Ozomatli
Fire Away

The septet from Los Angles known as Ozomatli creates suchengaging and energetic shows, studio albums can be anti-climatic. Fortunately, their fifth p...

Sprawling LA collective Ozomatli return with ‘Fire Away’, their fifth full-length to date, and offer another rich dose of positive energy and musical ...

An album that promises endless fusions of cumbia, reggae, Western RnB and countless other genres doesn’t initially fill the discerning consumer with t...

Released during Ozomatli’s 15th anniversary year, Fire Away is, on the surface, an uproarious and celebratory album. The riot is goin’ on early (“Are ...

For over a decade, Ozomatli’s genre-defying music has either delighted or befuddled, with every recorded moment seemingly designed for maximum crowd e...

In a nation where political, economic and social angst all too frequently butt up against the apathetic sentiments of its citizens, bands with somethi...

My previous experience with Ozomatli has been, shall we say, noisy. One of my first concert experiences many years ago was watching the large, half-do...

When Ozomatli first appeared in the mid-‘90s, its masterfulmix of Latin, African-American, Indian, Afro-Cuban, ska and punk musics soundedso fresh it ...

Not many L.A. bands can boast of having a piece of thecalendar named in their honor. But April 23 wasrecently designated by the city as Ozomatli Day t...

If Lennon, Marley and Bono proved politics belongs in music, Los Angeles' Ozomatli shows what music can do for politics. The band—a seven-piece intern...