Un Escorpión Perfumado is the nineteenth studio album 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...

 as a solo artist. Marcel Rodríguez-López

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....

 and Deantoni Parks

Deantoni Parks

Deantoni Parks is a new wave/avant-garde/experimental drummer, songwriter, film director, actor and record producer born in Newnan, Georgia. He is the founder; producer and drummer of the New York band, KUDU, and one-half of the writing duo, Dark Angels with producer and keyboardist Nick Kasper,...

, who toured with the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group in 2010, are featured on the album. The title is a reference to the book A Perfumed Scorpion

A Perfumed Scorpion

A Perfumed Scorpion is a book by the prolific noted writer on Sufism, Idries Shah, that was first published by Octagon Press in 1978, the same year as he published two other major works: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way and The Hundred Tales of Wisdom.Shortly...

.

On November 29 an official video for the song "Agua Dulce De Pulpo" was released. The digital download version was released on December 20. Pre-orders for the CD started shipping from Hellomerch.com around January 3, the first 150 of which received a poster of the album artwork. The vinyl edition shipped around February 1, 2011, with an additional 150 posters being distributed.

An alternate version of "Agua Dulce de Pulpo" was performed live once and only time by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group

The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group is the main side project of Omar Rodríguez-López. The group is most often a live entity to perform the various outlets of his solo music aside from The Mars Volta.-History:...

 on Metamorphose Festival in Japan on September 4, 2010.

Tracklisting

1. "Estrangular El Extranjero" – 6:30
2. "Que Dice Pessoa?" – 7:07
3. "Agua Dulce De Pulpo" – 5:43
4. "Incesto O Pasión?" – 5:53
5. "Mensaje Imputente" – 4:48
6. "El Diablo Y La Tierra" – 7:42

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...
  
   – vocals, guitars, bass, sequencers, synths, percussion
• 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....
  
   – synths
• Deantoni Parks
  Deantoni Parks
  Deantoni Parks is a new wave/avant-garde/experimental drummer, songwriter, film director, actor and record producer born in Newnan, Georgia. He is the founder; producer and drummer of the New York band, KUDU, and one-half of the writing duo, Dark Angels with producer and keyboardist Nick Kasper,...
  
   – drums

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format
Worldwide	December 20, 2010	Rodriguez Lopez Productions	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
Worldwide	January 3, 2011	Rodriguez Lopez Productions	CD
Worldwide	February 1, 2011	Rodriguez Lopez Productions	LP LP record The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...