This is what I was up to at The Haunt in Brighton on Wednesday night. Bosnian Rainbows is the latest new project from Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, featuring The Mars Volta's Deantoni Parks, Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender and Parks' longtime collaborator Nicci Kasper.
The show was demonstrated a surprisingly poppy edge to Rodriguez-Lopez's new work (helped by the band having 3 keyboards between them). Most heartening of all, however, was Rodriguez-Lopez who spent much of the night absorbed in frantic guitar-swinging dance moves. It has been a long time since the guitarist has looked that excited onstage, as emphasised by the break in proceedings to allow Rodriguez-Lopez to stand stage-front and issue thanks to the audience and introductions to the member of his new band. Interestingly, Omar also referred to Parks as his "great collaborator", a description that would in the past have been reserved for a certain falsetto-singing frontman of more well known Rodriguez-Lopez projects.
They ended with a massive electro-Sabbath-krautrock that begs to be recorded. Hopefully Rodriguez sticks with this latest project long enough for it to come to fruition.
