review: Ozo

[[Thursday night
Prospect Park
Ozomatli
$3]]

I thought we had to get there mega-early, but I was wrong. So Artis and I got there mega-early, and played frisbee and cards. That was chill. Then the gate opened maybe 40 minutes before show time. There was this guy passing by the line handing out UFPJ fliers, saying "are you coming on the 24th?". He said it as if everyone was supposed to know that he meant September 24th, when there's the big anti-war dealie in DC.

We grabbed seats right near the front. The opening band, Pacha, was very slow, uninspired, and at times put us to sleep (no, really).

By the time Ozo started, at 9pm or so, all the seats and the lawn area were completely packed, and with a pretty young crowd, although not completely young by any means.

The show itself was excelante. Newer and/or slower songs in the middle of the show were bracketed by a lot of the old crowd-pleasers -- dos cosas ciertas, misma cancion, eva, and later cumbia & como ves. 3rd album hits believe and saturday night were also crucial.

It all seemed rather similar to last time, but that was fine. At the end when they did their thing and played into the crowd, they came two rows behind us and stopped there for a while and it was super chill. Josh, of 49 home, appeared right next to us at that point. We left when it wound down a few minutes later, and the music is all still in my head..