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founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman.

Career

Based in the UK, the two musicians set out to create a

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project that would encompass a CD, DVD and cinematic presentation that would offer a complete artistic statement. The project offers music,

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video footage shot over the course of six months by Catto and Bridgeman,

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s, rhythms and

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content. The band was signed to the Palm record label and its eponymous CD was released on 9 April 2002. It features contributions from

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, and other artists and authors. The band's

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for the project is "Unity Through Diversity". A

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was also shown on the

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, which featured some of the effort involved in finding and working with the musicians and other people involved in the project. 1 Giant Leap's "

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" video for their first top ten single, featuring Robbie Williams and

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from

, received extensive airplay. In 2004, they moved on to a deal with

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and

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to make a second film and album titled ''What About Me?'' The concept was the same as their initial CD and DVD—travelling the world interviewing artists and sampling music—though the second time around their journey was longer (four years) and doubling the number of contributing artists from their debut release.

Reception

In a review for

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'', Charles deLedesma said that the album and DVD had "an uphill marketing struggle ... because it isn't easily pigeonholed. But that's its real strength, too. This production presents a luscious, cohesive collection of images, ideas and extremely beautiful world music, which flows here with the voices of three continents."

Discography

Albums

Video albums

Singles

References

External links

What About Me? website1 Giant Leap website1 Giant Leap at Palm Pictures
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Film/Music Project inspired by 1 Giant LeapFull History at Sound On Sound1 Giant Leap at Palmpictures.co.uk
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