"You've got to realise one thing." "And that is, you need to tame your wild, crazy mind." "You gotta tame it." "All right?" "Your mind has a very, very bad habit which we call self-cherishing and I call it," "What about me?" "What about me?" "What about me?" "What about me?" "And it's a bore." "And it's a drag." "And nobody wants to hear it." "So you can just shut up and get off of it and... give." "That's all." "Give." "Give." "Be here and give." "Connect with people." "Right?" "And you're so busy giving, you don't have time to think about yourself." "Um, you're gonna be a lot happier." "This is a time... for awakening for humans on the planet." "This is a time to wake up out of the madness, because the history of humanity is basically the history of... insanity." "But for the first time in the history of this insanity, is the insanity threatening to destroy us?" "Mad intelligence." "That's what humans have developed." "We could call it also..." "You could call it cleverness." "They're all clever but mad." "Mad intelligence." "So we're coming to the end of this one way or another." "Either we destroy ourselves or we wake up out of that dream, the nightmare." "But to see your own madness is the beginning of healing and sanity, because there is in every human being not only the madness, there's also the sanity." "Through the media, mostly what you get is the madness." "But at the same time, there are millions of other humans who already have that awakening within them so that they can hear." "It's liberating to see we are mad." "Some people say that's depressing." "It's not depressing." "It's liberating." "Mad." "I'm mad." "But I realise that I am mad." "SHE SINGS" "DRUMMING" "Every child and ego gradually begins to develop." "One of the first things a child learns is his or her name." ""I am..." "John"," ""I am..." And then come other things when children grow up - "I am... a boy"," ""I am a girl"." ""I am strong", "I am weak"." "The ego is always... built on identification with this or that." "The word the way it's used conventionally, is perhaps the greatest delusion." "Because when you say you think you know who you are." "I'll hear and I wanna go" "Something tells me there's a struggle" "How am I gonna say goodbye now?" "I know you won't like it..." "Then the child gets toys." "That's my car, little toy." "It's mine, mine." "If somebody takes away the toy, the child is in extreme agony." "HE WAILS "But it's mine!"" "My name is Ego I'll be with you till your last breath" "Right here's a small list of all the things that scare me to death" "I can't stand things that I can't understand" "And I especially hate things I can't command" "I don't like the unfamiliar and I've got to be first" "But I tell you, without me, you could never be a Mandela" "Who would know of Mohammad Ali, without me" "Hmm" "My name is Lust, I'm not a real person" "More like a quality" "Attach myself behind your eyes temporarily" "And blind you to anything you think you might wanna be" "Make you promise me everything for fame, for idolatry" "And when I leave you, you can never follow me" "Find yourself confined in solitary" "You will ever hollow be" "I remembered when I was three or four years old, you know, going out in front of my house and, you know, having a huge poop, like, you know, right in front of the house on the sidewalk and then running inside excited," "to bring my parents out, my mom and dad, and show them what I had done," "I was so excited about it." "And what was I...?" "I was whipped." "I was spanked and whipped for it." "And violently, you know..." ""Shame on you." "Look what you did."" "(Woman) We've been trained and conditioned to shutdown..." "our spontaneous responses, our authentic and essential responses, from a very early age." "You know, "Don't cry." "What's wrong?"" "Er, you know, "No, don't be scared."" "I mean, we're talked out of our feelings and shut down cos nobody knows how to communicate from an emotional field." "(Man) Childhood is tough." "Childhood is rough." "All the other kids on the playground are telling us what's wrong with us and why we're not OK." "And the bad part about it is, when you're 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, you believe it, you don't have the strength to reject it and say, "That's not true."" "You take it all in and make it part of your truth." "I was abused by my father when I was younger, and I carried it around, I didn't tell anybody." "It's the weirdest thing, because you..." "It's one of those... er, events that makes you feel..." "It's a crime that makes you feel you committed it when you're the victim, because it isn't all pain, you know there is pleasure in it." "So you carry this around with you that you were part of the crime." "And you'll read this all the time when you hear victims of it speaking, "I felt so guilty, I felt..."" "And then the last guilt is when your father dies, or the person dies, and you haven't confronted them about it." "And you think, well, time will heal it, but time doesn't heal it." "It actually gets worse." "The idea of shadow has to be liberated." "We must go into the places that scare us, into the darkness, and make friends with our demons." "The wound is... is the key, because we are all wounded by birth." "We are like, "Where am I?" "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" ""Where is he?" "Where is she?"" "And so we're constantly recreating until we make peace with loneliness and with the shame and with our own anger." "I can kiss" "Away these tears" "I wouldn't miss" "Your edges, your cliffs, they are clay" "They are clues gone astray" "Finding the ones we refuse" "And we breathe in the breeze" "And stir through the leaves that still fall" "On our feet" "Covering" "The lives we reveal" "We are wounded in all the right places" "I feel it all" "I feel it all..." "You have to learn your way through these things." "You gotta fight through things." "The big problem is when they medicate teenagers and children, often at the request of the "expert opinion" of some fucking teacher that is having a hard time with a creative child, essentially." "Now, when you medicate a kid through those years, that kid's not learning how to deal with depression, or anger." "The discomfort that the child's depression and anger brings the parent or the teacher, the idea that they would medicate him, it's really a selfish thing." "It's really the teacher's problem and the parent's problem." "So what they wind up doing is medicating these kids, and the kids find their way, like other teenagers, into self-medication, along with that medication." "And that's a recipe for disaster." "And all these shooters in Columbine and Kip Kinkel up in Oregon and that kid down south were all on antidepressants throughout their teenage years." "And what happened was, they got to a point where the rage just blew." "Your kid's got a lot of energy, find something to do with the energy." "Get off your ass, Mom, Dad, and do something rather than just put a pill into their mouth." "I feel it all" "Fe-e-e-e-e-e-e!" "it all" "HE SINGS" "Who am I to talk?" "And who am I to punish you" "Come around and put you down?" "I fe-e-el..." "I am depressive by nature, I'm fairly melancholic by nature," "I'm not Captain Chuckles, you know." "When things were really bad..." "That I mean, things got really bad, you know?" "Almost to ultimate point." "I was offered, you know, happy pills." "You know, "Take a pill." So