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...make of Ozomatli’s second album, Embrace the Chaos. The musicianship is great, and there is no shortage of personnel or good ideas (the album has at least five guest artists). Kicking off with the rollicking horn-driven “Pá Lante,” Ozo come rolling out with infectious energy. The track is almost surprisingly straight up, given the mix ’n match ethic of the rest of the album: There are no guests, and no breaks into turntable spins or hip-hop mode—just the euphoric, impossibly upbeat vibe...
...passport-needed, pan-global style is the groovy “1234,” on which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section has to rein in their polyrhythmic tendencies a little, but the momentum is great. At times Ozo sound, to their credit, a bit like a sublimely rejuvenated and bass-heavy Buena Vista Social Club, with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like “Guerrillero.” Which makes Kanetic Source’s rap in the middle...
...rectangular box about three inches by two inches by one, colored orange-in honor of the House of Orange. Each bore the letters V (for Victory) and W (for Wilhelmina). Inside each box were 20 little white cylinders-cigarets made of tobacco from The Netherlands Indies and marked OZO (for Oranje Zal Overwinnen -Orange Will Triumph). Their hoped-for delayed action: sabotage, resistance, violence against the Nazis...
Okey Dickey, Buey, who hasn't missed yet, cuts the Card--ozo Manning times and says Harvard 47-Virginia ZERO; Cornell 14, Dartmouth 13; Yale 20-Princeton 14. Armen...
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