The Mars Volta have felt close to a return almost constantly since their end in 2013.
The Mars Volta back catalogue – studio albums, EPs and the unfinished recordings of Landscape Tantrums – will all be boxed up into a vinyl reissue on April 23rd.
Just 5000 copies of La Realidad De Los Sueños are being pressed, an 18LP collection in total which has been specially remastered for vinyl by Chris von Rautenkranz.
“We have taken care to give the sound more space,” Chris says. “To make it sound more lively and organic than the original, which was mastered for digital formats.”
The inclusion of Landscape Tantrums was made possible thanks to Omar Rodríguez-López keeping guard of the sessions’ master tapes, recordings he finally gave the green light for release:
“It is the right time, to open these recordings up to the public. As a work of art in its own right, this set also needs to be seen as the end of a story.”