{"id":759,"date":"2010-08-13T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=759"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:43:21","slug":"ozomatli-fire-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/ozomatli-fire-away\/","title":{"rendered":"OZOMATLI + Fire Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fire-Away-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-760\" title=\"Fire-Away-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fire-Away-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Away\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fire-Away-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fire-Away-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>O<\/strong><strong>ZOMATLI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fire Away<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Mercer Street\/Downtown]<\/p>\n<p>Ozomatli\u2019s music has been called a collision of styles, a cultural mash-up, and a 20-car pileup of genres. It\u2019s also some of the most joyfully energetic music you\u2019ll ever hear. On its fifth album, the L.A.-based band stirs its blend of salsa, ska, samba, funk, and hip-hop in ways few groups could conceive. Imagine tossing the English Beat, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Caetano Veloso, and Sly and the Family Stone into a magical blender and you get some sense of Ozomatli\u2019s eclectic approach. High points on their latest, <em>Fire Away<\/em>, include \u201cAre You Ready?,\u201d a horn-and-percussion-driven blast of salsa-flavored ska; \u201cYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah,\u201d an exultant Latin pop anthem fitted with shrieking sax; and \u201cGay Vatos in Love,\u201d a rockabilly-tinged tune with a soaring chorus. Even when serving up the occasional ballad, such as the plucked-guitar tune \u201cIt\u2019s Only Time,\u201d Ozomatli offers the sense of something celebratory and vibrant lurking just below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OZOMATLI Fire Away [Mercer Street\/Downtown] Ozomatli\u2019s music has been called a collision of styles, a cultural mash-up, and a 20-car pileup of genres. It\u2019s also some of the most joyfully energetic music you\u2019ll ever hear. On its fifth album, the L.A.-based band stirs its blend of salsa, ska, samba, funk, and hip-hop in ways few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,394,70,395,393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}