MIA Kala (2007 US 12-track vinyl double LP. The majority of the record was made when she was supposed to be taking time out and travelling. When MIA was in India, she spent weeks live recording drum patterns with local percussionists, writing newsongs, holed up in a studio used normally for Bollywood soundtracks. 'Kala' also features her first guest artists - the Nigerian rapper Afrikan Boy who rhymes on the raving 'Hussel', a group of Aborigine adolescents, The Wilcannia Mob, who appearon the didgeridoo beat of 'Mango Pickle Down River' and Timbaland who crops up on album closer 'Come Around', wonderful gatefold picture sleeve. This copy has reamined factory sealed from new & is therefore still mint & unplayed!)