Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo
Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo (It's Called Bison, Not Buffalo) is the third studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López and the second in the Amsterdam series. It was written and recorded in 2005 in California and Amsterdam and released on May 29, 2007 by Gold Standard Laboratories on vinyl and CD. A limited brown marble vinyl edition of 750 copies was also made.
The album was created while Omar lived in Amsterdam in November 2005, at the same time as The Mars Volta’s Amputechture and Omar’s soundtrack for the film El Búfalo de la Noche—the title comes from that project. The liner notes explain the record is Omar’s musical response to the film. The artwork is by Damon Locks.
Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo has 3 vocal tracks and 7 instrumentals and includes an alternate live version of Please Heat This Eventually (without Damo Suzuki) from a show in Kortrijk, Belgium. Omar did most of the composing, with contributions from The Mars Volta members Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Marcel Rodríguez-López, Juan Alderete, and Adrián Terrazas-González. Cameos include Money Mark, John Frusciante, and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore on the final track (recorded while he was still with the band).
Several connections to The Mars Volta live and studio material appear on the album: Rapid Fire Tollbooth evolved into the live piece and later became the song Goliath on The Bedlam in Goliath; Lurking About In A Cold Sweat (Held Together by Venom) shares a chord progression with an unreleased Mars Volta song and is linked to the leaked Ramrod Tapes as In the Vulpine Clouds. Fans sometimes refer to it as Clouds, Orchestrina, or Clouds/Orchestrina—the official title is In the Vulpine Clouds.
Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo is Omar’s first solo album to chart on Billboard, reaching #40 on the Top Heatseekers chart. All tracks are written by Omar Rodríguez-López unless noted. The album runs about 45 minutes, with a separate bonus disc offering additional material.
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