Reception

Track listing

1. "Believe" (Andy Mendoza, Ozomatli
   Ozomatli
   Ozomatli is a seven to ten piece band playing primarily Latin, hip hop, and rock music, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. They are known both for their vocal activist viewpoints and their wide array of musical styles - including salsa, jazz, funk, reggae, rap, and others.In a 2007 NPR interview, band...
   
   , J. Smith-Freeman) – 5:02
2. "Love & Hope" (JB Eckl, Ozomatli, K. C. Porter
   K. C. Porter
   KC Porter is an American record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. For nearly three decades in the entertainment industry, Porter has earned numerous Grammy nominations and 3 Grammys and Latin Grammys...
   
   ) – 4:24
3. "Street Signs" (Ozomatli, Smith-Freeman) – 3:45
4. "(Who Discovered) America?" (Eckl, Porter, Jason Roberts
   Jason Roberts (producer)
   Jason Roberts is a producer, engineer, mixer represented by Tsunami Producer Management working with popular acts such as Cypress Hill, Ozomatli...
   
   , Asdru Sierra) – 4:35
5. "Who's to Blame" (Don Corleon, Daniel Lewis) – 3:13
6. "Te Estoy Buscando" (Ozomatli) – 3:50
7. "Saturday Night" (Ozomatli, Smith-Freeman) – 3:59
8. "Déjame en Paz" (Ozomatli) – 3:29
9. "Santiago" (Ozomatli) – 5:10
10. "Ya Viene el Sol (The Beatle Bob Remix)" (Ozomatli) – 3:39
11. "Doña Isabelle" (Ozomatli, Eddie Palmieri
    Eddie Palmieri
    Eddie Palmieri , is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.-Early years:...
    
    ) – 1:05
12. "Nadie Te Tira" (Ozomatli) – 4:47
13. "Cuando Canto" (Ozomatli) – 4:40

14. "Como Canto (Live)"

Personnel

• Wil-Dog Abers
  Wil-Dog Abers
  Willy "Wil-Dog" Abers is a bassist primarily for the LA-based Ozomatli band, but has also played in Los Super Seven, a Latin rock supergroup.- Early life :...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , orchestral arrangement, percussion arrangement, vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Ulises Bella – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , melodica
  Melodica
  The melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...
  
  , requinto
  Requinto
  The term requinto is used in both Spanish and Portuguese to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are requinto guitars, drums, and several wind instruments.-Wind instruments:...
  
  , vocals
• Sheffer Bruton – trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Mario Calire
  Mario Calire
  Mario Calire was a drummer for American rock band The Wallflowers. He is currently a drummer for Ozomatli.Mario Calire's experience with drums goes back as far as he can remember. He grew up surrounded by music and credits his saxophone- and piano-playing father, Jimmy Calire, for teaching him the...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• DJ Spinobi – turntables
  Phonograph
  The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...
  
  
• Jabu – rap
  Rapping
  Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
  
  
• Raúl Pacheco – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , jarana, tres
  Tres
  The tres is a 3-course, 6-string chordophone which was created in Cuba. A tres player is called a tresero in Cuba and a tresista in Puerto Rico.-Cuban tres:In Cuba, the son was created as a song and a salon dance genre...
  
  , vocals
• Justin Porée – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , rap, remixing
• Asdru Sierra – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , vocals
• Jiro Yamaguchi – percussion, tabla
  Tabla
  The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
  
  , orchestral arrangement, percussion arrangement, vocals

• Beatle Bob
  Beatle Bob
  Beatle Bob is a well-known figure in the St. Louis, Missouri music scene. He has been seen doing his characteristic dancing at a wide range of concerts including Ani DiFranco, Less Than Jake and Chuck Berry, both in the crowd and onstage with the performers...
  
   – introduction on "Ya Viene el Sol (The Beatle Bob Remix)"
• Chali 2na
  Chali 2na
  Charles Stewart , better known as Chali 2na is an American rapper and hip hop artist, formerly associated with the groups Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli.-Early life:...
  
   – rap on "Who's to Blame"
• Cut Chemist
  Cut Chemist
  Lucas MacFadden , better known as Cut Chemist, is an American DJ and record producer. He is a former member of the funk Latin band Ozomatli, and of hip hop group Jurassic 5...
  
