Ozomatli Saturday Night Rehearsal

Presented by Sound Tracks

This is a glimpse of Ozomatli rehearsing a performance piece called "At the Edge of Urban Identity." It's a kind of history of the band, a ballad of Ozomatli, narrated by their friend Josh Kun, who they call "our resident smart guy," maybe because when he's not fronting Ozomatli he teaches music journalism at USC in downtown L.A.

This excerpt opens the performance with Josh explaining the origins of Ozomatli's name and presenting the band's vision of our times: "There will be pain but there will be music to ease it; injustice will be survived by protest." This "new gospel of the monkey" ends with a funky riot of music, "If there's gonna be a revolution, let it begin on a Saturday night."

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Music

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• Uli Bella
• Jiro Yamaguchi
• Asdru Sierra
• Mario Caliente
• Raul Pacheco
• Justin Poree
• Josh Kun
• PBS
• Sound Tracks