1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap - Music & Performance - CD

1 Giant Leap are visionary UK musicians Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman. Supported by music industry legend Chris Blackwell, they traveled the globe collaborating with an astonishing array of pop stars (Michael Stipe, Neneh Cherry and others), crating a provcative and ground breaking union of music, rhythms and words.

The global village shrinks down to a single neighborhood in this ambitious project. Rhythm is the road that runs through it all, drawing residents from most of the corners of the world; odd, though, that with legions gathered from India, Africa, New Zealand, Europe, and the U.S., no one from South or Latin America, or from any Native American cultures, joined the party. Even so, producers Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto accomplish a miracle of sorts by traveling to far-flung places and recording dozens of singers and musicians. Each artist contributes parts to one or another song, which are subsequently arranged into often-dazzling pastiches on frameworks of sensuous rhythm. The results are quite extraordinary: On "The Way You Dream" Michael Stipe's vocal floats into a flurry of jungle beats, which are animated by furious hand-drumming and sweetened by New Zealand flute (putorino) and Mandinka harp (kora). These elements melt together in total harmony, as if these disparate musicians had grown up playing together. 1 Giant Leap surprises constantly in this way, yet Bridgeman and Catto are apparently trying to make a point beyond music. The fact that the recipe for the human organism (70 percent water, 18 percent carbon, five percent nitrogen, two percent calcium) appears on the back cover suggests that the moral has something to do with the universality of mankind. Another reading is possible: If musicians are going to communicate over undeniable barriers, pop music -- arguably the simplistic distillation of all that culture has to offer -- is, for better or worse, the lingua franca. ~ Robert L. Doerschuk, Rovi

Performer	1 Giant Leap
Music genre	Electronica
Music subgenre	CD - WORLD DANCE
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	November 16, 2010
Edition	Standard
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	1 Giant Leap - One Giant Leap [CD]
Track listing	Dunya Salam (Featuring Baaba Maal), My Culture (Featuring Robbie Williams & Maxi Jazz), The Way You Dream (Featuring Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosle), Ma' Africa (Featuring the Mahotella Queens & Ulali), Braided Hair (Featuring Speech & Neneh Cherry), Ta Moko (Featuring Whiri Mako Black), Bushes (Featuring Baaba Maal), Passion (Featuring Michael Franti), Daphne (Featuring Eddi Reader, the Mahotella Queens & Revetti Sakalar), All Alone (On Eilean Shona), Racing Away (Featuring Grant Lee Phillips & Horace Andy), Ghosts (Featuring Eddi Reader)
Record label	Palm Pictures (Audio
Music producer	Duncan Bridgeman
Track name	My Culture (We Love This Mix), Dunya Salam, My Culture, The Way You Dream, Ma' Africa, Braided Hair, Ta Moko, Bushes, Passion, Daphne, All Alone (On Eilean Shona), Racing Away, Ghosts
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N