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Kala by: M.I.a. List Price: CDN$ 13.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 10.99 You Save: CDN$3.00 (21%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0634904028121 Label: Select Distributions Manufacturer: Select Distributions Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Select Distributions Release Date: August 21, 2007 Studio: Select Distributions Sales Rank: 1887 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - m.i.aM.I.A. responds to the scrutiny and cynicism aimed at her in the past 18 months by puffing out her chest and asserting herself more strenuously than ever, half-baked agit-prop and all. In contrast to her comparatively sparkly and streamlined debut, Kala is clattering, buzzy, and sonically audacious, as well as a significant expansion of M.I.A.'s already big tent of sounds and her own work as a performer. Rating: - Now This Is NewMan, I felt so excited when I heard this album for the first time. It was like being 18 again and hearing "God Save The Queen" or "Anarchy in the UK" for the first time. My understanding of music just shifted abruptly - this is so interesting, and so provocative. I am excited by the doors opened up in this music, the hybridity of it, the contained chaotic juice of it. One of the most important records in a long time. I'm going to look where she looks, because there is something intersting there. Rating: - A good first "world music" album to getI heard MIA interviewed on the CBC radio show "Q" and I was intrigued by this woman and her background. The album was produced in a number of countries and clearly has a variety of influences that make each song interesting and unique. On several tracks the beat is infectious and the use of sound effects interwoven into the music is very clever. The sound of a rifle firing and reloading in the chorus on "paper planes" is worth the price of the album alone. You will be hearing this album on dance floors all over the world in the very near future I'm sure. We haven't heard the end of MIA. Rating:  - Coming back with power power!M.I.A. is colour, rap, dance, wild jungle rhythms and a mad fusion style. The Sri Lankan rapper blew people away with her debut album, but she's actually topped herself in "Kala" -- she takes the same ingredients as before and smashes them together into a wilder, tighter album full of deliciously wild electro-funk-rap with a world-music flair. "Road runner, road runner/Going hundred mile per hour/With your radio oooonnnnnn," she drawls detachedly over a skittering beat and the sound of racing engines. The dancey beat kicks in, as she announces, "I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga/You'll be hungry like the wolves hunting dinner dinner/And we're moving with the packs like hyena ena..." Things really blossom with the ... Read More: Rating: - An intense, body-shaking, mind-bending album.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. ... Read More: |
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