A Manual Dexterity : Soundtrack Volume One

by Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez

A Manual Dexterity : Soundtrack Volume One cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 August 2004
  • Label: Gold Standard Laboratories
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 52:48
  • Community rating: 3.34/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The first official solo record from The Mars Volta's visionary guitarist was intended as the soundtrack to an unreleased film. The album is a chaotic, dense instrumental masterwork, fusing heavily affected, psychedelic guitar lines with complex progressive rock structures and subtle Hispanic music influences.

Genres

Descriptors: Soundtrack, noisy, complex, technical, avant-garde, experimental, progressive, instrumental, fusion

Tracklist

  1. Around Knuckle White Tile (7:16)
  2. Dyna Sark Arches (4:38)
  3. Here The Tame Go By (5:11)
  4. Deus Ex Machina (5:03)
  5. Dramatic Theme (7:16)
  6. A Dressing Failure (2:54)
  7. Sensory Decay Part II (6:04)
  8. Of Blood Blue Blisters (4:53)
  9. Dream Sequence (6:11)
  10. The Palpitations Form A Limit (3:22)

Credits

  • Blake Fleming - drums, drums, handclaps
  • Jeremy Michael Ward - melodica, pedalboard [guitar pedals], voice [yelling]
  • Cedric Bixler-Zavala - percussion, handclaps, vocals, lyrics by
  • John Frusciante - synthesizer [mini moog], synthesizer [mini moog], synthesizer [a100], guitar
  • Angel Marcelo Rodriguez-Cheverez - songwriter, vocals, lyrics by
  • Cecilio Ortiz - guitar
  • Alberto El Professor Aragonez - percussion
  • David Lopez - trumpet

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