you take a pill." ""Take another pill, it doesn't matter." It does matter!" "But I declined them because, um..." "It's probably wrong, but I just think a human being has to understand the process of this thing, to almost stand back and try and externalise the pain and the anguish and the loss and the grief," "and look at it and say, "What is that?" and recognise it, just so you can say, "I know you, get back in there." "I know who you are."" "Dating your demons, all right." "Being a victim, you know?" "I am suffering!" ""Everything is always fucked up for me, nobody understands..."" "That's a demon." "You understand?" "And it took me years of not being honest with myself, running from the truth, denying what was in my faith." "Blaming everybody else." ""She's an asshole," "He's fucked up,"" ""Look at them..." Arghhh!" "But there was a common denominator." "Me." "I had to really 'fess up." "You know, "I'm full of shit." "I need a colonic."" "SHE LAUGHS" "Cos I can easily just sink." "Yeah, I can sink into the depths." "I have seen trouble, trouble saw me" "I danced around the trouble tree" "I have seen beauty" "It staggered on me" "I have seen trouble" "Mmmmm" "I'm seeing double" "I can't feel" "My heart is hurt" "Nothing feels real" "The sand in my eyes" "I can't conceal" "Everything is staggered on me" "Mmmmmm" "I have seen trouble" "Trouble saw me" "I danced around" "The trouble tree" "Mmmmm. .." "There is, in every human being, an accumulation of past emotional pain - and emotional pain that is not fully faced in the moment that it arises, the remnants of it become lodged in the body." "And that emotional pain is a... a ball of unhappiness, one could almost call it, that lives in you." "I call it the pain body that human beings carry inside." "And this is what causes overreactions." "Just an innocent comment that your partner makes to you could act as a trigger." "Once it's engaged in drama, it doesn't want the drama to end." "It wants more." "It also goes into your mind, so that your thinking becomes deeply negative." "Your thinking is fuelled by the old emotion." "It feeds on every negative thought that it makes you have." "It loves negative thinking." "One negative thought after another, "How dreadful..."" "You can hate yourself and tell yourself how much you hate yourself." "You can hate your partner and tell yourself how much you hate your partner." "Fighting doesn't help." "What helps is becoming friendly with it." "What does that mean?" "It's like, "Oh, I can feel this", "Look at that", and you feel it." "That is, you allow it to be." "You become the observing presence rather than it." "And then the old emotion cannot take you over because you are still there." "Here's the emotion which you allow to be." "You are the space around the emotion." "You're not the emotion any more." "That transforms it and it frees you from being its slave." "Realise your own thought processes are creating suffering for yourself." "HE LAUGHS" "And for most people on this planet, the only spiritual teacher they have is their suffering." "And then the suffering becomes an opening." "Trouble, take the back seat" "Trouble, take a rest" "Trouble, lose the fight" "Put me to the test" "I've held my heart so close to my chest" "You leave me wanting" "I can't forget now" "Mmmm" "Hmmm-hmmm-hmmm" "Hah hah hah hah" "Hah hah hah hah" "Hah hah hah hah" "I can't fight" "I can't fight" "I can't fight" "And I know I'm in the fight" "I can't fight" "Yeah, I know in the fight... fight..." "I can't fight" "It's a feeling I can't fight" "I can't fight" "It's a feeling I can't fight, no" "Left home with nothing" "Nothing to feel" "Trouble staggered on me" "Left home with nothing" "I want to feel" "Something, somewhere is real" "ACCORDION PLAYS" "Music and sex, it's a supreme gift from God to us." "Er, without either one, I would not want to be on this planet." "Sexually, I think we all get excited by the animal." "If we are talking about fornication, a man gets excited by a good arse, a good pair of tits." "To a sexually liberated woman a man who is violent, incorrect, inadequate and disgusting could be tremendously satisfying in bed but I doubt very much if she would marry him, whereas a man is much more stupid and will marry the one with the big tits." "Women, for some reason, like to claim that they're as excited by the idea of sex as men are, but it's a manifest nonsense." "I mean, when do women hang around in parks and look for casual encounters with men?" "They just don't." "Well, the only ones that do are prostitutes, who do it for money, which proves the very point!" "They have to be paid to do it." "Whereas when it's just men, they don't want to have a relationship, they just wanna have sex." "New, if women were like that, then we all know the men would say, "Oh, thank you!"" "For some bizarre reason, women don't want you to believe this." ""Oh, that's not true at all!" ""I saw a waiter the other day with quite nice buttocks." ""It made me quite juicy just thinking about it."" "And a man would say, "Only the other day?" ""What about every fucking minute of every hour of every day?" "You just don't get it!" ""You don't get it, what it's like to have one of these in your bloody trousers." ""You've no idea what it's like!"" "And women don't." "Lucky for them." "I think the greatest agony of my life, it's gotta do with the categorisations of gender, because what I am is an 80-instrument symphony walking about, oboes, bassoons, cellos, violins, timpani drums," "once in a while a mezzo-soprano solo, you know, I got it all going on." "And unless I am appropriately heterosexually male, in this very exact way - which is not just about wardrobe, it's about syncopation, tone, the things you talk about - unless you are exactly the heterosexual male" "that everyone obviously knows is a heterosexual male immediately, you don't score." "I don't want to have to be an 80-instrument symphony that only plays one note, but many nights I'm trying." "I'm trying to reduce my own Beethoven to, um, phlegm." "Women are very attractive." "And being attractive as they are, men are weak." "Men can be dangerous." "They can be evil." "And men sometimes, if they lose their mind, and the sexual desires are aroused, they are just like beasts, like animals." "(Woman) The male is an animal, driven by its testosterone." "And this needs to be firmly controlled as a necessity to degradate in order to transcend its male, arrogant ego." "Most of the men, they are really more than willing to please the woman, just by telling him how she wants to be pleased and just by telling him, "Look at me, I'm a goddess!"" "The great power women have over men is the sexual power." "Men become stupid in the face of that power." "Do people want to talk about and put down the prostitute, the he and the tramp, the whore, the slut, you know, that which people scowl and spit and snarl at?" "That energy is so powerful." "It's powerful, where men, like you said, go crazy." "They will empty out their wallet, their tongues will hang out of their mouth, they will spiral into another mental zone when they watch a woman dancing on a pole." "Now you tell me if that's not power." "I like to scream in the middle of the street" "Take off all my clothes" "Talking to the trees Start a big fire" "Pray for world peace For my sanity, open up my mind" "And see what I can see" "Search for a cure Without thinking it's a sin" "Smoke a fuckin' joint and have