The Mars Volta - Unreleased (2013)

When I posted the last album from The Mars Volta I mentioned that back in 2013 a fan over at The Mars Volta’s message board The Comatorium claimed to have been sent a folder of 15 tracks with the message, “share this”. Former drummer Thomas Prigen has since stepped in to confirm that the find is legitimate, and detailed the tracks he performed on, while some of the songs also appear to be solo efforts by guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. The psych-prog titans broke up in January 2013 after more than a decade in action, leaving a sprawling legacy of gargantuan solos and conceptual indulgences, so a find like this one was perhaps to be expected. All of the files have a random selection of numbers or letters as titles, but fans have listened to them and worked out titles for most of them, so enjoy this collection of mostly instrumental recordings from one of the truly great progressive rock bands of the early 2000's.   

Track listing

01 Clouds
02 Molochwalker (early demo)
03 Sea Is Rising (demo)
04 dp (possible Omar Rodriguez-Lopez solo demo)
05 ef4 (possible Casate Colmillo demo)
06 Postulate
07 Casate Colmillo (demo)
08 f9h0 (another possible Casate Colmillo demo)
09 Whisper To Your Flinch/Peeling Off
10 Happiness (demo)
11 qr5`
12 Clouds (demo)
13 Asco Que Conmueve Los Puntos Erogenos/New York City (demo)
14 Vicarious Atonement (demo)
15 Clouds (early Omar demo)