Don't Mess With The Dragon

Ozomatli - Don't Mess With The Dragon

Don't Mess With The Dragon
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Artist: Ozomatli
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Can't Stop
  2. City Of Angels
  3. After Party
  4. Don't Mess With The Dragon
  5. La Gallina
  6. Magnolia Soul
  7. Here We Go
  8. La Temperatura
  9. Violeta
  10. Creo
  11. When I Close My Eyes
  12. La Segunda Mano

Free Music Notes for Don't Mess With The Dragon

Free Music Review: It's fire
Hit: 4 Stars

If you're a fan of Ozomatli and someone who'd never heard of them asked you what genre they are, chances are you wouldn't be able to give him/her an answer (what their very name means is a head-scratcher). But their latest album Don't Mess with the Dragon is filled with great stuff.

"Can't Stop" is an ideal way to open the album because you indeed won't be able to stop playing the disc after that track. From there you'll find standouts like "Here We Go", "When I Close My Eyes" and the necessary tribute-to-your-hometown, "City of Angels". And an Ozomatli album wouldn't be complete without some Latin tunes, so "La Gallina" and "Violeta" are good examples of that.

I only gave the album four stars because a few of the songs start to sound the same after a while and also, it's pretty hard to top their previous album, Street Signs. But Don't Mess with the Dragon is still a blazin' album that belongs in your collection.

Anthony Rupert

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On their fourth full-length studio release, Ozomatli serve up a rhythmically seething musical m?lange that serves as virtual mirror to the dizzying cultural contradictions at the heart of their Los Angeles hometown, wrapping it in a studio-polished veneer (largely courtesy of Santana/Ricky Martin producer KC Porter) that only underscores their intriguing reflections. They wear their civic pride as badge of honor on the gritty "City of Angels," a hip-hop-funk-fusion anthem that courses straight from the street to the stars. The joyous "La Temperatura," a tribute to the city's pro-immigrant marches of '06, picks up the local thread and weaves it into the band's longstanding social conscience, one they focus on Washington's inept response to Hurricane Katrina via the savory, N'Awlinz-meets-Norwalk swagger of "Magnolia Soul." The title track hints at a few conquered personal demons, while the sultry, Los Lobos-esque Spanish ballad "Violeta," the infectious 80s-ska-funk-meets-00s-punk-pop of "When I Close My Eyes," and the hip-hop-jarocho stew "La Segundo Mano" (featuring Queztal's Martha Gonzales on vocals) stand as vibrantly disparate testaments to the band's true range of pan-cultural musical fervor and accomplishments. --Jerry McCulley

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