a little lovin'" "Set all the animals free in the zoo all over the world" "Set all the animals free" "Set all the animals free in the zoo all over the world" "Put people in cages instead" "Jump on my bed" "Ain't nothing wrong with this beat now" "Nothing wrong with my shoes" "Nothing wrong with my life" "Nothing wrong with my life" "Ain't nothing wrong with this beat now" "Nothing wrong with my boobs" "Nothing wrong with my life" "Nothing wrong with my life" "Ain't nothing wrong with my..." "Ain't nothing wrong with my boobs" "Ain't nothing wrong with my feet" "Ain't nothing wrong with my head" "There ain't nothing wrong with me" "Ain't nothing wrong with me" "Ain't nothing wrong with me..." "Those who are into marketing, they have understood the point of weakness of men." "And that is on the shape of a woman." "Our New Age trauma is not money and it's not fame." "We are obsessed with being thin and fair." "My mother's generation was actually..." "I mean, who wanted to marry a skinny girl?" "You wanted someone who had a beautiful belly and beautiful hips and the sari is designed not for skinny people," "I mean, it's designed for a voluptuous body." "And you drape it." "It sits best on nice big boobies and a beautiful butt, you know?" "If you call a woman fat in Europe, it's a big insult." "Exactly the opposite is happening in Africa." "We don't like skinny women here." "We prefer here big ones, even fatter ones, sometimes." "If you call a woman here big or fat, she will be boastful, she will be happy." "Hey, Papa Hey, hey, Mama..." "Meaty women are sexy, like me." "When I open a magazine, it makes me depressed." "My butt's not like that!" "I have pimples and I have stretch marks and how come?" "It's like..." "It's not fair." "It's just not fair." "You look at a magazine and it depresses you." "I think fashion magazines depress women, you know, more than anything." "It's so funny, because I get calls all the time to say they're doing an article and they want me to talk about how terrible it is that all the women in Hollywood are so thin and yet those are the same magazines" "that have these women on the covers and they have articles about dieting." "You know, so you're getting mixed messages at best." "And when you have some kind of roving anxiety and, let's face it, the world makes you anxious these days," "I think that that has a lot to do with it." "I think that this roaming anxiety lands on your thighs and your butt, on your jowls or wherever it is." "When you start to pick and pick and pick and look for control, control of your body, I think you have to ask yourself what's really going on today." "And I'm now... feeling badly and I look to blame my body." "In the middle of an orgasm, do you think," ""Am I having too much flab around my middle"?" "When you're really in an ecstatic place and you look at your child's face and you're completely happy and you see your family around you, you don't think about that." "From the well of my tears" "Drinks the Tamarind tree" "The one for whom I cry" "Is full of beauty" "Women have a right to have those issues, because men have created them." "Women, for centuries, have been allowed into the cave or out of the cave, based on how they looked." "This intense focus on their physical appearance is not something that women would prefer, given a choice." "But when women deeply understand, even in this day and age when they see their husbands walking out the door because the girl across the street is half as young and twice as lithe, what are they to obsess on, if not their physical appearance?" "Their minds?" "Hey, I've read as many books as you have, why are you leaving my house?" "SHE SINGS" "I'm just going to find you a beat that you can rap to." "OK." "And I want to hear about your plastic surgery." "My plastic rap?" "Rap, rap, rap, rap" "Everybody understand Everybody better look" "Open up your hand, baby, open up a book" "What you want - bigger titties?" "What you want - a bigger booty?" "What you want - bigger lipsie?" "I got a big nose But I ain't gonna change it" "I'll change yours Gimme a little dough" "OK, you can look pretty Look in the magazines all over the city" "Ladies and gentlemen, especially the gentlemen..." "THEY SING" "Come on, get up, stand up, get out We can all, we must do our stuff, c'mon..." "THEY SING" "Come on, get up, stand up, get out We can all, we must do our stuff, c'mon..." "Hey, Papa Hey, hey, Mama" "Hey, hey, Papa Hey, hey, Mama" "Hey, hey, Papa Hey, hey, Mama" "Hey, hey, Papa" "Hey, hey, Mama" "It's enough we're gettin' up Lettin' up, we declare" "Definitive without fear, it's a cinch We discover" "We gettin' tough" "Hooking up with the real It's the real that's becoming redefined" "Drew a line in the sand We 're just crossing it" "I'm a father but not cos of sperm only" "Used to be a phooey Never had a way of learning" "Raising children, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Teach the village, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Cook the dinner, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "House cleaning, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Diaper changing, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Bill paying', I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Know what I'm sayin', I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Legacy, the root of the tree" "MAN SINGS" "Get up, stand up, get out We can all" "We must do our stuff, c'mon" "Legacy, the root of the tree" "Get up, stand up, get out" "We can all We must do our stuff, c'mon" "Come on" "MAN SINGS" "We've demonised men - men really are considered brutish and hairy and unemotional and aggressive and loud and smelly." "And this big, hairy thing between their legs." "That is seriously present..." "in a lot of current thinking." "This is a disgrace." "This truly is a disgrace," "Where you view a man as a suspicious being." "Men in general are a protector." "We have seen a complete perversity - a complete change of what men are and what they're supposed to." "We've almost lost our reason with regard to it." "The archetype of the man basically being in... sort of in charge of the material realm and the woman being more in charge of the emotional, psychological and spiritual realm, actually works quite beautifully." "We made a mistake." "We thought... that liberation meant that we were liberated to go out and be like men." "And we sacrificed some very feminine aspects of ourselves in the name of Feminism." "We came out with a generation of hard women and soft men." "It didn't work for anybody." "Women should only learn from men if they have something worth teaching." "There are so many arseholes." "Maybe there's no point." "The man is the head of the woman." "Christ is the head of the man, the Bible says, and God is the head of Christ." "So there is a definite order of society." "If the modern ideal of turning the order of society upside down could work, even if Feminism could work - and I will admit there are a lot of women who are more intelligent than a lot of men " "but God has put an order in society and if God allowed man to turn that order upside down, then man could turn to God and say, "Yeah, you wrote in your Bible" ""how the order of society was supposed to be," ""but we've done it totally the opposite and it's working so much better."" "And the Bible says God will not be mocked." "And so God will wipe out civilisation if he has to, to maintain