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She’s matter-of-fact, answering an obvious question about the possible threads running through the high-octane fumes and sour diesel smoke of her new album KALA, which opens with the roadway rush of “Bamboo Banga”. But because this woman is an uncanny combination of street style and political substance, making music about wanting what you can’t have and trying to work with what you haven’t got – whether it’s about about world leaders or road runners or an ex-boyfriend - comes naturally. “I want to talk about men in a different way, instead of making it all about love and all that sloppiness. This isn’t a break-up album,” she says. “It’s a wake up album.”
The story of the album itself is not your average book a studio, book a producer, make the record tale. Instead, M.I.A.’s unresolved struggle to secure a long-term work visa for the United States led to her taking a far less conventional route to make second album, KALA. For undisclosed reasons, “I couldn’t get into the US so I couldn’t work with the producers I wanted to work with and make the album I was supposed to make,” she explains. “So I started traveling, just to kill time.”
M.I.A. ended up in Chennai, India, where she spent weeks live recording drum patterns with local percussionists, writing new songs like “BirdFlu” and “20 Dollar”, holed up in a studio used normally for Bollywood soundtracks. She ultimately filmed a fully-cast video for “Bird Flu” and, frustrated by the delay her not getting a visa was having on her life and career, aired it on the internet sans a commercial release to accompany it, only fuelling anticipation for her second album even further. Subsequent trips found her writing and recording in Trinidad, Jamaica, Australia, Japan and briefly in the US, where she spent a New Year’s Eve in Baltimore hanging with producer Blaqstarr before returning to the studio to make “The Turn” with him. (Read More)
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