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List Price: $15.98 | | Label: Palm Pictures (Audio
Salesrank: 15864
Released: April 9, 2002 |
| Our Price: $9.13 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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1 Giant Leap Track Listing:
1. Dunya Salam (featuring Baaba Maal)
2. My Culture (featuring Robbie Williams & Maxi Jazz)
3. The Way You Dream (featuring Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosle)
4. Ma' Africa (featuring The Mahotella Queens & Ulali)
5. Braided Hair (featuring Speech & Neneh Cherry)
6. Ta Moko (featuring Whiri Mako Black)
7. Bushes (featuring Baaba Maal)
8. Passion (featuring Michael Franti)
9. Daphne (featuring Eddi Reader, The Mahotella Queens & Revetti Sakalar)
10. All Alone (On Eilean Shona)
11. Racing Away (featuring Grant Lee Phillips & Horace Andy)
12. Ghosts (featuring Eddi Reader)
Editorial Review:
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.
Description of 1 Giant Leap:
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.
1 Giant Leap Reviews:
Spiritual Awakening 
2008-05-26 - 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.
Beautiful
2007-12-12 - 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..
For All Mankind (And, Uh, Womankind)
2007-04-06 - 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 DVD runs a bit long), but there's really no denying that the music is, in fact, beautiful. Assisted musically (and with some vocal contributions by) people such as Brian Eno, Michael Franti, Michael Stipe, Kurt Vonnegut, Dennis Hopper, Baaba Maal and others, the record does court themes that may seem old news, but I'd argue that just because a message is old doesn't make it any less true, doesn't deprive of it of any of the power and honesty that compelled it when it was fresh and alive. Although this album is over five years old by now, and although the spirit that prompted it is even older, "fresh" and "alive" are still perfect words to describe every song in it.
Just a couple of good songs 
2007-03-02 - The DVD alone is worth the price. However, the album is not that great
Magnificent Visionary Musical Journey
2006-03-15 - This extraordinary DVD and CD will take you around the world and into the deepest mysteries of human being, through powerful music, compelling video footage, and thought provoking commentary. The whole is far greater than the sum of it's components. This inspired visionary and musical journey will take you to unforgettable places on the planet, and in your own psyche. Not to be missed!!!
