Fire Away

VINYL FORMAT. Fire Away is Ozomatli's fifth studio full length and features eleven new Ozo songs, including the first single "It's Only Paper." Ozomatli's music - a collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga - has long followed a key mantra: it will take you around the world by taking you around the city of LA. This certainly resonated with acclaimed producer Tony Berg (Aimee Mann, Pete Yorn), who describes working with Ozomatli "like visiting seven continents simultaneously." Berg believes the Fire Away sessions "captured the spirit of the band's live show without being a live album," and he sensed Ozomatli stretching themselves in the studio; adding "each of the members had grown as a writer and as a musician. I think Fire Away reflects their true songwriting talents - everyone's point-of-view was captured. That is the spirit of Ozomatli. They're pan-cultural, and they somehow manage to be raucous and thoughtful at the same time."