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1 Giant Leap
The U.K.-based musician, film director, and Faithless cofounder Jamie Catto and producer Duncan Bridgeman coproduced this impressive multimedia CD, which boasts an eclectic array of artists ranging from Senegal's Baaba Maal and New Zealand's Maori artist Whirimako Black to the king of ambient, Brian Eno. This project, the fruit of a six-month, five-continent recording spree, is a funky, folkloric, and futuristic mélange of sampled indigenous instruments and electronica. "Braided Hair" teams the rap-country vocals of Arrested Development's Speech with the daring pop diva Neneh Cherry. The South African mbaqanga vocals of the Mahotella Queens provide the Afro-rave underpinnings for vocalist Ulali's poetic pleas for African unity. The tantric trances of the South Asian syncopated tabla drums pepper the synth-laden "When You Dream," which features R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and the Indian star Asha Bhosle. Boundaries of nationality, time, and musical genre meld into grooves for the head, hips, and heart that need no translation. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Tracks| 1 | Dunya Salam (featuring Baaba Maal) | | 2 | My Culture (featuring Robbie Williams & Maxi Jazz) | | 3 | The Way You Dream (featuring Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosle) | | 4 | Ma' Africa (featuring The Mahotella Queens & Ulali) | | 5 | Braided Hair (featuring Speech & Neneh Cherry) | | 6 | Ta Moko (featuring Whiri Mako Black) | | 7 | Bushes (featuring Baaba Maal) | | 8 | Passion (featuring Michael Franti) | | 9 | Daphne (featuring Eddi Reader, The Mahotella Queens & Revetti Sakalar) | | 10 | All Alone (On Eilean Shona) | | 11 | Racing Away (featuring Grant Lee Phillips & Horace Andy) | | 12 | Ghosts (featuring Eddi Reader) |
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