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Kala

~ M.I.a. (Electronica) (Artist)

4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product Details

Audio CD (Aug 24 2007)
Original Release Date: Aug 20 2007
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Select Distributions
ASIN: B000T7QX78
In-Print Editions: Audio CD | LP Record

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer 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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M.I.A. is UK singer/rapper Maya Arulpragasam. Her 2005 debut album Arular unleashed her devastating dislocated beats, pounding basslines and chant-along vocals. M.I.A.'s unparalleled mongrel mix of hip-hop, ragga, dancehall, electro and punk saw Arular garner praise from far and wide, including being short listed for the Mercury Music Prize. In the USA M.I.A. signed with Interscope and hit the road opening for Gwen Stefani. M.I.A. is now set to release her second studio album, Kala. Amazing talent join forces with her on the new album, including Diplo, Timbaland, DJ Blaqstarr, Three 6 Mafia and producer, Switch.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An intense, body-shaking, mind-bending album., Aug 25 2007

By	George Jorge (London , UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good first "world music" album to get, Sep 16 2007

By	I. Dobson "Free thinker" (Thunder Bay, Ont) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

I 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars m.i.a, Jan 18 2008

By	T. Bigney (Nova Scotia, canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

M.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.

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