On Tuesday, November 8th, The Mars Volta will be releasing « Scabdates », which will feature renditions of Volta tracks recorded live over the course of 2003-2005 touring in support of this year’s Frances The Mute and 2003’s De-Loused In The Comatorium, drawn out to their epic, endurance-defying lengths, making for a 74-minute sampling of the Mars Volta live experience, with packaging featuring the photography of longtime Volta collaborator Danielle Van Ark. Scabdates was assembled, produced and mixed by Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez. All music by Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez, all lyrics by Cedric Bixler Zavala, and performed by The Mars Volta. The track listing for scabdates is as follows:
- abrasions mount the timpani
- take the veil cerpin taxt
- a) gust of mutts
- b) and ghosted pouts
- caviglia
- concertina
- haruspex
- cicatriz
- a) pt I
- b) pt II
- c) pt III
- d) pt IV