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Format: CD
Feb 2006
Record Label: Luaka Bop
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 680899003728 |
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Track Listing
1. Iko-Iko
2. W'Happy Mama
3. Call Waiting
4. Gissie
5. Songe - (with The Roots)
6. Kemake
7. Comment Ca Va?
8. Ya Solo
9. My Own Zero
10. M'Toto
11. Gbo Mata (Station)
12. 'Allo 'Allo - (with Manu Dibango)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Manu Dibango, Speech, The Roots | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Manu Dibango (vocals, saxophone); Marie Daulne (vocals, keyboards); Jean Louis Daulne (vocals, gimbri, percussion); Scratch (vocals, scratches); Tanya Saw, Franciose Vidick, Nana Akumu Wakudu, Aningi Bernadette, Anita Daulne, Manou G. Yvette, Hesia, Sabine Habongo, The Roots, Speech, This Kid Named Miles (vocals); Dizzy Mandjeku (guitar); Bilou Doneux (gimbri, percussion); Jean-Pierre Catoul, Carole Duteille (violin); Edouard Thiese (viola); Pierre Michaud (cello); Hans Francken (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Jan De Ryck, Anthony Tidd, Patrick Nuisser (keyboards); Manou N'Guessan Gallo, Nicholas Thys (bass); Ahmir Thompson, Stephane Galland (drums); DJ Grazhoppa (scratches).
Producers: Marie Daulne, Richard Nichols, Yannik Fonderie.
So strange, so funky, so millennial is the colorful creature called Zap Mama. The hip ladies of this vocal-based group have continued to expand on their once-spare accompaniment of the past, with all sorts of electronic bleeps and bloops, funky guitars and organs, and generous stretches of Saturday-night-on-the-drag bass lines. Postmodern a capella-world beat hip-hop, anyone? Here, urban grit and rural African dreamscapes churn together in a sonic texture that looks to the past and future in a single gaze.
Direct from Planet Polyglot, the lyrics are sung seamlessly in English, French and African dialects, taking these tunes to places cosmopolitan and beyond. The slow-burning "Rafiki" features guest raps by the Roots, Fender-Rhodes piano snatches, and a wild melody sung through a flute. "Call Waiting" features Marie Daulne's haunting voice set to light drum-and-bass and the brisk, striking sound of pizzicato violins and an acoustic bass. If the boys of Massive Attack were to grab some djembes and African folk records, hang out with Angelique Kidjo and smile (much) more, the result might sound something like this.
Industry Reviews
...On the brilliant A MA ZONE, this renowned female sextant....continues to take its musical approach even further into the urban jungle....This true must-hear has finally brought the beat box into the brave new world.
CMJ (10/18/1999)
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