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OZOMATLI - Don't Mess With The Dragon
| Popmatters | | With nine guys in a band, you’re bound to have a lot of diverse musical influences. Multi-racial, multi-Grammy-winning group Ozomatli’s newest release, Don’t Mess With the Dragon” combines the Latin rock, rap, reggae, and political overtones the ensemble is known for with a generous twist of pop, making the disc palatable to a more mainstream audience....full text |
| | Blogcritics | | Don’t Mess With the Dragon, the fifth full length release by LA-based Ozomatli makes the concerted effort to do two things. One, smooth out their songwriting process so that every track was a collaborative effort between band members (yay). Two, bring in producer KC Porter to help give the sound a more packaged, radio-playable spin (ummm….)....full text |
| | Los Angeles Times | ALWAYS a dance band at its core, L.A.'s own Ozomatli has also woven political and cultural observations into its globe-spinning blend of Latin, rock, hip-hop, funk, Indian and Asian sounds with lyrics sung and rapped in English and Spanish.
The 10-piece group's tirelessly percussive fourth studio album does reference New Orleans after Katrina in the resilient funky rap of "Magnolia Soul" and touches on the Iraq war with the beautifully sorrowful Spanish-language ballad "Violeta." The dragon in the title track, however, is not any force of government or society but the travails of life that begin to preoccupy one's mind as adulthood creeps in and theory is replaced by experience....full text |
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