Urban Ethnic Music from Brussels. When you first hear that, it sounds something of a contradiction, but since Marie Daulne gathered a number of slightly eccentric friends around her in 1990, nobody finds it strange any more. And there are reasons for that. Since then, Zap Mama has toured Europe,...
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Urban Ethnic Music from Brussels. When you first hear that, it sounds something of a contradiction, but since Marie Daulne gathered a number of slightly eccentric friends around her in 1990, nobody finds it strange any more. And there are reasons for that. Since then, Zap Mama has toured Europe, Africa and the United States, and everywhere they have gone, the audience has fallen for the eclectic mixture of styles somewhere between soul, gospel, pygmy song and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
With the help of gestures and an inexhaustibte imagination, the five acrobatic female voices take the audience on a wondrous world joumey, pausing for a moment to visit a Congolese souk, and then a few moments later, soaring on a flying carpet above the Taj Mahal. The colourfully attired ladies sprinkle the whole performance with a substantial dose of joie de vivre and a disarming sense of humour.
Unearthly harmonies born of Pygmy song, Moroccan chants and exhuberant scat made Zap Mama global a cappella queens. Now for the first time they meet the roots throb of bass and drums, shot through with equal parts highlife and hip-hop. Zap Mama is soul music for the diaspora. "If your ears are open," mama Zap Marie Daulne says, "you'll understand."
And now for the new alburn A Ma Zone which is, in turns, joyful, melancholic and exuberant with Marie pulling off an amazing balancing trick, treading a fine line between the soul of the past and the technology of the future. The title A Ma Zone is much rnore than a play on words, because the meanings Marie attributes to it offer a perfect summary of what the songs are about.
"Naturally an Amazon is a rebel, a fighter who, once she has set her heart on something, pulls out all the stops to achieve her goal. I feel this way as well when I'm standing on the stage with the group.- as a team we share the same aim of winning over the audience with our music. Above all, A Ma Zone ("In My Zone"), means that I feel at ease wherever I am. I'm a nomad. I?m meeting new people all the time and sealing these friendships with tunes".
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