the order of society." "We believe that women are equal, even to us, to the men." "And, um... but there is just a little point that is saying that the control should be with the man." "The control of everything." "Especially on leadership." "Leadership should be on the man's hand." "while the woman should follow, but that doesn't mean that she is following without knowing what is going on." "When two people get married, they become one body." "One should never reject the other, any time they want." "If a woman doesn't want to have sex, and her husband forces her to have sex with him, this is what you call in England raping a woman." "No - that's my first time to hear this idea." "And this could never happen in Africa here." "We always think that your wife is your wife, any time you need your wife sexually, she cannot object to it, this is why she's here." "I love only my wife." "I love only her." "So I love her so much but when she say to me no sex, I feel sad." "Sometimes, according to our culture," "I start to hit her." ""You should come to me."" "But in our culture, I can..." "I can hit her by stick," "I can say her, "Go out from my home."" "(Woman) I think the best situation of a woman is to be a widow." "It's the best state of a woman in life." "Oh, what a relief to wake up in the morning and not to find a man lying next to you, bothering you and snoring." "New, women feel they can complete themselves with themselves," "I mean, they can have a complete life without..." "They don't need another human, especially a man!" "In our culture, for a young boy to become a man we have they call a rite of passage, which is a psychological step that young men need." "So many men don't know that, so they remain kids." "I hear so many young women saying they have trouble finding a mate, a partner, because these young men can hold a job and do good things with the computer, but they have no life experiences then." "Inside, they're... empty." "THEY SING" "Men have to get out of the attitude of using and abusing women as objects and get into the experience of veneration and worshipping them." "And we're just not used to it." "We've been raping and killing them for thousands of years." "Women have so much power over men." "Men just don't admit it." "Part of it is just breaking the denial of how powerful sex is over us, how powerful pornography is, and coming to terms with it and taking that energy and turning it into art." "Sing, dance, write a poem." "Stare in your lover's eyes." "I mean, sex is life." "It is the life force." "Woman!" "Hey, you, come here" "I want it" "Ladies and gentlemen..." "Especially the gentlemen..." "This day that never ends" "All day in the courtyard and the kitchen" "Or at the dining table" "Hey..." "Si..." "Mm-hmm." "Ah-ha, ah-ha..." "Si..." "Clean the house and get in the kitchen" "Dress my life with a woman's skin" "Come here and cuddle me my dear" "Come here, I want to see you" "I need your woman's skin" "Let's talk about my wife." "She sings that song, you know." "Oh, you cute one, you" "Forget all the tiredness" "I put my little shorts on and we go to bed and we play our little game." "I say, "Peek-a-boo!"" "and she says, "Come here for a ride, then!"" "Here I come to see you" "To see you again, to possess you To desire you again" "Hey, woman I come here to beg you" "I am coming looking for you" "So you can forgive me" "And I can tell you once more" "That I came here to look for you!" "Staring at the river, staring at you" "Give you my life, dying of thirst" "Ain't nothing wrong with this beat now" "Ain't nothing wrong with my boobs" "Ain't nothing wrong with me" " Aya la" " Ya-la" "C'mon, get up, stand up" "Get out, we can all We must all do our stuff, c'mon" " Africa" " C'mon" "The woman Africa" " Hey-hey!" "Hey hey, Mama" " Ya la" "Hey hey, Mama, oh!" "Get up, stand up, get out We can all" "We must do our stuff" "Nothing's wrong" "With me" "Get up, stand up, get out" "We can all, we must do our stuff" "C'mon, get up" "Nothing's wrong with me" "THEY SING" "I mean, sex is really my favourite thing." "I'd really rather have sex than talk to you." "Or drink tea, or just about do anything." "OK?" "Hey, hey, mama" "ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYS" "SINGING" "WHISTLING" "I believe that God has created a void in every man." "And the only thing that can fill that void is really God Himself." "And when men don't find God, they start looking to fill the void everywhere else." "Some will do it with drugs, some will do it with alcohol, some with sex, some will do it with personal achievement, some will become workaholics." "So that's what it is - man is trying to find satisfaction." "And he's either going to find it in God, or he's going to search for it in vain in things." "Addictions arise in the absence of being in touch with the essential aliveness that you are, that you need to substitute." ""I need to smoke."" "INHALES DEEPLY" "Or an addictive eater..." "There's enormous need behind it, "I need it, I need it."" "Or sex, you can see how close they all are." "BREATHES HEAVILY" "You want to take it, take something in." "Because I'm not fulfilled." "I need to add more to me." "Who I think I am, myself." "More experience, more knowledge, more suffering." "I need more, more drama." "I need more relationships." "More possessions, more time." "HE SINGS" "That there is going to be enough to make us happy in this world, is one of the basic illusions that we..." "that carries us through life." "We're born hungry on every level." "We're hungry for everything." "All our senses are hungry for input." "When you don't get enough, you think that there is enough somewhere." "And... until you get enough and realise that it isn't enough and it'll keep coming back, you... you keep dreaming that romantic image, that this will be enough." "This relationship, this car, this thing, that..." "You know." "Cos... wanting doesn't stop." "No matter how much you get." "All I want is" "What I want is What I get is" "Once I get it Did I get it" "Uh..." "No..." "Keep it going on." "One, two, yo, yo." "All I want is What I want is" "What I get is..." "No." "Yo, what I want is surface What I need is something deeper" "Lost culture rap with plastic features" "Some vulture came and piqued my interest" "Brochures that promise the world, no secrets" "But what's delivered delivers me no different" "But what's delivered delivers me no different" "But what's delivered delivers me no different..." "PHRASE LOOPS AND ECHOES AWAY" "Oh!" "HE RAPS" "In the West, we kind of like live as if we're supposed to be, all of us, kings." "All the time." "And all have everything we want." "And when we don't, there's something wrong with us." "And we get angry, and, you know..." "We take our suffering so personally." ""How could this happen to me?" "!"" "HE SINGS" "If you put up a fight, then they'll jail ya" "They sell broken dreams that can't help ya" "We want the food, the clothing and the shelter" "They say keep working the cards that they dealt ya" "And if you stand up and fight, then they'll jail ya" "They sell broken dreams that can't help..." "In money's ongoing crusade to replace intimacy, poverty is a manifestation of, er... the inability to participate." "And that's my biggest complaint about poverty, is that it reduces me to a spectator position." "And I want to participate." "I always feel, in these puritan cities that I've been dwelling in, they're all just