What About Me? [Import]

1 Giant Leap (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B001UW59SA
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,299 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Come to the Edge

2. Each Step Moves Us On

3. How Can I Be a Better Friend to You?

4. There's Nothing Wrong with Me

5. Are You My Love?

6. Wounded in All the Right Places

7. I Have Seen Trouble

8. Solita Sin Solidad

9. Serenity Prayer

10. 1 Small Step

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Under a Story Sky/I've Been Away

2. What I Need Is Something Different

3. Mothers, Dont' Cry

4. The Truth Is Changing

5. Freedom

6. Arrival

7. Forgive Me

8. Set Me Free

9. What I Need Is Something Different [Dub]

Editorial Reviews

Review

Disc 1
1. Come To The Edge (Feat Lila Downs)
2. Each Step Moves Us On (Feat. Zap Mama)
3. How Can I Be A Better Friend To You (Feat. Maxi Jazz & Jhelisa)
4. Nothing Wrong With Me (Feat.Speech, Jhelisa & Oumou Sangare)
5. Are You My Love (Feat. Eddi Reader)
6. Wounded In All The Right Places (Feat. Kd Lang)
7. I Have Seen Trouble (Feat. Michael Stipe)
8. Solita Sin Solidad (Feat. Lila Downs & Santana)
9. Serenity Prayer
10. 1 Small Step
11. Why Must I Feel Like This Today (Feat. Michael Franti, Baaba Maal & Krishna Das)
Disc 2
1. Under A Stormy Sky..I ve Been Away (Feat. Eddi Reader, Michael Franti, Maxi Jazz)
2. What I Need Is Something Different (Feat. Boots Riley & Speech)3. Mothers Don t Cry (Feat. Miles Solay)
4. The Truth Is Changing (Feat. Will Young)
5. Freedom (Feat. African Show Boys)6. Arrival (Feat. Alanis Morrisette)
7. Forgive Me (Feat. Sharon Lewis)
8. Set Me Free (Feat. Rokia Traore)
9. What I Need Is Something Different (Remix) --Track Listing

Product Description

Australian exclusive release.

With Their Debut Release Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost Receiving Critical Acclaim And Two Grammy Nominations, The Creative Forces Behind 1 Giant Leap, Jamie Catto And Duncan Bridgeman Return With Their Much Anticipated Follow Up Release What About Me? . As A Founding Member Of Famed British Dance Act Faithless, Jamie Catto Has Produced Numerous Top Ten Hits Worldwide, With Two Albums Achieving Gold Status In The Uk Alone. His 1 Giant Leap Counter-Part Duncan Bridgeman, Achieved A Number One Dance Hit As A Member Of Groundbreaking Soul Band I Level In The Early 80 s, And Continued On To Become A Successful Producer And Remixer, Working With Transvision Vamp, Duran Duran, The Eurythmics, Shakespeare's Sister & Paul Mccartney.

The Backbone Of The 1 Giant Leap Project Is Formed By Each Masterpiece Beginning With A Pre-Composed Backing Track Which Grows And Develops As New Layers Are Added. Rather Than Gathering Samples And Taking Them Back To A Studio, Collaborators Were Able To Hear The Contribution From Previous Collaborators Resulting In A Unique Organic Creative Process. Bridgeman Explains, We Have 15 Pieces Of Music We Travel With. What We Do Is Give Them Our Beat, Or A Piece Of Our Music, Something That Will Inspire Them. They All Have Radio Headphones; So They re Listening To Our Music. Then They Add Their Music And Sing Their Song. This Is From Every Country Across The World, Each Person Hearing In The Headphones What The Last Person Did. Every Country Across The World Equates To Over 50 Locations Visited Worldwide In The Production Of The Album.

Some Of The Collaborators Who Add Their Music And Sing Their Song Include Kd Lang, Michael Stipe, Alanis Morissette, Michael Franti, Carlos Santana, Stewart Copeland, Maxi Jazz, And Baba Maal Alongside African Tribal And Bedouin Musicians, Chinese Rappers, Gabonese Pygmies And Tuvan Throat Singers Masterfully Crafted Into A Truly Unique Musical Experience.

4-Years, 5 Continents And 50 Locations In The Making, What About Me? Sets Out To Capture The Immense Cultural Diversity Of The World We Live In, A Time Capsule Of Humanity At Its Most Inspirational. A Unique And Inspiring Musical Journey That Will Defy Any Pre-Conceptions That You Should Have Left Behind Before You Pressed Play.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 1 Giant Leap II, A Step Backward, July 11, 2010

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D. Cross "D_Cross" (Hollywood, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Hard to follow up the first one, which I put in my top 10 for the last decade. This one is less focused, more scattershot. One major criticism - too many of the "songs" devolve into rapping. And whereas the 1st album had songs that would meander a bit, too many of the songs on this one make complete about-faces mid-song, sometimes more than once in the same song. It's too much of throwing the kitchen sink and everything else into one 9:00 piece instead of just letting a groove flow and grow, but maintaining some refrain throughout, or at least returning full circle at the end. Am I getting too esoteric. Well, it's hard to describe this wild collage of music.

But my main complaint is: too much rap. I mean, 80% of the world has never even heard rap, so it really plays a minor role in the bigger picture - but obviously not to the 2 producers here. And especially when you have so many beautiful voices at play - why lazily let someone rap right over every song?? It takes the mood right out of the Middle East or Asia or Africa and puts it right back in Brooklyn. That would be okay once or twice but not on ALL 20 songs. It just reeks of pandering to the rich, white liberal KCRW crowd.

Overall, this just isn't as satisfying a journey as the first album. Where the 1st one felt very organic, effortlessly blending its disparate parts, this feels overly-thought out or clumsy. Definitely check out the work of the individual artists on here, though - Krishna Das, Baaba Maal, Yungchen Lhamo are some of my personal faves.

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing, December 26, 2011

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Dana Neal "Dana Neal" (Los Gatos, CA) - See all my reviews

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I enjoyed the first album a great deal. In fact, it's one of my favorites of all time. Which makes this second all the more disappointing.

I concur with the other reviewers, namely that there's far too much rap influence. Even worse, most of the songs are accompanied by talking in the form of New Age dribble. Just shut up and sing already.

Only one song redeems this as being a total failure and earning it a single star rating, "I've seen trouble." Awesome. Buy the single.

4.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary ethnic music production!!!, August 17, 2009

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Gustavo Martin (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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Not as god as 1 Giant Leap, but a great musical production!!! I love 1 Giant Leap message!!!