Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress
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Artist: Zap MamaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: Luaka Bop
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- Sweet Melody
- Vivre
- Bandy Bandy featuring Erykah Badu
- Yelling Away featuring Talib Kweli, Common and "?uestlove"
- Show Me the Way featuring Bahamadia, Lady Alma and "?uestlove"
- Follow Me
- Miss Q?N
- Yaku
- Ca Varie Varie
- Alright
- Cache Cache
- LeÇon nº 5
- Wadidyusay? featuring Scratch
- Zap Bébés
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Free Music Review: All the Funk Without the Filth
Hit: 5 Stars
It's been a long dry spell since Amazone and this is worth the wait. The album is clearly a follow-up to Amazone, yet the style is refined a little more, so it is not simply Amazone II, the Sequel.
Each composition here is like a little window opening on a slice of life. The blending of the languages brings home, yet again, the universality of music. There are differences between peoples, but this difference is something to share and enjoy, not to separate us into disparate spaces. Whatever your background, you can feel a part of the scenes presented.
The spoken words take me back to the beginning of what is now called rap, to true street corner poetry. Unlike most of today's rap, there are no words you don't want young kids to hear. Instead of degrading women and reducing them to objects to be abused, we are instead reminded that "She is someone's daughter" and to be revered as she is made of "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water". No malice, no hatred, only love of the highest order. Pure poetry, not gutter rap.
The vocals are perfectly blended and the harmonies are tight. These women blend together a vocal synergy that must be heard to be experienced. The rhythms, capable of standing alone, reinforce the musical magic woven into the tapestry of their sound.
If you truly believe we are one people spread across a small planet, this album will speak to your soul. If you've never been exposed to music like this, you'll be amazed. If you're already a fan of Zap Mama, you won't be disappointed.
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The initial run of "Ancestry in Progress" will feature a bonus disc with four exclusive tracks!Longtime Zap Mama fans may take issue with the direction Marie Daulne has taken the band. After starting out as a women?s a capella group, Daulne started integrating instruments, rappers and programming on Seven, taking it even further on A Ma Zone. Now on Ancestry In Progress, the first ZM album in five years, it's Daulne with help from the Roots, Common, Erykah Badu, Taleb Kweli and others from the hip-hop and R&B community. Nonetheless, the band was always Daulne's, and she's in complete command here again. You still get to wonder at her ability to create weird vocal sounds. Her high raspy cat-like voice is as playful and rhythmic as ever, and her sense of harmony stills draws upon her African roots even if she chooses to put samples over the top. No doubt "Sweet Melody" is one of Daulne's catchiest songs, but other standouts include "Vivre" and "Bandy Bandy." Instead of the African jungle we get the urban jungle, but it's still beautiful music. ?-Tad Hendrickson
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