La Realidad De Los Sueños (transl. The Reality of Dreams) is a box set by the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Released more than nine years after the band's last official album, Noctourniquet, the box set was an indication of the group's potential reunion after years of inactivity. The set includes eighteen LP vinyl records, a photo book of behind-the-scenes photography, and two pins.[4] All of the band's then-current official discography, excluding Live and Scabdates, is included as well as a previously unreleased demo album of De-Loused in the Comatorium, titled Landscape Tantrums. Also included are an unreleased song from the De-Loused in the Comatorium sessions titled "A Plague Upon Your Hissing Children" and a version of Eunuch Provocateur recorded in the same period.[5] A Plague Upon Your Hissing Children had been bootlegged and circulating on the internet for years under slightly different names before being included in the box set.[6] Such is the case for this version of Eunuch Provocateur and also Concertina which are tracks on their earliest release, Tremulant. These versions of the tracks were rerecorded during the De-Loused in the Comatorium sessions under Rick Rubin. While certain unreleased songs and B-sides like these and Mr. Muggs were included in the box set, the absence of others like Ambuletz and the rerecorded Concertina are especially intriguing.[7] The name of the album likely refers to a lyric in Concertina, "la realidad de tu sueño," much in the same way Landscape Tantrums is taken from a lyric in Cut That City from the same inaugural release.
The box set itself is a rhombus-shaped encasing that pulls apart to reveal the LPs and photo book. It sits upon a carboard stand and features a series of dream-themed, surrealist collage artworks made from the band's previous releases. The LPs are pressed on black vinyl. The record label overseeing the box set's release, Clouds Hill, priced it at £320.00 GBP with a limited five-thousand copy release.[4]
Track listing
Tremulant (Disc 1)| Title |
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| 1. | "Cut That City" | 5:44 |
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| 2. | "Concertina" | 4:54 |
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| 3. | "Eunuch Provocateur" | 8:48 |
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De-Loused in the Comatorium (Disc 2)| Title |
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| 1. | "Son Et Lumière" | 1:35 |
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| 2. | "Inertiatic ESP" | 4:23 |
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| 3. | "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" | 7:30 |
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| 4. | "Tira Me A Las Arañas" | 1:28 |
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| 5. | "Drunkship Of Lanterns" | 7:05 |
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| 6. | "Eriatarka" | 6:20 |
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| 7. | "Cicatriz ESP" | 12:28 |
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| 8. | "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed" | 4:57 |
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| 9. | "Televators" | 6:18 |
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| 10. | "Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt" | 8:41 |
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Frances the Mute (Disc 3)| Title |
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| 1. | "Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus" | 13:02 |
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| 2. | "The Widow" | 5:50 |
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| 3. | "L’Via L’Viaquez" | 12:21 |
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| 4. | "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore" | 13:48 |
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| 5. | "Cassandra Gemini (Part 1)" | 14:52 |
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| 6. | "Cassandra Gemini (Part 2)" | 17:39 |
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- Track 1 is divided into parts a, Sarcophagi; b, Umbilical Syllables; c, Facillis Dascenus Averni; d, Con Safo
- Track 4 is divided into parts a, Vade Mecum; b, Pour Another Icepick; c, Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma); d, Con Safo
- Track 5 is divided into parts a, Tarantism; b, Plant A Nail In The Navel Stream; c, Famine Pulse
- Track 6 is divided into parts a, Famine Pulse; b, Multiple Spouse Wounds; c, Sarcophagi
Amputechture (Disc 4)| Title |
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| 1. | "Vicarious Atonement" | 7:19 |
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| 2. | "Tetragrammaton" | 16:41 |
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| 3. | "Vermicide" | 4:16 |
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| 4. | "Meccamputechture" | 11:03 |
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| 5. | "Asilos Magdalena" | 6:34 |
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| 6. | "Viscera Eyes" | 9:23 |
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| 7. | "Day Of The Baphomets" | 11:57 |
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| 8. | "El Ciervo Vulnerado" | 8:50 |
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The Bedlam in Goliath (Disc 5)| Title |
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| 1. | "Aberinkula" | 5:45 |
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| 2. | "Metatron" | 8:12 |
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| 3. | "Ilyena" | 5:36 |
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| 4. | "Wax Simulacra" | 2:39 |
