Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez is a band consisting of Omar Rodriguez Lopez (guitar), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals), Juan Alderete de la Pe?a (bass guitar), Jonathan Hischke (synth bass) and Zach Hill (drums). Originally this side-project of Omar Rodriguez Lopez's was simply a collaboration with Hella drummer Zach Hill, but eventually Rodriguez Lopez formed an entire band, adding The Mars Volta bandmates and collaborators of frequence - Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Juan Alderete de la Pe?a - as well as Hill's Hella colleague Jonathan Hischke to the lineup.

Originally this side-project of Omar Rodriguez Lopez's was simply a collaboration with Hella drummer Zach Hill, but eventually Rodriguez Lopez formed an entire band, adding The Mars Volta bandmates and collaborators of frequence - Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Juan Alderete de la Pe?a - as well as Hill's Hella colleague Jonathan Hischke to the lineup. Since 2006, three records have been recorded by the group, the first of which, titled Cryptomnesia, was released worldwide on May 5th, 2009.