living casinos, demanding gambling, and I never have chips." "And I hate it, I hate not having chips!" "It's like money is participation in a situation like this." "What I need is something different..." "Everybody wants to behave just like an American." "It's amazing." "It's amazing to me." "I don't think they are always happy people there." "I don't think they are." "They should be unhappy." "Because of what's happening in the community there." "It's not enough to have money to be happy." "Money doesn't make people happy." "It is... peace of mind, you have." "And I will be surprised if you have peace of mind." "Because there is no family." "Individualistic life." "Everybody's running after money." "We have no time to sit down, talk peacefully, be friends." "It's a disaster." "SHE SINGS" "THEY SING IN UNISON" "Every death is an abrupt one Every cop is a corrupt one" "Without no cash in the trust fund" "Every cat with a gat wanna bust one" "Every guest wanna plus one" "Every tenement's a penitent" "So every tried man is innocent" "Time served should be the sentence spent" "Everybody wanna hit a lick" "Every one of y'all is gettin' pimped" "Every bank note is promissory" "Every broke muthafucka finna form a gang" "When we come, we take it" "Every mack wanna Cadillac" "Every roach is a resident" "Every truth ain't evident" "Every slave story, present tense" "Every uprise a consequence" "Every time it be somethin' sweet" "Every bank is a fuckin' thief" "Everybody better holler with me" "Every fiend need a dollar fifty" "Every crime that I did was petty" "Every criminal is rich already" "Every landlord got a complex" "Every single is a bomb threat" "Every self-out, may ya hate my verse" "Everybody, they gonna get it first" "Every broke muthafucka finna form a gang" "When we come, we takin' everything" "We'll never know..." "Uh..." "Sorry, I got caught up looking at my hair in the thing." "It looked like it was messed up." "One more time." "We want the food, the clothing and the shelter" "We want the food, the clothing and the shelter" "We want the food, the clothing and the shelter" "They sell broken dreams that can't help us" "They sell broken dreams that can't help us..." "You don't need to have all that." "You'll be happy." "One day, you might be an entrepreneur, you might be an investor, you might be somebody that... that..." "that know how to... know how to love the money, achieve a right goal, to go forward and make it happen for yourself." "I mean, I'm all right." "Y'all go ahead, do what you gotta do." "I'm happy." "HE SINGS" "SINGING JUMPS AND SCRATCHES" "MUSIC FADES AWAY" "What have you found there?" "CHILD CRIES" "Why are you crying?" "It bit me." "How long does it hurt for?" "We get sick after being bitten." "HE SINGS" "Everyone who comes here makes the same mistake." "We are given nothing." "They promise us things but when they leave, they are done with filming the pygmies and that's the end." "He is filming the old woman who is peeling her vegetables in the kitchen." "In the end, he is the one who gets the money." "And even now, I'm losing out." "My children and my grandchildren will not see their grandma's face on TV." "You give us 100,000 francs right now!" "WOMAN SINGS" "HE CALLS" "THEY RESPOND" "The things that you film now, that you come and do... we never benefit." "We never see the results of these things." "I haven't got much to say, but we shall see what you are going to do." "If you are going to rob from us, then you will rob from us." "If you are not going to rob from us, we shall see." "THEY SING" "HE SINGS" "SINGING CONTINUES" "ALL SING IN UNISON" "HE SINGS" "We have people coming to see us, with their babble, talking bullshit, like "Give us your image, so we can do this, we can do that..."" "We are tired of this thing." "You know, we are poor." "We are counting on you." "We are counting on your help, with these images." "Mohino!" "Soon, there won't be any images to take, they will disappear." "We are going away, all of us." "The journey is over." "It's finished, good night, it's over." "Mohino!" "HE SINGS" "HE CALLS" "MEN RESPOND" "HE SINGS" "MEN JOIN IN SINGING" "Merci beaucoup." "OK." "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "HE BEATBOXES" "I guess it's because we get bombarded and bombarded and bombarded with the images so many times that our brain loses the ability to react to them." "You know, it could be that the pace of the world is blocking out that still small voice of God." "Everybody's looking for God in the bombardment..." "Earthquakes end." "Storms come to an end." "The media never shuts off." "They gave us the Bible, they gave us the Qur'an, they gave us the Talmud." "They give us daily newspapers, the Six O'Clock News, pronouncements by politicians, government policies, advertising, and none of it bears much resemblance at all to what's really going on in the universe." "CHIRRUPING" "And when's the last time you heard anyone complain?" "TV is an emanation of the triumph of the blasé." "I want to say, I think it's a disgrace." "How can the blasé be triumphing so?" "They can't possibly have a good army." "I mean, they're blasé!" "They're not known for their gung-ho." "But they're kicking ass right now." "The blasé are kicking ass." "I could see how a blasé saint could be a good thing, but to have blasé as the status quo, for everybody?" "That's a supreme bummer." "That's a gigantic psychological limitation." "I used to talk more than I used to listen" "Now I reverse my position" "Now I can strike with precision those on a mission" "And those who love me" "The dissing of those who seem to suppose they govern me" "The unpretty, the ugly the unlovely can" "No longer hope to escape discovery" "Cos all of them lack subtlety and" "None of them have no equality Free them" "For their philosophy of just me, me, me" "Corning like a cancer upon we society" "Can no such thing cos them too greedy" "Communicating lively but without a sound" "This is what makes my world go round" "Communicating lively but without a sound" "This is what makes my world go round" "Makes my world go round" "You are dominated by the corporate powers." "They never leave you alone." "They are with you in the bedroom, so you are never alone, so there is no choices." "You think you choose, but you do not choose." "The cruel way to manipulate people is by creating needs based on their fears." "They do a research where they find out how many women are afraid of wrinkles." "Again, fear is the whole concept." "If a woman says," ""I don't want my husband to realise I have a new wrinkle", that's what they call an "insight"." "So they take that insight and put it in the commercial." "Some show a woman applying some face cream." "The husband comes, kisses her and she is happy because he doesn't see her wrinkles." "There are very few advertising campaigns that really touch a woman's heart." "The principle is, to not let a woman feel what she's got inside, it's like, "let's wrap her up in paper"" "so she can't even touch herself." "Basically it is separating a woman from her inner self, from her heart, so we can keep her away from her power." "Why?" "Because otherwise she won't believe any of the commercials." "THEY SING" "We have huge propaganda systems." "The public relations industry is fundamentally a propaganda system." "It's an enormous industry, developed first in Britain and the United States." "These are the two countries that were most free and