“I Zimbra” is the record that launched the band’s exploration into new sounds and dimensions. It’s a portal to African popular music. And it showed us how you can take the continent’s textures and rhythms and weave them into new wave. Congas, djembes and surdos mixed freely with guitars, synthesizers and bass. At the same time, “I Zimbra” was a foreshadowing of the sound that would manifest itself in the landmark album Remain in Light.

“Gadji beri bimba clandridi. Lauli lonni cadori gadjam. A bim beri glassala glandride. E glassala tuffm I zimbra.”