventually
  • Released: December 2006 / January 23, 2007
  • Label: GSL
  • Format: Download, 12" vinyl

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch

Year Album details
2007 Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch
  • Released: October 8, 2007
  • Label: Willie Anderson Recordings
  • Format: CD, download, LP

As Faust & Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Year Album details
2012 This Is Not Music, This Is Not Us and We Are Not Here
  • Released: December 14, 2012 / November 8, 2013, single vinyl reissue
  • Label: Clouds Hill
  • Format: 10" vinyl

As Kimono Kult

Year Album details
2014 Hiding in the Light
  • Released: March 4, 2014
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records
  • Format: Download

Singles

As Nadie

Year Title Album
2014 "Winter's Gone" Non-album single

As Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante

Year Title Album
2005 "0=2"
"0" 		The Special 12 Singles Series,
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante

Other appearances

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".
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".
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".
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

As producer

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.
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.
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.
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

Videography

Music videos

Year Title For Director
2008 "Calibration" Omar Rodriguez Lopez Omar Rodriguez Lopez
2009 "Asco Que Conmueve los Puntos Erógenos" Omar Rodriguez Lopez Omar Rodriguez Lopez
2010 "Miercoles" El Trío de Omar Rodriguez Lopez Omar Rodriguez Lopez
"Polaridad" Omar Rodriguez Lopez Omar Rodriguez Lopez
"Agua Dulce De Pulpo" Omar Rodriguez Lopez Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Rodriguez Lopez Productions catalog

RLP001 Cryptomnesia
RLP002 Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare (by Zechs Marquise)
RLP003 Xenophanes
RLP004 Solar Gambling
RLP005 Los Sueños de un Hígado
RLP006 Ciencia de los Inútiles
RLP007 Sepulcros de Miel
RLP008 Octahedron (by The Mars Volta) - vinyl only
RLP009 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante
RLP010 Un Escorpión Perfumado
RLP011 N/A
RLP012 Sin Sin Sin (by Le Butcherettes)
RLP013 Cizaña de los Amores
RLP014 Tychozorente
RLP015 N/A
RLP016 N/A
RLP017 N/A
RLP018 Mantra Hiroshima
RLP019 Dōitashimashite
RLP020 N/A
RLP021 Telesterion
RLP022 N/A
RLP023 Getting Paid (by Zechs Marquise)
RLP024 Before Gardens After Gardens (by Big Sir)
RLP025 Noctourniquet (by The Mars Volta) - vinyl only
RLP026 Un Corazón de Nadie
RLP027 Octopus Kool Aid
RLP028 Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar
RLP029 Touch but Don't Look (by Deantoni Parks)
RLP030 The Sentimental Engine Slayer

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Peaks on the US Heatseekers Albums chart:
    • Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo and Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far): "Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Chart History: Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
    • Cryptomnesia: "Heatseekers Albums: May 23, 2009". Billboard. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Exposito, Suzy (April 4, 2017). "Calle 13's Residente Talks Exploring Global Roots on Star-Studded Solo Debut". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media LLC. Retrieved April 10, 2017.