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Performer: Zap Mama
Artist: Tony Allen; Me'Shell NdegeOcello; David Gilmore; Michael Franti
Engineer: LUC WEYTJENS; Marie Daulne; Mark Harder; Dave Rivera; Bob Huott; Dan Lanksman; Johan Breton; Anthony Tidd
Producer: LUC WEYTJENS; Marie Daulne; Jack Splash; Chris McHale; Anthony Tidd
Distributor: Fontana Distribution

Notes: Zap Mama: Marie Daulne (background vocals). Personnel: Kyle McHale, Shay McHale, Jeff Lodin, Frank Simms, Arno, Chris McHale (vocals); Pelembir Dieudonne, Yannick Werther, David Gilmore, Marc Shulman, Michael Franti (guitar); Dizzy Mandejeku, Philippe Allaert (electric guitar); Alex Waterman (cello); Zulema Hechavarria Blanco (flute); Milciades Teixeira (accordion); Lenny Pickett (alto saxophone); Michael Leonhart (trumpet); Leon Pendarvis, Robbie Kondor (piano); LUC WEYTJENS (keyboard); Dave Samuels (vibraphone); Keletigui Diabate (balafon); Anthony Guarnier (electric bass); Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Anthony Tidd, Will Lee, Francis Mbappe (bass guitar); Tony Allen , Shawn Pelton, Damien Smith (drums); Gauthier Lisein, Kobe Proesmans, Fredy Massamba, Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Choir Jeunes De La Monnaie, Frabrizio Cassol (unknown instrument); DJ Nanga Yassine Dauine, Stef Caers, Ida Nielsen, Keisa Daulne Quental, Lene Norgaard Christensen, Tanja Saw, Chantal Willie, Mike Harvey, Papi (background vocals). Recording information: McHale, New York, NY. Congo-born, Belgium-raised and Paris-based, Zap Mama singer Marie Daulne is the worldbeat aesthetic personified. SUPERMOON combines African, pop, dance, and funk influences into a uniquely appealing form of pan-global rock & roll that appeals to the head and the hips simultaneously. Highlights include the slinky "Toma Taboo" and the hypnotically cross-rhythmic arrangement of the haunting "Go Boy." Guests include the Good the Bad and the Queen's Tony Allen and American R&B star Me'shell N'degeocello.

Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "For culture vultures, it's an international feast.....A winning lazy-afternoon soundtrack." -- Grade: B+ JazzTimes (p.95) - "[The] lyrics, most written in English and all drawn from Daune's vivid life experiences...are bold, brave and powerfully life affirming."

Formed in the early 1990s by Marie Daulne, who was born in Zaire and raised in Europe, Zap Mama is a (mostly) a cappella group of female singers whose voices blend Christian choral music, Afropop, Pygmy vocalizations, and vocal percussion, and have inspired countless musicians. Zap Mama has sometimes worked with instrumentation, but the group's voices are equally vibrant and rich on their own.

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