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| 5. | "Goliath" | 7:15 |
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| 6. | "Tourniquet Man" | 2:28 |
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| 7. | "Cavalettas" | 9:32 |
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| 8. | "Agadez" | 6:44 |
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| 9. | "Askepios" | 5:11 |
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| 10. | "Ouroborous" | 6:36 |
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| 11. | "Soothsayer" | 9:08 |
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| 12. | "Conjugal Burns" | 6:36 |
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Mr. Muggs (Disc 6)| Title |
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| 1. | "Mr. Muggs" | 3:15 |
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| 2. | "Mr. Muggs" | 3:15 |
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Octahedron (Disc 7)| Title |
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| 1. | "Since We’ve Been Wrong" | 7:22 |
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| 2. | "Teflon" | 5:06 |
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| 3. | "Halo Of Nembutals" | 5:32 |
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| 4. | "With Twilight As My Guide" | 7:54 |
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| 5. | "Cotopaxi" | 3:40 |
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| 6. | "Desperate Graves" | 4:58 |
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| 7. | "Copernicus" | 7:24 |
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| 8. | "Luciforms" | 8:22 |
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Noctourniquet (Disc 8)| Title |
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| 1. | "The Whip Hand" | 4:49 |
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| 2. | "Aegis" | 5:11 |
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| 3. | "Dyslexicon" | 4:22 |
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| 4. | "Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound" | 6:43 |
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| 5. | "The Malkin Jewel" | 4:44 |
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| 6. | "Lapochka" | 4:16 |
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| 7. | "In Absentia" | 7:26 |
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| 8. | "Imago" | 3:58 |
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| 9. | "Molochwalker" | 3:33 |
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| 10. | "Trinkets Pale Of Moon" | 4:25 |
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| 11. | "Vedamalady" | 3:54 |
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| 12. | "Nocturniquet" | 5:39 |
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| 13. | "Zed And Two Naughts" | 5:36 |
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Landscape Tantrums (Original Unfinished Recordings Of De-Loused In The Comatorium) (Disc 9)| Title |
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| 1. | "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" | 6:38 |
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| 2. | "Son Et Lumière" | 2:18 |
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| 3. | "Inertiatic ESP" | 3:58 |
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| 4. | "Drunkship Of Lanterns" | 5:58 |
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| 5. | "Eriatarka" | 5:35 |
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| 6. | "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed" | 4:38 |
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| 7. | "Televators" | 4:56 |
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| 8. | "Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt" | 12:32 |
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Eunuch Provocateur (Disc 10)| Title |
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| 1. | "Eunuch Provocateur" | 6:12 |
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A Plague Upon Your Hissing Children (Disc 11)| Title |
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| 1. | "A Plague Upon Your Hissing Children" | 4:41 |
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Notes
- Mr. Muggs on disc 6 is a B-side to The Bedlam in Goliath
- Landscape Tantrums is a demo album of De-Loused in the Comatorium produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez before the involvement of Rick Rubin
- Eunuch Provocateur on disc 10 is a rerecorded version overseen by Rick Rubin during the De-Loused in the Comatorium sessions
- A Plague Upon Your Hissing Children is an outtake of De-Loused in the Comatorium that had previously been leaked online for years
References
- ^ Ehrlich, Brenna (Apr 22, 2021). "The Mars Volta's 'La Realidad de los Sueños' Is a Time Machine, a Treasure Chest, a Key". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "The Mars Volta, "La Realidad de los Sueños"". FLOOD.
- ^ Johnstonpublished, Emma (Apr 23, 2021). "The Mars Volta test rock's limits on La Realidad De Los Suenos". Louder.
- ^ a b "The Mars Volta - La Realidad De Los Sueños (Vinyl Box Set)". UK/ROW Shop. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ^ The Mars Volta - La Realidad De Los Sueños, 2021-04-23, retrieved 2025-09-16
- ^ The Mars Volta - A Plague Upon Your Hissing. Rowan2. 2008-02-07. Retrieved 2025-09-16 – via YouTube.
- ^ Barnes, Dan (2021-04-20). "Boxset Review: The Mars Volta - La Realidad De Los Sueños". The Razor's Edge. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
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