Megaritual is a record by Omar Rodríguez-López

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, writer, actor and film director who was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico...

 released by Willie Anderson Recordings.

Megaritual is the fifth and final album in the series initiated and recorded by Omar Rodriguez Lopez in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 in 2005. Committed to tape in 2006 and mixed the following year, the album features nine instrumental tracks performed solely by Rodriguez-Lopez and his brother, Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez

Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez

Marcellus Rodriguez-Lopez is a multi-instrumentalist musician and younger brother of Omar Rodríguez-López.- Biography :He has been noted as to playing the bongos, congas, Drums, cymbals, Maracas, keyboards and Shekere....

. Omar claims Megaritual was "an exercise to be closer to my brother."

The first three tracks, and their titles, all flow together to form one 10-minute piece.

Tracklisting

1. "A Device Imagined to Turn" – 3:22
2. "Screaming Babies Inside Out" – 3:22
3. "At the Push of a Button" – 3:22
4. "Bells at the Slipstream" – 3:56
5. "Good Is Repaid With Evil" – 2:30
6. "Panta Section" – 6:51
7. "Hands Vs. Helix" – 3:08
8. "Dispanec Triage" – 7:47
9. "Dead Hisses to Match Our Own" – 4:55

Personnel

• Omar Rodríguez-López
  Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
  Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, writer, actor and film director who was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico...
  
   - Guitar, Bass, Piano, Synth
• Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
  Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
  Marcellus Rodriguez-Lopez is a multi-instrumentalist musician and younger brother of Omar Rodríguez-López.- Biography :He has been noted as to playing the bongos, congas, Drums, cymbals, Maracas, keyboards and Shekere....
  
   - Drums, Percussion, Piano, Synth

Release history

Region	Date	Label
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	January 26, 2009	Willie Anderson Recordings