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  1 Giant Leap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman.
1 Giant Leap's "My Culture" video, featuring Robbie Williams and Maxi Jazz from Faithless has received extensive airplay.
The band is signed to the Palm record label and its eponymous CD was released on April 9, 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1_Giant_Leap   (195 words)

  
 Interview with 1 Giant Leap
1 Giant Leap - both the breakthrough music CD and the documentary DVD - is an incredibly ambitious collaborative effort between Faithless founder Jamie Catto and veteran music producer Duncan Bridgeman.
With 1 Giant Leap, the UK duo has created a snapshot of Earth culture in the 21st century - the result of six months spent hauling a laptop recording system around the globe as the two tracked down noted music gurus to add parts to 12 breathtaking new world music songs.
Recoil: Your website states that 1 Giant Leap, your vision was to capture and share with others the unique fusion of sound, images and spoken word.
www.recoilmag.com /interviews/1_giant_leap_0502.html   (1506 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap
The film and the CD are interwoven, with snippets of the interviews from the film used in layers during some of the songs; at other times, the film is almost set to the music of the CD.
1 Giant Leap's music is comprised of the magical vocals of Baaba Maal, Speech and Neneh Cherry, Eddi Reader, and a haunting collaboration between Michael Stipe, Asha Bhosle and Duncan.
1 Giant Leap was started three years ago, and while an intelligent discourse on humanity, diversity and unity is always important, it has never been so important as it is today.
www.macdirectory.com /music/1giantleap/Index.html   (844 words)

  
 SDLP TAKE 1 GIANT LEAP FOR BELFAST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
'1 Giant Leap Belfast' is a series of events dealing with the racial and cultural issues in Northern Ireland, by revealing the 'unity in diversity' through the screenings of the 1 Giant leap film.
As well as the film screenings and follow-up discussion forums the highlight will be the arrival of Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman in Belfast, bringing the music from the film to the stage with a collective of musicians who contributed to the soundtrack; fusing all genres of music into a world live mix.
Screening of 'Making of 1 Giant Leap' and discussion forum with the makers of the film and the general public.
www.sdlp.ie /prlewsleygiantleapforbelfast.shtm   (285 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap
He was half of the creative force behind 1 Giant Leap, the project he had described to me, and which he and his creative partner Jamie Catto had subsequently made a reality.
The visual side comprised two cameras (operated by 1 Giant Leap's cameraman Ben Cole and Jamie's girlfriend Jessica Howie), a tripod, and a circular blue screen, so the background could be replaced later at the video-editing stage.
The portable setup served 1 Giant Leap well in the field, but on his return to the UK, Duncan knew it was time to upgrade.
www.soundonsound.com /sos/feb03/articles/1giantleap.asp   (5560 words)

  
 MovieFreak.com - 1 Giant Leap DVD Review
Their vision was to capture and share with others the unique fusion of sound, image and spoken word from some of the world's most influential artists and musicians such as Neneh Cherry, Michael Stipe, Dennis Hopper, Asha Bhosle, Kurt Vonnegut and Baaba Maal.
1 GIANT LEAP appears in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD.
1 GIANT LEAP is a great demo disk for those looking for breath-taking spiritual harmony, the combination of thought and sound works perfectly well for this type of documentary.
www.moviefreak.com /dvd/numbers/1giantleap_a.htm   (292 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap
1 Giant Leap is a collaborative dvd project for the 21st century, which fuses music, words, sounds, rhythms and images from over 25 locations in 20 countries around the globe to celebrate diversity of musicians, story-tellers, authors, filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs, artists, and thinkers from many different cultures.
1 Giant Leap is a title, a philosophy, a leap of faith that sprung from the minds of visionary UK musicians/visual artists Jamie Catto (Faithless) and Duncan Bridgeman.
1 Giant Leap, in a similar way, shuttles us out of our prejudices and egos and asks us to see ourselves as part of a universal community of humankind.
blog.markwshead.com /info2/1-Giant-Leap.html   (2400 words)

  
 Then It Must Be True - Duncan Bridgeman & Jamie Catto ("1 Giant Leap")
1 Giant Leap project generated many questions both before and after bearing witness to the aural and visual components, but all those interrogatives boiled down to just that one big dilemma.
These guys are infiltrating the system in so many ways, through content and context: they've broken the restraints of traditional film narrative, traditional music video structure, traditional sound recording… all of which makes the whole thing so much more interesting but at the same time difficult to talk about because it so defies explanation.
And sure enough, those who have witnessed 1 Giant Leap are embracing the thoughts and truths their minds are being opened to via this music and the images (released on CD and DVD by Palm Pictures).
www.thenitmustbetrue.com /1giantleap/1giantleap.htm   (657 words)

