Rodriguez-Lopez And Frusciante Reveal Supergroup
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has left former band The Mars Volta far behind him, and formed a supergroup called Kimono Kult with ex-colleague and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante.
Hear their debut track Todo Menos El Dolor below, taken from their four-track EP Hiding In The Light which is on sale now.
The band also features Rodriguez-Lopez’s Bosnian Rainbows bandmate Teri Gender Bender on lead vocals, plus guitarist Dante White, string playes Laena Geronimo and drummer Nicole Turley.
Gender Bender says Kimono Kult had a good reason for continuing to write lyrics in Spanish, as she’d done with Bosnian Rainbows’ most recent work. She tells Rolling Stone: “There’s so much left to explore. Because Spanish-speaking singers are strict with so many unspoken rules, I approached my mother language as if I were an alien from outer space. That was the mindset.”
Of the debut track, which translates as Everything, Anything but the Pain, she explains: “The lyric is for the listener’s imagination – it goes way beyond language and it’s more about atmosphere. To me it could be a story about an alien that wanted to eat cats, but it caused the critter so much pain that he became a vegetarian. Every interpretation is valid.”
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Kimono Kult: John Frusciante y Omar Rodríguez-López a la cabeza
Los ex guitarristas de Red Hot Chili Peppers y The Mars Volta respectivamente, inician un nuevo camino musical con este proyecto experimental.
Kimono Kult, la nueva sociedad musical de Frusciante y Rodríguez-López, lanza su primer disco en marzo.
No es la primera vez que Frusciante y Rodríguez-López trabajan juntos. Esta sociedad viene desde hace más de una década, con la colaboración del por entonces violero de los Chili Peppers en De-Loused in the Comatorium, álbum debut de los Mars Volta, banda para la que volvería a tocar en Amputechture (2004), The Bedlam in Goliath (2007) y Octahedron (2009).
Además, Frusciante y Rodríguez-López también tocaron juntos en los discos solistas A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One (2004) y Sepulcros de Miel (2010). El fruto más notable de esta sociedad es Omar Rodríguez-López & John Frusciante (2010).
Ahora, estos dos notables instrumentistas y músicos de vanguardia vuelven a firmar otro proyecto conjunto. Con el atractivo nombre de Kimono Kult empiezan este nuevo proyecto de miras experimentales que completan el vocalista Teri Gender Bender (que ya trabajó con López en Bosnian Rainbows), el guitarrista y tecladista Dante White-Aliano, la bajista Nicole Turley y la multiinstrumentista Laena Gerónimo.
