Crumbs Of Cryptomnesia & A Mars Liftoff Date

Some pretty thrilling Mars Volta news arrived today from The Comatorium: a new Volta album is due out this year- June 19th to be exact- and the working title is said to be Octahedron. 

As if that wasn’t enough to put a little fire into this fine Saturday morning, this brand-new clip from the new(ish) Mars Volta / Hella powerplayer group El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodríguez López should do the trick:

The band is composed of López, Volta singer Cedric Bixler Zavala and bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña, drummer Zach Hill and synth bassist Jonathan Hischke of the bizarrely awesome Hella. El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodríguez López has already recorded three albums’ worth of material, and the first batch of tracks- Cryptomnesia- is due out May 5th with a limited vinyl pressing to be released on Record Store Day (April 18th).

Hill has also teamed up with Prefuse centerpiece Guillermo Scott Herren to form the duo Diamond Watch Wrists, and their debut Ice Capped At Both Ends is due via Warp on May 5- the same day as Cryptomnesia I. Don’t expect it to sound anything like his other two projects – it’s got much more of a Pinbak-on-acid kind of feel to it.