   – turntables
• Forte Music City of Prague Orchestra – strings
  Strings (music)
  A string is the vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments, such as the guitar, harp, piano, and members of the violin family. Strings are lengths of a flexible material kept under tension so that they may vibrate freely, but controllably. Strings may be "plain"...
  
   on "Believe"
• Hassan Hakmoun
  Hassan Hakmoun
  Hassan Hakmoun is a Los Angeles-based Moroccan Gnawa musician.-Early life:Hakmoun was born to a family of musicians who introduced him to the musical world of the Gnawa. By age four, he performed alongside snake charmers and fire-breathers on Marrakech streets. His mother is known throughout the...
  
   – vocals on "Believe"
• David Hidalgo
  David Hidalgo
  David Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. He is also a member of the supergroup Los Super Seven and of the Latin Playboys, a side project band made up of some of the members of Los Lobos...
  
   – arpa jarocha
  Arpa jarocha
  The arpa jarocha is a harp from Veracruz, Mexico, used in conjunto jarocho music.It is a wooden harp with 32-36 strings tuned diatonically over five octaves. The performer plays a bass line on the low strings with one hand and with the other supplies arpeggiated melodies on the higher strings...
  
  , requinto
• Paul Livingstone
  Paul Livingstone
  Paul Livingstone is an American sitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the few American disciples of Pt. Ravi Shankar, also trained under Rajeev Taranath and Amiya Dasgupta all of the Senia Maihar Gharana.-Career:...
  
   – sitar
  Sitar
  The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
  
  
• Walter Miranda – piano
• Eddie Palmieri
  Eddie Palmieri
  Eddie Palmieri , is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.-Early years:...
  
   – piano on "Doña Isabelle" and "Nadie Te Tira"
• Greg Poree – acoustic guitar
  Steel-string acoustic guitar
  A steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...
  
  
• K. C. Porter
  K. C. Porter
  KC Porter is an American record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. For nearly three decades in the entertainment industry, Porter has earned numerous Grammy nominations and 3 Grammys and Latin Grammys...
  
   – Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
  
• Les Yeux Noirs
  Les Yeux Noirs
  Les Yeux Noirs is the name of a French band combining elements of jazz manouche and other Romani music, Yiddish and Klezmer music. The group was founded by two brothers, Eric and Olivier Slabiak, who both play violin...
  
   – strings on "Believe" and "Love & Hope"

• John Burk – executive producer, A&R
• Robert Carranza – engineer
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
  
• Chali 2na – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Don Corleon – producer
• Chris Dunn – A&R
• Chris Gehringer – mastering engineer
  Mastering engineer
  A mastering engineer is one skilled in the practice of taking audio that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distribution, whether by physical media such as a CD, vinyl record, or as some method of...
  
  
• Serban Ghenea
  Serban Ghenea
  Serban Ghenea is a four-time Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy Award-winning mixer. He has mixed songs for such artists as Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Jewel, Santana, Ozomatli, Shakira, Jill Scott, R. Kelly, Rod Stewart, and Dave Matthews Band...
  
   – mixing engineer
  Mixing engineer
  A mix engineer is the person responsible for incorporating all the different recorded elements of music to make the final version of a song. These mixing professionals have many years of experience and training with audio equipment which has enabled them to master the art of audio mixing...
  
  , remixing
• John Hanes – digital audio editor
  Digital audio editor
  A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.-For use with music:...
  
  , remixing
• Mary Hogan – A&R
• Christian Lantry – photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  
• Christopher Lennertz – orchestral arrangement
• Daniel "Blaxxx" Lewis – producer
• Bob O'Connor – A&R
• Ozomatli – producer, engineer, remixing
• K. C. Porter – producer
• Seth Presant – engineer
• Anton Pukshansky – Engineer
• Jason Roberts
  Jason Roberts (producer)
  Jason Roberts is a producer, engineer, mixer represented by Tsunami Producer Management working with popular acts such as Cypress Hill, Ozomatli...
  
   – programming
  Programming (music)
  Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
  
  , producer
• Tim Roberts – assistant
• Bob Salcedo – engineer
• T-Ray
  Todd Ray
  Todd Ray is an American music producer.-Biography:Born and raised in Lancaster, South Carolina, Grammy Award-winning music producer Todd Ray 's career has logged a lengthy discography, which includes artists Jack Johnson, Nas, Mick Jagger, House of Pain, The Beastie Boys, G...
  
   – producer
• Ken Takahashi – engineer

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