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Mardi Gras Song #5  "I Luv Me Sum Mardi Gras"

Sung by, The Nu Jazz Orda

Recorded 2004  Mardi Gras Records Studios 1013-A Harimaw Ct.  West, Metairie,  Louisiana 70001

Arden-Lo is about as un-assuming a man as you could run across in New Orleans, LA. Since Katrina , he has been living in Nashville, Tenn., like the rest of us, waiting to come home again!

During the 2005 Mardi Gras, Arden burst on the scene at the NOMTOC ball that season and this year on to the charts with two cuts from his 2005 Album. That Album entitled "Tha Nu Jaz Orda" subtitled, "Second Line Hip Hop" wasn't really a serious project for Arden-Lo and his cousin BIFF. In fact says Lo, It really was an experiment to see if I could simply blend Hip Hop and Mardi Gras favorites and produce something that people would like and purchase. 

In the absence of Brass bands in New Orleans this season and the always under utilized Main Line groups, the tune has done sort of a bursting on the scene of it's own. Since Katrina, the clutter and the traditionist aren't guarding the radio waves like they normally do, the result has been,  this tune sort of just slipped through. 

Mardi Gras Digest couldn't put up the tune without the performer's permission because it's not in clear domain as of yet, and it was recently recorded within the last 3 years. What surprised us,  when we looked all this up, was the willingness of some performers including Mr. Lo to release their product on the net, so people can hear it. 

It's not the Brass band sound that most New Orleanians are used too, and there in may be the appeal. We heard this song at the NOMTOC reception area during the year the club invited Mr. Lo to sit and review the Jugs parade, and we fell in love with it, buying a copy right there.

This fusion of Hip Hop and Jazz along with the re-invention of the Mardi Gras Genre could be what the sector has been waiting for a long time. However, a word of warning to the artists out there. There is such a thing as to much,.......I like original music, written in good taste and with style, panache. Don't grab the traditional music and take this as a signal to start remixing the classics. You will fail!

Meanwhile let's enjoy a true artists that apparently, has to be told,  he has to continue this road on which he travels, for now, alone!