Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon

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L'année dernière, The Mars Volta ended a decade of silence with a self-titled album that has not yet said it all. Indeed, on April 21, 2023, the band will release 'Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon', an acoustic version of the album described as folk by Omar Rodriguez Lopez. The Mars Volta announced 'Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon', an album that acoustically reinvents the material with which Omar Rodriguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala returned to music a year ago. According to Rodriguez-López's words, it is the "folk disco" version that returns to the sounds of the original material mixed with its traditional Caribbean roots. It was recorded during the pandemic in his native Puerto Rico. "It was a fun process," he said. "It made me think about the history of recording music in the United States. There was "traditional music," which became "Americana," or country music. And the other genre was "race music," which corresponded exactly to what it sounded like: music made by anyone who was an "immigrant," meaning primarily Black people. That is to say, everything that was not country. In other words, all the interesting stuff: r&b, blues, rock'n'roll, electronic music... It says a lot about this country," he added. "I realized that I could finally make a record like that now, I just had to get there," he said. "It was the experience. And it was fun. I feel like The Mars Volta is finally starting, that's why the last album was self-titled, because we finally stripped everything down and returned to what the concept was at the beginning. And this acoustic version comes from a deep place, with its own meaning and its own philosophy, and its own reason for being," Rodriguez López added about the material.