Music : 1 Giant Leap
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0660200207724
Label: Palm Pictures (Audio
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures (Audio
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Palm Pictures (Audio
Release Date: April 09, 2002
Sales Rank: 11691
Studio: Palm Pictures (Audio
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Album Description:
1 Giant Leap is Jamie Catto from Faithless & musician/producer Duncan Bridgeman. The album is recordings they gathered while traveling around the world. They recorded a number of musicians, storytellers, authors, filmmakers, artists and thinkers from many different cultures. Artists included on the album are Michael Stipe, Asha Bosle, Dennis Hopper, Baaba Maal, The Mahotella Queens, Kurt Vonnegut, Horace Andy, Michael Franti & DJ Swamp. Housed in a slipcase. 2002.
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The U.K.-based musician, film director, and Faithless cofounder Jamie Catto and producer Duncan Bridgeman coproduced this impressive multimedia CD, which boasts an eclectic array of artists ranging from Senegal's Baaba Maal and New Zealand's Maori artist Whirimako Black to the king of ambient, Brian Eno. This project, the fruit of a six-month, five-continent recording spree, is a funky, folkloric, and futuristic mélange of sampled indigenous instruments and electronica. "Braided Hair" teams the rap-country vocals of Arrested Development's Speech with the daring pop diva Neneh Cherry. The South African mbaqanga vocals of the Mahotella Queens provide the Afro-rave underpinnings for vocalist Ulali's poetic pleas for African unity. The tantric trances of the South Asian syncopated tabla drums pepper the synth-laden "When You Dream," which features R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and the Indian star Asha Bhosle. Boundaries of nationality, time, and musical genre meld into grooves for the head, hips, and heart that need no translation. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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It's been a very long time since I was this bowled over by an album. Like the first featured reviewer, I am in love. I just don't understand why I didn't know about this. I've had a different version of the song "Braided Hair" on a compilation CD for years, and liked it so I finally sought out the album it originally came from. I never, ever expected to find this deeply spiritual collaboration of amazing talent.
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WOW!!! If you are the least bit spiritual then you will fall right into this CD with no problems at all, and if you are not, you will before you finish listening to this. The music spans the globe reflecting how other cultures express their spirituality and touches something way deep down inside and makes you think much deeper than the surface of things. It is the companion to the DVD and I can't imagine having one without the other.I play this CD contantly and it always brings me a sense of calm, and happiness yet with a touch of sadness, only because I wish everyone could listen and have a similar experience. If everyone listened to this music, I think our world would be a better place. Yes, simple as that.
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This is a beautiful cd. The combination of sounds in the songs, the combination of cultures is very well done. Even the spoken intros are interesting. I first borrowed this cd from the library and fell for it immediately. I didn't want to return it. Anything that combine Indian, Reggae, Rap, Africa and more...that, that is a wonderful thing..
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Artists Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman collaborated in 2002 on this concept album to rousing success. Working under the theme of "Unity Through Diversity," the Brit-based duo travelled across the world gathering video, sound, and guest artists in an attempt to create a wholistic creative vision. The end product is a stunning achievement, a combination of loamy spirituality, untarnished deep earth culturalism, and the sprig and sap of full-bloom electronica.
You may remember "My Culture," a hip-hop-n-dream-pop number featuring Robbie Williams and Maxi Jazz. One of the album's first singles, it got a lot of play in 2002-3, and its short form music video was nominated for a Grammy. Rightfully so, as the song is reminiscent of what makes the entire rest of the album so wonderful -- uncannily unique rhythms tied to lyricism and tones that strike chords at the cellular level.
Not a hard thing to do when you dipping your ladle into the slow-moving streams of tribal music, unsullied Indian chants, and the traditional prayer-songs of people with more than a little of their life tied inextricably to the past that made them. Songs like "Ma' Africa," "Passion," and "Braided Hair" postively glow with the energy and emotion behind the words. Others, like "The Way You Dream" and "Daphne" and "All Alone" float dreamily through their own notes, aloft on the not-so-hidden hope of the record's message.
Some might find it heavy-handed or cliched (the ... Read More
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The DVD alone is worth the price. However, the album is not that great
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