It is with great remorse that I report that, after a decade and a half dozen studio albums, frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala announced his departure from progressive rock band The Mars Volta.
Last night, 23 January, 2013 at 9:39pm EST, Cedric discussed the announcement via Twitter in a series of twenty successive tweets:
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294273086482677761
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294274059234062336
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294274439791656961
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294274900212977667
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294275132904570880
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294275495778988032
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294275864588349441
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294276250523037696
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294277212893503488
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294278505871601666
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294279747511406592
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294281966428237824
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294282739589464064
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294283616513581056
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294286035578404865
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294296146573135872
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294298419881717760
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294298684571648002
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294308180358463488
https://twitter.com/cedricbixler_/status/294308876868808704
Among the matters discussed in the tweets are the hiatus that the Mars Volta announced late last year, Omar’s work in other projects, Cedric’s own work with his solo project, as well as an allusion to Omar’s less charismatic performance during the At The Drive-In reunion tour, shortly prior to which Omar’s mother passed away.
Less than ten hours earlier, UK music magazine NME posted a brief interview with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist-songwriter of The Mars Volta and longtime partner of Cedric, to discuss his new band, Bosnian Rainbows. In the interview, Omar discussed working with Cedric and the current discontinuation thereof:
It’s been very strange being without Cedric. It’s one of those bittersweet moments, it’s great for both of us because he’s making this great solo record, which is more of an acoustic thing. I’m really excited to hear another side of him and to work on music without me. He’s composing all the music, playing all the instruments, literally doing everything himself, rather than just singing over the top of my songs.
As of this posting, Omar has not publicly responded to Cedric’s tweets.
|||Cedric’s Twitter|||Bosnian Rainbows on NME|||Bosnian Rainbows on SoundCloud|||
-A.
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