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Last week Ozomatli released their new full length album Fire Away. Fire Away is the three time Grammy Award-winning band's fifth studio full length, and first for the NYC based Mercer Street Records/Downtown Records. Produced by acclaimed producer Tony Berg, Fire Away features eleven new Ozo songs (full track listing below), including the first single “It's Only Paper," currently serviced to radio.
Fire Away is arguably Ozomatli's most diverse album yet, ranging from the emotionally resplendent ballads “It's Only Time" and “Love Comes Down," the '60s Stax influenced vibe of “45," to the Spanglish of “Nadas Por Free."
“Malagasy Shock" recounts singer and guitarist Raul Pacheco's harrowing near death experience, electrocuted onstage in front of thousands of people during the band's recent State Department trip to Madagascar. Pacheco offers, “Sometimes you are shocked into realizing life must be lived with a profoundly energetic fervor." He pauses, then adds, “...and sometimes you are just actually shocked!"
2010 looks to continue Ozomatli's feverish pace. In addition to taking their incendiary live show on the road in support of Fire Away, the band recently performed two shows at the SXSW Festival in Austin, will be collaborating with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as well as the Boston Pops Orchestra for the 125th Pops Anniversary Celebration in early May, and once again serving as U.S. Cultural Ambassadors with a State Department trip to China and Mongolia (full details forthcoming).
Fire Away Track Listing:
1. “Are You Ready?"
2. “45"
3. “It's Only Paper"
4. “Elysian Persuasion"
5. “Gay Vatos In Love"
6. “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"
7. “It's Only Time"
8. “Nadas Por Free"
9. “Malagasy Shock"
10. “Love Comes Down"
11. “Caballito"