  
 MAR 0321-22 1 GIANT LEAP - CR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
March 21, 2003–Jamie Catto, producer, director and composer of the Grammy-nominated audio-visual experience "1 Giant Leap," will visit Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to present and discuss his collaborative fusion of the world's most culturally significant musicians, thinkers, artists, authors, actors, and scientists today.
Presenting select portions of the “1 Giant Leap” DVD project, Catto will talk about the filmmaking process and the ideas that made his innovative endeavor a reality.
Co-created by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, “1 Giant Leap” explores the theme of unity in diversity, examining the concepts of sex, death, God, and time as a powerful message of hope.
www.lmu.edu /PageFactory.aspx?PageID=2710   (398 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: 1 Giant Leap: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman are the co-producers of 1 Giant Leap, although it's the latter who has the hands-on role of multi-instrumentalist, recordist and mixologist, providing each song's backbone.
There was the obvious danger of Deep Forestation, but at least 1 Giant Leap have engaged in active collaboration rather than long-distance sampling.
1 Giant Leap is a fusion of sound and word captured through travels in Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Bombay, New Delhi, Calcutta, Bangkok, South East Asia, Los Angeles, New York, India, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005UMQ5   (1271 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: 1 Giant Leap (2001)
1 Giant Leap represents an extensive, multimedia collaboration created by Duncan Bridgeman and Jaime Catto with the purpose of bringing together international musicians as well as tackling some rather heavy social subjects at the same time.
It's ironic that I just reviewed Koyaanisqatsi, because 1 Giant Leap, in many ways, is a kind of update of the concepts behind that landmark film.
Image Transfer Review: It seems most of 1 Giant Leap was filmed on digital video, and as a result, the image is quite flawless and impressive.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3877   (1391 words)

  
 1 GIANT LEAP - Braided Hair featuring Speech & Neneh Cherry
Palm Pictures is proud to present 1 Giant Leap, the "visual album" of the millennium.
In celebration of 1 Giant Leap - a unique fusion of music, words, global rhythms, and images from around the world - creators Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman will tour New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to introduce this interactive experience.
With "Unity in Diversity" as the project's running theme, a truly thought-provoking and inspiring QandA session with Jamie and Duncan will follow to discuss1 Giant Leap's genesis, their journey to over 20 countries, and the digital creation and production of audio and visual components of the project.
www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/gaintleapx12x04x02   (395 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap DVD, 1 Giant Leap Review
1 Giant Leap is a project that Jamie Catto (Faithless) and Duncan Bridgeman dreamed up.
The main coordinators are Jamie Catto (formerly of Faithless) and Duncan Bridgeman and they travelled the world with their laptop computers and digital video camera creating some of the most diverse music to ever be recorded.
1 Giant Leap is totally timeless with the variety of artists involved.
www.musicemissions.com /display_review/997   (470 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1 Giant Leap was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2003 and should have won.
It is not a rehash of Baraka or Koyaanisquatsi but if you were impressed by either of them, and/or if you love world music, you need to see 1GL.
It also carries some very interesting and pertinent comment on many political/philosophical themes.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0312296   (245 words)

  
 DVD Times - 1 Giant Leap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The idea of the project was to travel the world and gather the contributions from musicians of diverse cultures and bring them together on certain themes that are common to everyone no matter where we live in the world.
There are two shorter pieces, singles from the 1 Giant Leap album, which are good companion pieces for the main film and fit in well with the themes developed there.
1 Giant Leap doesn’t work on its own as a film or DVD project, but it is an excellent companion piece to the CD released earlier this year.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=3655   (1626 words)

