Omar Rodríguez-López THE CLOUDS HILL TAPES Part I II & III These recordings of three sessions
dating from the years 2018 2019 and taken at the Clouds Hill Studio are now being published
digitally and as a 3-LP vinyl box set. Part I features eight pieces and Parts II and III six
pieces each which have been entirely newly arranged produced by Johann Scheerer and
performed by Omar Rodríguez-López and a range of guest musicians. THE CLOUDS HILL TAPES Part I
- III featuring 20 tracks that present his music in a new light. Omar Rodríguez-López has long
considered the Hamburg Clouds Hill studio his creative second home. He has known the producer
Johann Scheerer for 15 years and they are close friends as well as creative partners. Johann is
great at what he does. What makes him truly special is his instinct. This helps him find most
interesting sounds make the right decision? is how Omar Rodríguez-López describes it.
Whenever the two meet a shared creative process ensues immediately. This is just what happened
at the end of 2018: Really Omar Rodríguez-López had come to Hamburg as a visitor at the Clouds
Hill Festival but Johann Scheerer invited him to use free studio capacity for a session in
which to re-record outstanding pieces from the previous solo albums. We got the band together
rehearsed for two days - and then we ran the tapes Omar Rodríguez -López recalls. These
original tapes can incidentally be seen on the covers of the three albums resulting from the
sessions. THE CLOUDS HILL TAPES will be one of the reference works in the musical cosmos of
this unique artist.
