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Music CD - Zap Mama: Supermoon
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Music CD: Supermoon
Artist: Zap Mama
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $9.95
Your Save: $ 9.03 ( 48% )
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Manufacturer: Heads Up
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Tracks:
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1. 1000 Ways
2. Hey Brotha
3. Supermoon
4. Go Boy
5. Affection
6. Toma Taboo
7. Kwenda
8. Gati
9. Where Are You?
10. Moonray
11. Princess Kesia
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0053361313227
Label: Heads Up
Manufacturer: Heads Up
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Heads Up
Release Date: 2007-08-07
Studio: Heads Up
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Grate Songs
Comment: Especially Kwenda
Supermoon
If my parents had had this in their collection back in the day when I was growing up it would have had a big impact on my musical taste. Instead of wasting 15 years of my life on composing rarely-performed and even less frequently-sold Bluegrass songs, selling tapes at dreary country festivals, and giving violin lessons to snotty nosed spoiled suburban children, I would have created dynamic African pygmy music like this.
There is no money in Bluegrass and little soul.
But in this African Pygmy Music album the songs are brimming with spiritual harmony that stirs the cli-Taurus of one's mind. (or wanker if that's your pooferenece)!
Marie Daulne's songwriting and vocals are splendid, and she is backed up wonderfully by a plethora of international talent. This album is definitely worth buying.
ciao // gurkha
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Summary: This may well be the best Zap Mama yet!
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Solid.
Comment: This is Zap Mama going strong. Not a departure from what she's done before but I wouldn't say it's more of the same. It's good with a couple of great tracks like Supermoon & Princess Kesia, where she experiments successfully with female choral elements.
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Summary: Dissapointed
Comment: I love all of my Zap Mama cd's.... except this one. I saw them live at the Fillmore in San Francisco in the '90's and they were wonderful. I also rushed out to get this as soon as I heard they had a new release but this is so... *bland* in comparison to all the others, and even a little *corny*. I was so excited and now I am sad. I miss the old Zap.
My favorites: "Adventures in Afropea" and "Am A Zone" I could (in fact I have) listen to them over and over.
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Summary: Another beautiful album by Zap Mama!
Comment: This is another amazing Zap Mama album and Marie Daulne is in great form. Zap Mama uplifts you and brings music to your soul the way only a true artist can. I love "Hey Brotha," "1000 Ways," "Go Boy," and "Moonray." Support a true artist who impacts your soul and heart by purchasing this. There's no one like her.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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