Ancestry in Progress

by Zap Mama

Overview

On its first full-length in four years, Marie Daulne's Zap Mama project returns to Luaka Bop from a brief encounter with Narada and resumes its quest to wind African melody and vocal harmony around hip- hop, jazzy breaks, soul and Afro Cuban rhythms first explored on 7 and continued with mixed success on A Ma Zone. Produced by Daulne and Anthony Tidd, the music production was supervised by the Roots' Richard Nichols. As such, this exotic blend is earthy, steamy, full of souled-out slips and shimmers in "Bandy Bandy" with special guest Erykah Baud, and the laid-back funk of "Show Me the Way," with guests Air Thompson Bahamadia and Lady Alma. This is far more an urban recording, where urban pop and nu-soul are informed by worldbeat esthetics rather than the other way around. Take "Miss Q'N" with its late-night groove and stacked harmonies (all performed by Daulne) coming from out of the ether and weaving a tapestry of soft seductive lullaby around the lyric. "Yak," with its male chorus intoning the pronunciation ("Yah Yoa") is an intro against the whispering hi hat loop, before a huge chorus of alto and contralto voices re-frame it and Daulne's solo voice. As the hypnotic effect becomes the M.O., M.C. Intense begins rapping from his urban reality perch and throws the whole thing into overdrive. And so it goes, drifting, cutting, edging, and willowing toward some otherworldly collage that is all held together in the sheer vocal magic of Daulne's vision. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	09/14/2004
Label:	Luaka Bop / V2
UPC:	0680899005623

Tracks

1. Intro
2. Sweet Melody
3. Vivre
4. Bandy Bandy
5. Yelling Away
6. Show Me the Way
7. Follow Me
8. Miss Q'N
9. Yaku
10. Ca Varie Varie
11. Alright
12. Cache Cache
13. Le¿¿on No. 5
14. Wadidyusay?
15. Zap B¿¿b¿¿s

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Zap Mama   Primary Artist
Lady Alma   Primary Artist,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Common   Primary Artist,Rap,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Scratch   Primary Artist,Featured Artist,Beat Box
Bahamadia   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Talib Kweli   Primary Artist,Vocals,Featured Artist,Guest Artist,Vocals (Background)
Erykah Badu   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guest Artist,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Questlove   Primary Artist,Rap,Guest Artist,Featured Artist,Drums
Pablo Baptiste   Percussion,Percussion
Chris McHale   Vocals,Vocals
Marie Daulne   Vocals,Bottle,Clapping,Keyboards,Percussion,Sound Effects,Vocals (Background)
Anita Daulne   Vocals
Yvette   Vocals
Jonathan Finlayson   Horn
Dana Leong   Horn
Dizy Mandjeku   Guitar
Fredy Massamba   Vocals (Background),Vocals,Guest Artist
Tim Green   Horn
Patrick Dorcean   Drums
Tanya Saw   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Kesia Daulne Quental   Vocals
Desta Haile   Vocals
Lene Norgaard Christensen   Vocals,Clapping,Vocals (Background)
Sophie   Vocals
Larry Gold   Strings
Mike Harvey   Vocals
Anthony Tidd   Keyboards
Roman Zeitlin   Guitar,Keyboards
Nina   Vocals
Arlynn Page   Vocals
Manou NGuessan Gallo   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Aningi Bernadette   Vocals
Mfali Kouyate   Cora
Chantal Willie   Vocals
Yassin Daulne   Vocals
Coco Minyaka   Vocals

Technical Credits

Anthony Tidd   Audio Production,Mixing,Arranger,Engineer,Producer,Instrumentation
Marie Daulne   Audio Production,Sounds,Composer,Producer,Vocal Arrangement,Executive Producer
Anita Daulne   Composer
Yale Evelev   Executive Producer
Lady Alma   Composer
Jon Smeltz   Mixing
Xuly Bet   Stylist
Bernadette Aningi   Composer
The Storm   Engineer
Toya Day   Assistant
Chris McHale   Composer,Producer,Post Production
Jan DeRijk   Engineer,Pre-Production
Alessandro Canu   Illustrations
Axel Niehaus   Mixing
Bahamadia   Composer
Greg Calbi   Mastering
David Byrne   Executive Producer
Jeff Chestek   Engineer
Richard Nichols   Mixing,Music Production Supervisor
Tim Leitner   Mixing
Mel Lewis   Drum Programming
Marcellus Hall   Illustrations
Roman Zeitlin   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Philippe Allaert   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Jurgen Rogiers   Composer
Arlynn Page   Composer
Manou NGuessan Gallo   Vocal Arrangement
Gordon Goss   Engineer
Filippa Lidholm   Cover Photo