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Price Info. Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 28th September. They journeyed to 25 countries armed with a digital audio video camera and laptop, capturing sound, images and spoken word from some of the world's most influential artists. The result is some magician-like mixes and a seamless and clever production. The CD cuts down the music to the core and starts with the wonderful soaring vocals of Senegalese legend, Baaba Maal. Neither has a particularly strong infusion of world sounds.

The driving rhythms of the percussion and guitar do, however, set the tone for much of the music. The vocal interplay continues with seriously mellow Indian percussion grooves, some sublime kora and then the inspired addition of drum and bass.

It adds up to 8 minutes of something quite special, a marriage of sounds made in heaven. This track is in my desert island top ten. These elements melt together in total harmony, as if these disparate musicians had grown up playing together. The fact that the recipe for the human organism 70 percent water, 18 percent carbon, five percent nitrogen, two percent calcium appears on the back cover suggests that the moral has something to do with the universality of mankind.

Another reading is possible: If musicians are going to communicate over undeniable barriers, pop music -- arguably the simplistic distillation of all that culture has to offer -- is, for better or worse, the lingua franca. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Shipping and handling.

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1 Giant Leap surprises constantly in this way, yet Bridgeman and Catto are apparently trying to make a point beyond music. The fact that the recipe for the human organism (70 percent water, 18 percent carbon, five percent nitrogen, two percent calcium) appears on the back cover suggests that the moral has something to do with the universality.