What About Me? by One Giant Leap

One Giant Leap

The creative forces behind 1 Giant Leap’ are Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, who had 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 Duran Duran, The Eurythmics, Shakespeare's Sister and Paul McCartney.

The backbone of the ‘1 Giant Leap’ project, is formed by each master-piece beginning with a pre-composed backing track which then 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 ‘What about Me’. Some of the collaborators who “add their music and sing their song” include KD Lang, Michael Stipe, Alanis Morrisette, 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 countries in the making, ‘1 Giant Leap-What About Me?’ sets out to capture the immense cultural diversity of the world we live in, in this time capsule of humanity at its most inspirational. ‘1 Giant Leap – What About me?’ is a unique, inspired and inspiring musical journey that will defy any pre-conceptions that you should have left behind before you pressed play...