1 Giant Leap (album)

1 Giant Leap is the debut album by English electronic music duo 1 Giant Leap. Beginning in October 1999, its two members, Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, travelled across the world for six months to record vocals and music by various vocalists and musicians from Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, before returning to London in March 2000.^[2][3][4] The album was released on DVD in September 2002.^[3]

1 Giant Leap
Studio album by 1 Giant Leap
Released	2 April 2002
Genre	Trip hop, electronic, world
Label	Palm Pictures
Producer	Jamie Catto, Duncan Bridgeman
1 Giant Leap chronology
1 Giant Leap (2002) What About Me? (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dunya Salam" (featuring Baaba Maal)	Duncan Bridgeman Jamie Catto Baaba Maal	2:55
2.	"My Culture" (featuring Robbie Williams and Maxi Jazz)	Bridgeman Catto Maxi Jazz Robbie Williams Nigel Butler	5:39
3.	"The Way You Dream" (featuring Michael Stipe, Whirimako Black and Asha Bhosle)	Bridgeman Catto Michael Stipe	8:20
4.	"Ma' Africa" (featuring The Mahotella Queens and Ulali)	Bridgeman Catto Mahotella Queens Ulali	4:48
5.	"Braided Hair" (featuring Speech and Neneh Cherry)	Bridgeman Catto Speech Neneh Cherry Ulali	4:03
6.	"Ta Moko" (featuring Whirimako Black)	Bridgeman Catto Mako Black	5:09
7.	"Bushes" (featuring Baaba Maal)	Bridgeman Catto Maal	6:34
8.	"Passion" (featuring Michael Franti)	Bridgeman Catto Franti	5:46
9.	"Daphne" (featuring Eddi Reader, The Mahotella Queens and Revetti Sakalar)	Bridgeman Catto Mahotella Queens Eddi Reader	7:03
10.	"All Alone (On Eilean Shona)"	Bridgeman Catto Mahotella Queens	7:50
11.	"Racing Away" (featuring Grant Lee Phillips and Horace Andy)	Bridgeman Catto Kaolin Thompson Grant Lee Phillips Horace Andy	5:59
12.	"Ghosts" (featuring Eddi Reader)	Bridgeman Catto Reader Tim Booth	6:36

Personnel

1 Giant Leap

• Jamie Catto, Duncan Bridgeman – All instruments^[5]

Vocalists featured

• Robbie Williams – vocals
• Maxi Jazz – raps
• Neneh Cherry – vocals
• Michael Stipe – vocals
• Horace Andy – vocals
• Asha Bhosle – vocals
• Baaba Maal – vocals
• Mahotella Queens – vocals
• Grant Lee Phillips – vocals
• Whirimako Black – vocals
• Eddi Reader – vocals
• Ram Dass – spoken word
• Ulali – vocals, spoken word
• Tom Robbins – spoken word
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – spoken word
• Michael Franti – poetry
• Dana Gillespie – chant

Other musicians

• Dave Randall – guitar
• Nigel Butler – guitar, programming and mixing
• Sanjay Kumar – guitar
• DJ Swamp – turntables
• Ronu Majumdar – flute
• Lévon Minassian – duduk
• Pops Mohamed – percussion, kora, bird calls, effects
• Ayub Ogada – nyatiti
• Eddie Quansah – trumpet
• Bada Seck – djembe, sabar
• Goetz Botzenhardt – mixing engineer
• Tim Clark – executive producer
• Tony Cousins – mastering
• Suzette Newman – executive producer

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6]	18
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[7]	41
UK Albums (OCC)[8]	51