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The 2005 riots in the banileue of Clichy-sous-Bois, outside of Paris, put the plight of Europe's colored colonial subjects at the forefront of global concerns for the younger generation. As Zap Mama doyenne Marie Dauline is part Belgian and part Zairan, one might expect her new project to reflect the tense climate experienced by her fellow folk of the African Diaspora.
Yet Supermoon, Daulne's follow-up to 2004's Ancestry in Progress runs on self-absorption-mirroring Zap Mama's shift from an all-femme quintet to an one-woman band. This disc operates somewhere along the hazy, toasty, kozmic continuum between Lenny Kravitz's Afronaut messianic poses and Corinne Bailey Rae's sunny Afropean, neo-soul-folk. Tasteful, Starbucks-primed "exotic" grooves are neither shaken nor stirred, even by the presence of rabble rousers Micheal Franti and Meshell Ndegeocello. Instead, Daulne focus's on vague universal uplift ("Gati")
-and on the rootsy title track, protests too much about not desiring superstar status. Only the polyrhythmic immigrant's song "Go Boy" hints at anything like disenchantment with the West. These times, though, demand more dissent from the few Africans with a global reach and less trippy navel-gazing.
By: Kandia Crazy Horse 10/01/07 >> go there
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