Zap Mama - Supermoon
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Artist: Zap MamaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Music Label: Heads Up
Soundtracks:
- 1000 Ways
- Hey Brotha
- Supermoon
- Go Boy
- Affection
- Toma Taboo
- Kwenda
- Gati
- Where Are You?
- Moonray
- Princess Kesia
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Free Music Review: This may well be the best Zap Mama yet!
Hit: 5 Stars
Marie Daulne, creator and driving force of the musical entity known as Zap Mama, has been recording and performing music for over 15 years. Born in the Congo to an African mother and Belgian father and raised primarily in Belgium, Daulne embodies the Afro-European energy of Zap Mama's musical creations. In a recent press release she recalls, "My early childhood was filled with the music of my mother, the music of the Congo... when I was growing up in Belgium... we heard a lot of French music [on the radio]. And of course, American music was also very popular all over Europe."
In her late teens Daulne made a pilgrimage back to the Congo and decided to become a musician. "...I was standing in the middle of the forest, hearing the music that had been a part of my earliest memories, and it was like an illumination, like a light." In 1990 the first incarnation of Zap Mama was born and Afropea reached #1 on the Billboard World Music Charts.
Dualne's highly personal sixth album Supermoon is her response to our cultural obsession with superstars. "I say let's be ourselves, and let's create a word for what it means to be ourselves. A 'supermoon' is a unique person. You can be a supermoon if you follow your own desires and pursue the things that you were born to do. To be a supermoon is to be true to yourself and others."
As opposed to her earlier work where Dualne brought together other women to sing with her, this album is all about Dualne. Written and vocalized by Dualne herself, each song in "Supermoon" helps weave a tapestry of musical styles, cultures, and in the end the artist herself. "I'm opening a door to who I am," says Dualne. Dipping as always into many styles including Afropop, American R&B, reggae, hip-hop, and funk along with a slew of top drawer musicians such as Me'shell N'degeocello, Tony Allen, and David Gilmore (who each pop in for exactly one song), Daulne offers an astonishing array of world music.
Who else can borrow James Brown's famous guitar riff from "Payback" and turn African pygmy music into the club anthem of "Gati" without missing a beat? She tells us stories of African immigrants, of human relationships, of schoolyard games and rivalries. And in the end she tells us about ourselves. Intricate vocals, polyrhythmic beats, and deeply moving stories to tell. This may well be the best Zap Mama yet!
Supermoon Poster
There's an alluring place where the mystique of the African continent meets the complexity of the Western world. It's a place where rhythm and beauty, myth and melody, history and harmony converge. It's a place where anything is possible. For more than 15 years, the musical entity known as Zap Mama has stood at that crossroads. Born in the Congo to an African mother and Belgian father, harbored by pygmies in the forest in the midst of revolution, and raised in the predominantly French culture of Belgium, vocalist and founder Marie Daulne is not only a living map of the world, but a purveyor of its rich stories and an ambassador to all of its diverse cultures. A brilliant songwriter and performer, she distills and reflects creative energy from an infinite array of sources and beams it back to the world with a brilliance that is unsurpassed.A sprawling example of "world groove," Zap Mama's sixth album is further proof that in these interconnected times the musical world really is shrinking. Born in the Congo and raised in the French culture of Belgium, Zap Mama founder and driving force Marie Daulne has always ignored the barriers between musical genres like so many outdated speed limits on a dusty highway, but on Supermoon she dips into so many styles--Afropop, R&B, hip-hop, funk--as to reduce those barriers to a delightful irrelevancy. Helped by a smorgasbord of big-name collaborators--Me'shell N'degeocello, Tony Allen, and Spearhead's Michael Franti all guest for one track each--Daulne turns African pygmy music into a rollicking club anthem on "Gati," borrows James Brown's "Payback" guitar riff on "Toma Taboo," uses the intricate polyrhythmic arrangement of "Go Boy" for a touching tale of an African immigrant, and evokes modern soul singers like Macy Gray on the title track. Through it all, the intricate vocal arrangements and production that are Zap Mama's trademark--performed largely by Daulne herself--never fail to astonish. --Ezra Gale
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