Music Is My Weapon

The intro to Mission Impossible II got me hooked on Zap Mama. It's the song that's playing while the hero is scaling the face of the mountain. The song "Iko Iko," like most of Zap Mama's songs, has a acapella caribian feel to it. Very exotic music.

The particular album I will hype is A Ma Zone. Running the gamut from soul to hip hop to drum & bass, Marie Daulne's Zap Mama is expanding the perameters once again with their fourth album. A Ma Zone marks a lyrical shift for Marie, from politics to the social shortcomings of modern society with the emphasis being placed on the dehumanizing effects of modern communication. Marie explains: "Everybody's in such a hurry these days that everything has to be done by telephone or over the information superhighway." A Ma Zone offers listeners an alternative to life at 56k. A Ma Zone signifigantly improved in lyrical ability and even instrumental, since the last CD. This CD gets lumped in with "world" music because of its african feel, but this is a slight misnomer. This is much more than the soundtrack to National Geographic. It is more like the soundtrack to an exotic vacation.