democratic, and that's where you need a propaganda system, because there, you can't control people by forcing anyone." "So you have to control their beliefs and attitudes." "This is very conscious." "The core of democracy is the engineering of consent, and you're directed by the educational system, by the media, to have the aspiration of becoming a millionaire." "And then, if you don't quite make it, you didn't meet your aspiration." "But there are other values." "You know, there's another value to say," ""OK, I won't be a millionaire, but I'll help people who really need help."" "You don't have to go to Ethiopia to find this." "You can do it right in the United States." "I open myself completely to you" "My intention is the deepest true, true love" "I open myself completely to you" "My intention is the deepest true, true love" "How can I be a better lover to you?" "How can I be a better brother to you?" "How can I be a better father to you?" "How can I be a better friend to you?" "How can I be" "How can I be, be, be, be, be, be" "Leave a message, here's my message" "Calling on the phone, calling on the e-mail" "Calling on the phone, calling on the pager - can you hear me?" "Be, be, be" "Can you hear me, yeah" "How can I be a better sister to you?" "How can I be a better human?" "Human, human..." "There'll be a dozen letters from young people in Canada and the United States and England and so on, saying," ""I don't like what's going on." "What can I do?"" "Interestingly, I never get that question from people in poor countries." "They don't ask me what they should do." "They tell me what they're doing." "It's only in the wealthy, privileged sectors that people have no idea what to do." "Elsewhere, they do things." "And that's part of our education and indoctrination, to make you feel there is nothing you can do." "And it has to really be imposed strenuously in the richer and more powerful countries cos you can do a lot." "In fact, you can do anything." "How can I communicate if I can't communicate with myself" "If I can't communicate with the world" "Full communication" "Age information Truth always changing" "Soul-free occasions" "So many ways to say things" "Muted silent movies, plays Nothing comes out, man" "When scared, one is shy Nothing comes out, man" "Paralysed on evil Glued to sofa, watching people" "Fabled tower Babel Hamper communications" "I really really dearly wanna be better See things clearly" "There nearly, but just want Please help me take out my phone" "Don't wanna wait, wanna lift up more Forever grateful lions roar" "Forever grateful, I am your Future husband, future wife" "Future friend, future life Future truth changing" "Realise the amazing We're better off communicating..." "How do I find peace of mind?" "How do I find that place inside of me" "Where I can stop listening to this inner noise and start really listening?" "Being in tune with my authentic voice..." "You have all of this chatter that you have to kind of clear out - your parents, your aunts, your grandmomma's voice, everybody's voices in your head." "You are the problem..." "It's the Greek chorus thing, isn't it?" "You are a twat..." "VOICES RUN OVER THE TOP OF EACH OTHER" "Someone who's trying to look well." "See, there it goes again..." "He's taking over my mouth, he's taking over Intense mental masturbation..." "Stop - pump the breaks." "So it's just a... click - switch in the internal tape." "And... weeding out all that external and historical static." "THEY BEATBOX" "There's no way out." "We are all stuck in our minds." "Everybody!" "HE CLUCKS LIKE A CHICKEN" "I think one of the common misunderstandings about meditation is that you empty your mind and become very still, and there is this void." "Actually, what happens when you sit in meditation is you feel very, very uncomfortable." "Your mind's going crazy." "It's trapped in a cage and wants to get out, and you don't want to be there." "You want to be down the pub or watching television or anything." "But you don't want to be there, looking at this wall." "So it is uncomfortable, and it should be uncomfortable." "That's the process." "It's your ability to stay with that, to begin to explore a very simple question - Why is it uncomfortable?" "Why is it so uncomfortable to be still?" "To appreciate the present moment, there needs to be a gap in the stream of compulsive noise making, which is called thinking, most of which is unnecessary." "Some of it is useful, but most of it actually interferes with the smooth flow of life." "It creates so much suffering, so many problems that actually have no existence here, now." "Part of the madness is to live as if the future were more important than the present moment, which is how most people live." "Completely insane, so you miss the aliveness of life for some projected future aliveness or fulfillment." "There is no future, there is only this - the present moment." "Stillness is already here." "It's an essential part of who you are." "And all you need to do is get in touch with that." ""How do I get in touch with that?"" "The easiest way is to become friendly with the present moment." "Even if the present moment is noisy, you become friendly with the noise of the present moment, and then there's a background of stillness." "Can you sense that you are now?" "This is it." "This is it!" "It's never..." "It's always going to be this." "And this is... who you are." "I am..." "And to sense that is joyful." "And that joy is not through anything external." "It's inherent." "MAN SINGS" "I wonder how can I get to know you better" "How can I, how can I" " How can I be a better friend to you?" " How can I, how can I" "I wonder how can I get to know you better" "How can I be a better friend for you?" " I wonder how can I" "How can I, how can I" "How can I be a better friend for you?" "Communicating" "You never say die" "You make me wanna be a better guy" "I wonder why?" "The human being is great." "It is a great..." "You are good." "You know, this is important to get your basic goodness and stop beating yourself up." "We have this peculiar shame about ourselves." "We have this contingent state of worrying about why we are and feeling bad about it." "We feel bad about the fact that we masturbate, that we shit, that we pee, that we have to have sex in order to reproduce." "What is to be ashamed of in that?" "I mean, how bizarre that the state that we are given - this is how you make another one of yourself, you put this penis into that vagina and you pump out lots of seed and another baby gets made." "And we spend our lives not allowing that to be on television, as if it is of something to be ashamed." "And words that describe it, like "fuck" or "cunt" or something are... are made taboo words, whereas "kill", "cruel", "torture" - we could use those words when just describing the traffic." "And they're not taboo words, but those are things we do of which we should be absolutely ashamed, completely ashamed." "SHE SINGS" "Am I alone?" "Cos I can hear you" "Yeah, yeah, yeah" "Yeah, I already been and gone" "You know, I know" "Together we are good" "I hear it now I hear it loud, I hear the sounds" "Tell it like you know" "Cos you know how it goes" "Feel them so, oh" "THEY SING" "I think that the light and dark are like these amazing lovers." "And that they need each other, they balance each other, they hold each other, they embrace each other." "At a certain point in the day, every day, they, like, touch