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Ozomatli Review
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Ozomatli deserve to be the biggest band in the world. Fact. As a group with over twelve members they are at least trying to make a stab at having the biggest line up around with a barrage of instruments and vocalists. If anyone on site thought they knew a thing or two about partying Ozomatli - the most appropriately skilled act for closing the jazz stage - were here to give a masterclass in musical headonism. Despite the potential for a group so diverse and so large to veer out of control, this never a possiblity as these boys were born to be on stage lifting the crowd to an new plain of pleasure. Bouncing around the stage be it the bass player or guitarist or
one of their many horn players or percussionists these guys priority is to destroy musical genres - swapping styles with speed - so fast and so tight your head spins. The myriad of influences fly by with Latin horn stabs punctuating thrash funk and ska while crazy ass rap and New Orleans jazz blend like rum and pinapple, coffee and cream. Widing the crowd up like a slingshot and letting them go Ozomatli defy all convention or catagorisation, teetering on the edge of the barriers, desperate to embrace the rabid front row. So it came as no surprise on the final tune that one dredlocked band member sped to the edge to stage dive into the mele greeted with a joyous roar. As is tradition on these kind of occasions Ozomatli are simply unstoppable, no stage has been built that can contain them, the boys
jump in to the pit at the front and head in to the crowd beating out a batacada so infectious they are working on a cure as we speak. Ending a blistering weekends music with this life affirming ensemble, summed up a weekend full of wildly different sounds. Beating their drums in the heart of the crowd Ozomatli head in to the night leaving us breatheless, bewildered and naturally high on music - this was a simply incredible weekends music, one that Ozomatli sealed with a smoking set.
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