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Music CD - Kala
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Music CD: Kala
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $6.07
Your Save: $ 3.91 ( 39% )
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Manufacturer: Interscope Records
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Tracks:
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1. Bamboo Banga
2. Birdflu
3. Boyz
4. Jimmy
5. Hussel
6. Mango Pickle Down River
7. 20 Dollar
8. World Town
9. The Turn
10. XR2
11. Paper Planes
12. Come Around
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517425651
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Interscope Records
Release Date: 2007-08-21
Studio: Interscope Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Slick!
Comment: This artist is from Sri Lanka, and she's got a serious groove! Interesting twists with her beats, but nothing complex. Very catchy, but lyrics are real. Good imagery, good flow, uses diverse instruments. Definitive! A good buy!
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Summary: M.I.A is the Future
Comment: From the minute I heard Galang I knew I had touched upon something groundbreaking, fresh, and inspiring. Kala is a sleeker more polished extension of the genius M.I.A displays on Arular.
I get mixed reviews when I share this music with people...people either love it or hate it. I believe the people that hate it so vehemently or don't get it can't easily put it into a category and therefore dismiss it. Some of the ignorance about M.I.A on this board confuses me. Her success can't all be attributed to "great production" as she produced most of her first album in her bedroom!! Also, she is an incredible lyricist and poet who uses repetition, abstract images, and mixes nonsense with meaning quite eloquently. A lot of negative reviews on this board tend to be full of empty criticality - "i don't get it" or "it's repetitive" or "she's not good". A third grader could write something more personally reflective and soulful. Don't hate on M.I.A just because you don't care for her - we should be respecting young people who are willing to cross-genres and break boundaries...it takes a lot of courage!
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Summary: 1 hit wonder???
Comment: Hi, this cd was ok. I listened to a few songs on a friends copy and thought it was worth purchasing. Plus i love that trendy song thats she has a video for or whatever.
All in all there are 2 songs i really like, 1 that is ok. I dont even remember there names. and the rest is too techno, electronic, repedative for me.
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Summary: An intense, body-shaking, mind-bending album.
Comment: Over a few years, British musician MIA - aka Mathangi Arulpragasam - has realised far-flung ambitions.
Her 2005 debut album "Arular" proved an electric shock to the system, its ballsy mashup of street styles and pop hooks earning a Mercury nomination in U.K.
Mia's new album "Kala" is named after her mother, but like "Arular" it mixes up musical ideas from around the world and crams them into a club- and radio-friendly collage of tunes.
This CD drives her music in even more intrepid directions
In fact this time, rather than work with British producers such as Steve Mackey of Pulp and the pop guru Richard X, MIA travelled widely to authentically capture the world music that intrigues her.
The result is fantastic.
"Birdflu" features the sound of traditional Indian drummers, whom MIA recorded on a trip to the sub-continent last year.
"Down River" throbs with didgeridoo she recorded at a workshop for aboriginal children in Australia. The tribal pound of "Hussel", meanwhile, was recorded with a Nigerian-born London-based rapper, African Boy.
Whereas "Arular" was dominated by bouncy funk carioca beats, "Kala" feels like a more mixed, cosmopolitan affair.Recorded in India, Australia, Trinidad, Japan, Britain and Baltimore with producers including Switch and Blaqstarr, it sounds like an infectious international travelogue.
Looking at that luminous, vibrant front cover, or the ludicrously colourful video for "Boyz", M.I.A. seems more like a textile artist than anything else.
If the driving force behind her music is a restless, globe-trotting quest for identity, that makes sense - a collage is a beautiful way of drawing disparate pieces together to create a whole that exists as something important in itself.
"Kala" meets the critics head on, taking her dancefloor smash-and-grab sound global.
She twangs the boundaries of taste both lyrically ("Take me on a genocide tour/Take me on a trip to Darfur") and musically. But a knockout's a knockout, however messy the bout.
All in all, Kala is an intense, body-shaking, mind-bending album, far more ambitious than most pop around.
My favourite tracks are "Paper Planes", "20 Dollars" and "Turn".
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Summary: Man who Knew?
Comment: Mia's beats are good reminiscent of the 1980's and early 1990's is diffidently apart of the "Look at Me" generation thank goodness she has something worth listening to.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Maya Arulpragasam, the British-based daughter of Sri Lankan refugees, delivered one of 2005's eye-popping debuts, Arular. For an album that proudly flaunted tin-can production, indecipherable South London slang, and lyrical nods to suicide bombers, it brought the woman who records under the name M.I.A. unexpected mainstream success--she followed its release by touring North America with Gwen Stefani and recording with Missy Elliott and Timbaland, while the single "Galang" made its way into a car commercial. Kala (the first release was named after her freedom-fighting father, this one after her mother) throws Arulpragasam's newfound pop credentials into the bustle of Bollywood rhythms, police sirens, 8-bit dancehall beats, Third World car horns, and street singers. Recorded across several continents, it presents a far more dynamic listening experience than her first album, especially with tracks like "Bamboo Banga," "Jimmy," and "Paper Planes." It's no less exhausting, though. What with the New Order sample, Timbaland cameo, and gunshot sound effects, there isn't a moment when it doesn't feel like you've unintentionally invited an entire carnival into your home. --Aidin Vaziri
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