each other as they pass." "And then there's this third force, the shadow, which is kind of the ego part, the part that separates the night from the dark and puts us in a position of thinking we have to be like a good girl" "or a good boy or a good person instead of being a real person and a vulnerable person." "We just don't trust." "We've been taught not to." "SHE SINGS" "SHE SINGS" "If you substitute content for happy, you'll probably find that you're happy." "Because we've associated happiness with laughing, you know, and smiling and throwing beach balls to your children and I've never been that guy." "So I thought, "Maybe I'm not happy."" "But if you switch it for content, the practice of contentment, you think, "Oh, God, I'm happy!" "I'm a happy man." "Oh, lucky me."" "And we've all got something to be thankful for." "Stop bitching." "Stop complaining." "Stop worrying." "Worrying is praying for what you don't want." "So stop praying for what you don't want and just let go." "The world is beautiful" "Placed here from the love of mama Passed down from my papa" "Voices from beyond, they call me" "Wisdom speaks loud from the corners" "And each step, it moves me on Isn't it the same for you?" "Isn't this the honest truth?" "The seeds for us The things that we should trust" "It's all about me It's all about you" "All the lies, all the truth The usual, the unusual" "The known, the unknown It's so beautiful" "But I pray, please lift me up and help me stand" "We're movin' on, just hand in hand" "But it always comes back down to me, to you, to you, to me" "Each step moves us on" "Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on" "Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "And now, I'm old, more than 80, I'm not afraid of death." "To be or not to be, that is the question." "If I could not move, if I could not walk freely if I could not hear, I could not see," "I couldn't read..." "What's the use of living?" "If to live is a delight, then live on." "Live as long as you can." "If to be is not good, maybe not to be, I think." "I'm not afraid of death." "What I be afraid of is old age." "Once you get old, you become weak, you become powerless, don't know what to do." "You can see people working - you know how to do it, but you cannot do it." "This is what I'm starting to feel now." "In my case, there's a fear of not doing all I want to do before dying, because I feel that I still have time." "There's still sun on the walls, you know?" "But it's a sun that's coming down." "It's given me a sense of loneliness I didn't have before." "A sense of solitude, a sense of... for instance, young people keep to themselves, so older people need to have friends more or less their age." "But then those friends die and disappear." "I keep losing people, all over the years, and young people have their own lives." "They have their own time, they don't have time for others, you know?" "Or they pay polite visits, polite conversation, "How are you?"" "But you see that they want to go." "I never think of myself wrinkled." "I never think that I have white hair." "But I do have a sensation sometimes when I glimpse myself at the mirror," "I say, "Oh..." "How ugly."" "And that... that is sad." "As you get old, it's a constant process of loss." "I've lost so many good friends." "One very recently, a dear, dear friend who died suddenly about a month ago." "And... that's very upsetting." "You lose... parents, of course, and if you're unfortunate, sometimes children." "Certainly friends." "And... power." "Your eyes, your ears, your ability to run." "To get up... it takes five minutes to get up off a chair and get moving." "Those are big losses." "And that's what we deal with, it's the loss." "I guess death is the final loss, you lose yourself." "WOMAN SINGS" "(Woman) I never put make-up." "I never dye my hair." "When I go to the States, my friends, they tell me, why don't you make a facelift, you know, to hide your wrinkles?" "Why should I hide my wrinkles?" "I am above 70." "I'm proud of my age." "I'm proud of my wrinkles." "But there's an inner something - which..." "I don't wanna think about what that might be." "A sense that life is not limitless and I'm sitting with people who are..." "stupidly wasting their time." "I get..." "I'm a better therapist because I'm impatient with that." "I don't excuse it, I say, well, you know, that's who they are." "No, my tendency is to shake them up and say wait - the days are getting shorter... wake up." "TAPPING" "Aging is going from a perceptual stance of ego to a perceptual stance of soul." "You become... wisdom." "You don't have to know anything." "You become wisdom." "You become compassionate." "And... you give up all the... striving." "Striving." "TAPPING" "SHE SINGS" "Anywhere where I drop the body, that's the perfect place." "The perfect place to die." "And we each..." "We each die... at our appointed time." "It's beautiful death." "If you can face death, you can look death in the eye then he will reward you by letting you live, really live every second that you have left." "WOMAN SINGS" "I watched the last of my friends who were diagnosed together, around the same time, die this summer." "To sit with them and know that they're dying and know what they're experiencing could be what you experience can be very frightening." "Especially when you suddenly see them looking like they've come out of a concentration camp." "It's just..." "There's really no way to put into words the loss that you feel for that." "The other side of that is that when your friend is dying and in bed and can't talk, and all you can do is wave your finger at each other, you know that there's a tremendous amount of love there." "Money doesn't count." "Possessions don't count." "SHE SINGS" "I'm beginning to find myself again." "Um..." "But I don't know what my survival will be and then I think, well, does anyone really know what their survival's gonna be?" "I'm gonna light this and just say a short prayer." "Because if you involve God in your work, you have to succeed." "There's no failure." "This'll open the spiritual eye in your brain." "OK?" "The spiritual eye." "Because most of our brain we never use, you know." "And that's the spiritual side that we should cultivate to serve God properly." "Haile Selassie." "The central dynamic... of history is not a conflict between God and Satan." "It's not a conflict between good and evil." "It's a conflict between ignorance and enlightenment." "It would be easy to become religious, I think." "It's an effort not to." "Not in an orthodox sense, but seriously, to suddenly just depart from all the sciences and decide that there is a completely unidentified set of quite detailed and purposeful forces that are driving us." "It's never random, there's nothing random in the universe." "At the most fundamental levels of nature, there's one single pattern in which you and I and our thoughts and our behaviours and our interactions are actually part of an overall pattern." "Adam was driven out of Eden because he ate the forbidden fruit." "It doesn't say God forbid..." "God forbade men to be wise." "How could I believe in one God who didn't want me to become wise?" "I pray, er... a lot." "You know, every day, and I talk to God like he is my very best mate." "It's great talking to someone when you know that the option for bullshit doesn't exist." "Well, there is a sense in which if a person is seeking God, most likely He will