1 Giant Leap

This article is about the band. For the Heroes episode, see "One Giant Leap" (Heroes).

1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto (Faithless founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman.

Information

Based in the UK, the two musicians set out to create a multimedia project that would encompass a CD, DVD and cinematic presentation that would offer a complete artistic statement. The project offers music, digital video footage shot over the course of six months by Catto and Bridgeman, images, rhythms and spoken word content.

For more info on the album, see: 1 Giant Leap (album)

A Making Of was also shown on the Discovery channel, which featured some of the effort involved in finding and working with the musicians and other people involved in the project. As far as is known this is not available for purchase.

The first double-Grammy nominated project features contributions from Dennis Hopper, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Stipe, Robbie Williams, Eddi Reader, Tom Robbins, Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Speech, Asha Bhosle, Neneh Cherry, Anita Roddick, Michael Franti and other artists and authors.

The band's theme for the project is "Unity Through Diversity".

1 Giant Leap's "My Culture" video for their first top ten single, featuring Robbie Williams and Maxi Jazz from Faithless received extensive airplay.

The band was signed to the Palm record label and its eponymous CD was released on April 9, 2002. Since then, in 2004 they moved onto to a deal with Simon Fuller and 19 Productions to make a second film and album. This time instead of focusing on Unity and Inspiration, Jamie and Duncan decided to find the same uplifting message through the darker doorways of Shadow, Shame, Pain, Anger, Us & Them, Conflict, as well as more general themes such as Freedom, Sex and Love. They traveled further than before, this time including China, Japan, Brasil, Mexico, and the Middle East as well as their usual haunts in nine African nations and all over India and Europe. This second album is due for release in late 2007.

Artists on the new project (working title: 2sides2everything) include the above mentioned with Tim Robbins, Daniel Lanois, kd lang, Susan Sarandon, John Cusack, Zap Mama, Bob Geldof, Noam Chomsky, Billy Connolly, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsh, Courtney Love, Carrie Fisher, Bhagavan Das, Ram Dass, Oumou Sangare, Rokia Traore, Ramata Diakite, and others.

Discography

Albums

1 Giant Leap (2nd April 2002) #51 UK

Singles

• My Culture feat. Robbie Williams & Maxi Jazz - May 2002 - #9 UK
• Braided Hair feat. Neneh Cherry & Speech - August 2002 - #78 UK

External links

• 1 Giant Leap at Palm Pictures
• 1 Giant Leap
• 1 Giant Leap at MusicBrainz
• Film/Music Project inspired by 1 Giant Leap
• 1 Giant Leap Discography
• Full History at Sound On Sound

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