{"id":41250,"date":"2019-11-07T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/zap-mamas-debut-album-gets-vinyl-reissue-on-crammed-discs\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:00:57","slug":"zap-mama-crammed-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/zap-mama-crammed-discs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zap Mama&#8217;s debut album gets vinyl reissue on Crammed Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32275 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4be64e70-adventures-in-afropea-e1573204227880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4be64e70-adventures-in-afropea-e1573204227880.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4be64e70-adventures-in-afropea-e1573204227880-759x509.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4be64e70-adventures-in-afropea-e1573204227880-661x443.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4be64e70-adventures-in-afropea-e1573204227880-465x312.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4be64e70-adventures-in-afropea-e1573204227880-375x251.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Originally released on<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/crammed-discs\/\">Crammed Discs<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in 1991, Zap Mama\u2019s a cappella debut album has become a classic, and influenced\u00a0a large number\u00a0of vocalists and musicians around the world. \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Zap Mama consisted at the time of five young women (founder and leader\u00a0Marie Daulne,\u00a0Sabine Kabongo,\u00a0Sylvie Nawasadio,\u00a0Cecilia Kankonda and\u00a0C\u00e9line Thooft) who, inspired by their mixed African\/European origins and by the cosmopolitan environment of their hometown Brussels, created a wonderful a cappella body of work incorporating influences from Congolese pop, Arabic tunes and many more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0Eej45tBO4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The album was recorded in Brussels at Crammed&#8217;s erstwhile in-house studio.\u00a0<i>Zap Mama (Adventures in Afropea)<\/i>\u00a0became one of Crammed\u2019s all-time best selling records. It was\u00a0nominated for a Grammy and topped the Billboard\u2019s world music chart.<\/p>\n<p><i>Zap Mama (Adventures in Afropea), <\/i>reissued on November 15th via\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crammed.be\/index.php?id=37&amp;rel_id=499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crammed Discs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32249\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991.jpg\" alt=\"Zap_Mama - 1991\" width=\"1051\" height=\"1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b3b643d9-zap_mama-1991-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally released on Crammed Discs\u00a0in 1991, Zap Mama\u2019s a cappella debut album has become a classic, and influenced\u00a0a large number\u00a0of vocalists and musicians around the world. \u00a0 Zap Mama consisted at the time of five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[22016],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41250"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41250"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}