  
 In Music We Trust - 1 Giant Leap: 1 Giant Leap
1 Giant Leap is a collaborative DVD/CD/Cinema project, one that places music, words, and images together from artists of all forms - musicians, authors, philosophers, and free thinkers - from over twenty locations around the globe.
Track after track, from subliminal pop to African dance, Arabic Theater to gospel, and everything in between, 1 Giant Leap has the outlook to change minds and expand your horizon.
This is a worldwide collective masterpiece, one that sounds good on its own, track to track, but shines when listened to in its entirety.
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/49r01.html   (179 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1 Giant Leap falls into the former, an unbelievably fluid, conceptually progressive score to an utter flop.
What was to be Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto's opus magnum turned into their plain ol' Opie, a whimsical fairy tale byline trying to identify world unity through images a la Baraka, with nowhere near the levity nor grace of that classic.
Judging from the music alone, you'd think the producing team actually made the leap and created something of epic proportion.
www.ethnotechno.com /1giantleap.php   (282 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
From Africa to India, Australia to Europe, North America to Nepal, they traveled in 1999 and 2000 for more than six months with a digital camera, microphones, and a laptop computer run by 12-volt batteries but powerful enough to serve as a mobile recording studio.
Before they began their journey, they wrote twelve simple synth- and guitar-based backing tracks with rhythms and melodies and downloaded them into their laptop.
In 1 Giant Leap, Catto and Bridgeman explore thought-provoking, universal concepts and group them in different “chapters”: Braided Hair (movement and change), Inspiration, Time, God, Money, Masks (first impressions), Sex, Confrontation, Death, Happy, Blasphemy, and Unity.
www.ovationtv.com /artszone/programs/onegiantleap   (485 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This is the second single from the 1 Giant Leap album, yet again homing in on the pop aspect of the album with Neneh Cherry and Speech from Arrested Development.
However, the gem on this single is the remix of 'Ma Africa', which ups the tempo over the original, transforming this into a global dance classic.
For further information on 1 Giant Leap see their official web site.
www.global-trance.co.uk /1_Giant_Leap.html   (591 words)

  
 music-reviewer.com - May, 2002 - 1 Giant Leap
1 GIANT LEAP is proof that music is truly a universal language and presents to the listener, the many human voices (faces)… of song.
And then there is “Ghosts”, the last step (track) or leap on this CD, which kneels in subliminal imagination!
With a time signature of musicians, authors, scientists and thinkers…1GIANT LEAP is a farmers-market of musical produce, that once planted continues to grow and pollinate with the listeners.
www.music-reviewer.com /05_02/1giantleap.htm   (259 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap - Welcome to 1 Giant Leap
Welcome to 1 Giant Leap - the second film and album is deep in Post Production now, due to be completed later this year.
For "1 Giant Leap" is nothing short of an electronic drum circle, drawing the citizens of Earth together for a planet-wide cautionary pep talk.
1 Giant Leap's website is about to be relaunched.
www.1giantleap.tv   (465 words)

  
 CD Reviews: Lo Fidelity Allstars, 1 Giant Leap, Hatebreed (NY Rock)
They sought to capture "unity in the diversity" and their documented work can be found on 1 Giant Leap.
For all the innovations in music production since the beginning of time, two of the most venerable instruments are the human voice and a hand drum, and there's plenty of that on this album.
While One Giant Leap is a great CD, featuring artists that listeners would probably never have discovered on their own, the fusion of modern dance music with traditional music is nothing new.
www.nyrock.com /reviews/2002/loh.asp   (722 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The 1 Giant Leap CD features 12 songs that mirror the themes of the DVD - a sonic, musical, rhythmic journey, filled with the kinds of discovery and surprise that rarely happen in the confines of a recording studio.
Its gorgeous sound is a product of the collaborative, multicultural process by which it was recorded, each song consisting of parts contributed from different corners of the globe.
Above all, 1 Giant Leap is an exploration of the predicament of being a citizen of Earth at this crucial point in history.
i2.ifilm.com /ifilmdetail/2418552   (383 words)

  
 Amazon.com: 1 Giant Leap: Music: 1 Giant Leap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1 Giant Leap is Jamie Catto from Faithless & musician/producer Duncan Bridgeman.
To say this is world music in this case is in no way to limit it to being a stagnant repetition of the songs and sounds of other cultures and nations.
1 giant leap brings music from all over the world, and blends them with a sense of mainstream.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UMQ5?v=glance   (1776 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap DVD Review - MovieWeb
As I have stated a 1 GIANT LEAP really isn't my cup of tea.
In fact the fact that a film like 1 GIANT LEAP can get made and distributed is amazing.
Doing a director's commentary would have been very hard since 1 GIANT LEAP isn't a movie so much as it's a bunch ofshort films commenting on things that exist within ALL cultures.
www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/50/28950/review97.php   (492 words)

  
 1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap | Sound Generator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap
AMAZON U.S. 1 Giant Leap is firmly in the world music category, but by working with a number of collaborative artists from a left-field genre has opened the doors to originality - and opened them wide.
1 Giant Leap is firmly in the world music category, but by working with a number of collaborative artists from a left-field genre has opened the doors to originality - and opened them wide.
soundgenerator.com /burner/review_detail.cfm?reviewid=46   (533 words)

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