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-Billboard
Marie Daulne, founder of Zap Mama, has been a major figure in world music since the early ’90s, crunching genres from Congolese traditional to rap via what was initially an a cappella quintet. In all that time she’s never released a tighter, more immediate record than the new “Supermoon.” Daulne wrote four tunes on the album, co-authored the remaining seven songs and produced and handled the vocal chores and vocal arrangements. Drawing on the talents of Tony Allen, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tanja Saw, David Gilmore, Bashiri Johnson and Will Lee, Daulne sketches from a vivid musical palette. She reworks a song from an African children’s game (“Kwenda”), re-creating it as a funkified, beat-heavy bomb track. The title track — Daulne’s rejection of the role of superstar — is a midtempo pop song, performed with a basic quartet, while “1000 Ways” features the sort of wildly creative vocalizations that made Zap Mama famous in the first place. 08/03/07 >> go there
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