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Music Review: Zap Mama's Marie Daulne single-handedly recreates the magic on 'Supermoon'
Zap Mama is constantly exploring new identities. What started as an all-female a cappella project evolved through various personnel changes and Grammy nominations to include instrumental arrangements and more mainstream pop sensibilities and now is distilled to a one-woman collage of global sound produced by Congo-born and Belgium-bred vocalist Marie Daulne.
"Supermoon" is Zap Mama's debut on the Heads Up International label, home to Hugh Masakela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. This is "world music" in the truest sense of the word, with various languages and elements of European, American and African music melded seamlessly. Daulne weaves tightly quilted vocal harmonies using cloned choruses of her ethereal, Bjork-ish voice on tracks such as "Moonray." On "Kwenda" she re-creates that trademark Zap Mama atmosphere of a laid-back global block party, complete with crowd interaction.
The title song of the album is right on track as well. "Supermoon" is a word Daulne uses to identify people who
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Island of Spice
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Zap Mama, Marie Daulne and unbounded expression of Africa
In the mid-90s, Vusi Khumalo, one of Africa’s most accomplished percussionists, turned me on to an album that was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Vusi was one of the original South African musicians that Paul Simon collaborated with on his phenomenal breakthrough album, Graceland. Having traveled and performed with some of the world’s most talented artists, Vusi couldn’t say enough good things about a group of female artists playing in a band called Zap Mama. When he played their CD, Seven, I was enamored by a sound that was deeply African yet permeated with experimental jazz, rock, reggae and even hip hop influences, all held together by an incredible female vocal ensemble that fused rhythm and voice into something that blurred the boundaries of music, language, lyrics and beats. It was like beat boxing meets Ella Fitzgerald, Fela Kuti, Ziggy Marley and Weather Report. Truly fresh.
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Zap Mama
Belgian-Congolese Afro-pop Musician
Zap Mama is a Belgian singer-songwriter, performer, composer, lyricist, activist, video artist and ethno-vocal therapist born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raised in Belgium. Zap Mama sings polyphonic and afro-pop music, a harmonic music with a mixture of infused African vocal techniques, urban, hip hop with emphasis on voice.[1] In order to explore and discover the vast world of oral tradition music, she travels throughout Africa, learning, exchanging and sharing information about healing songs, lullabies, mourning, and practising polyphony with griots (bards), Tartit tuareg women, Dogons, Peulhs, Pygmies, Mangbetus, Zulus and others.
Zap Mama's worldwide success began with a quintet of polyphonic female singers, whose unique vocal polyphony style has inspired influences in American hip hop, nu-soul, jazz and elements of pop. Her song "Iko-iko" was featured in the film Mission: Impossible II.
Sources of Zap Mama's music
Sources of Zap Mama's music include Daulne's roots in the Democratic Republic o
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