reveal Himself to them." "Now, will God reveal Himself to one person through Buddhism and another person through Christianity and another person through Sikhism or Hinduism?" "No." "Jesus Christ was very clear." "He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life" ""and no man comes under the Father but by me."" "You could be just the nicest person in the world." "I'm awfully sorry, but God doesn't really give a damn." "You see, because you're in the wrong religion." "You're not praying right." "You're not going to God in the right way." "So, all of your other niceties notwithstanding, you're going straight to hell." "And I am superior to you because I happened to chance upon the one true path, the right religion." "God loves me for that." "And God doesn't actually hate you necessarily, but nevertheless, He's going to punish you severely." "If we kill each other because of the texts, you know, the Koran or the Bible, etc." "But God is not a book." "God does not come out of the printing machine." "God is this human power inside you and me that fights for justice." "Yeah, every man has his own God." "Every man." "Now, beyond that, I don't know and nobody else do." "At least nobody can tell us." "What I do believe..." "There's something more powerful than me, but I don't know what it is and nobody else do." "So they made up a name, just like they made up the story about the Easter Bunny." "No rabbit in the world laid no egg." "It makes no sense to me, none of it." "You know, we're not very significant as creatures, you know." "It's over - it begins, it's over." "And for me, it's a blessed oblivion." "Nothing." "The absolute..." "thrill of nothing, you know." "The relief of nothing - gone, nothing." "Nothing." "Wow." "The more you can be an individual and be all of it at the same time you've got it made." "MAN SINGS" "SONG CONTINUES" "O, son and daughter of noble birth, now the time has come for you to seek a path." "As your breath stops visions will appear while on this journey from life into death." "If you should find yourself calling out, "O, Lord of great compassion," ""am I beautiful enough?" ""Am I wearing the right clothes?" ""Do I have the right connections to get me into where I'm going?"" "To these concerns, I say, "Do not worry."" "With this kiss, there are revelations tattooed upon our lips." "Revelations, worries that we read on account of this silent pact with recognition, where I'm beginning to see that we are slowly becoming healed." "I take a moment to myself so I can hear myself" "To feel myself, be real myself Life's addictions" "And afflictions cause abrasion from the fiction" "Sometimes it's easier to live in fiction" "I can run but I can't hide" "From the pains that reside down deep inside" "There is no pill that can be swallowed" "There is no guru that can be followed it shows a great opportunity for construction, for new ideas, for getting closer to the truth and moving past organised religion and make it real and deal with the chaos and the pain" "while you're "Ohmmming" to the universe." "That's heaven and hell right there." "We're walking every day with it." "You can change it." "You can live hell tomorrow and be in heaven today, right now." "It's nothing esoteric, out there." "It's right here." "There's no escaping from my own history" "Those that are hurt and those that hurt me" "I was dead for a million years before I was born" "I'll be dead for a million more after I'm gone" "So I live to give something that can live on" "Like the way you hum my song when the music's gone" "Like the warmth of the sand when the sun goes down" "I'm sitting with myself Nobody else is around" "You know, whether the Lord is Buddha, or Jesus, or Allah, or whatever, if he's a God he's gonna know you're a cool guy and you ain't gotta worry." "If there's a heaven, you're going." "Said, why must I feel like this today?" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "Sometimes we're faced with things that may block the sun from shining rays" "And fill my life with shades of grey" "Still I long to find a way" "So today, I pray for grace" "I pray for grace" "I pray for grace" "THEY SING" "I pray for grace" "THEY SING" "A long, long time I found the words to say" "How much I'm grateful for my life today" "Cos none of us can live a perfect life" "The kind that we see on Nick at night" "And sometimes we all just lose sight" "Of the pain that will guide us from dark into the light" "And we fall down, yes" "We get up" "And sometimes we just need a little bit of love" "To help to make it through another day" "Through the night into the light" "Into a Saturday" "So we were born and we're now waiting for the sun to raise" "If my head's a little foggy like I'm in a haze" "I remind myself That every little thing is gonna be OK" "OK Take a breath" "Slow down and say, yes" "I slow down and say" "I say, yes" "Yes, yes, yes, yes" "Stop." "Be here now." "Be in this moment." "THEY SING" "We live in a dream." "Our lives are fragile." "All of us have one foot on a banana peel and the other foot on the grave." "The surrender is not an option because you can only fight it so long." "It's a cork, floating in the middle of the ocean, screaming, "I must control it, I must have controll"" "It's hard to just let life happen." "SHE SINGS" "Make some noise!" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe?" "I believe in God" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe?" "I believe in God" "Amazing Grace How sweet the sound" "That saved a wretch like me I was born so lost" "But now am found" "Was blind but now I see" "Won 't you sing along with me, yeah" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe?" "I believe in God" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe?" "I believe in God" "Cos we're always past, future, past, future, past, future." "We keep missing the now." "And all we have is the now." "It's like they say in the Catholic Church - world without end!" "Right?" "It never stops!" "Why must I feel like this today?" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So every day, I pray for grace" "I'm a believer I believe in God" "Why must I feel like this today?" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So today, I pray for grace" "I'm a believer I believe in God" "I believe in God I pray for grace" "I'm a believer I pray for grace" "I'm a believer" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "So today, I pray for grace" "APPLAUSE" "The world is beautiful" "And each step, it moves me on." "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "WOMAN SPEAKS JAPANESE" "Welcome to Japan." "Tell us, how and why did you start 1 Giant Leap?" "You do how, I'll do why." " We're musicians." " The way we make our album is we take our backing tracks to the most inspiring musicians we can find." "We have a process." "What we do is we give them our beat." "They add their music and sing their song." "THEY SING" "This is from every country across the world, with people hearing in their headphones what the last person did." " Did I explain that well?" " I thought it was brilliant." " Ready?" " Rolling." "As well as going round the world looking for amazing musicians, we went to look for amazing, inspirational people to talk to about big subjects of life." "We are searching for truth in many countries." "God, sex." "Anger." "Love." "Freedom." "Conflict." "Madness." "Loneliness." "Death." "Anger." "Did I say anger twice?" "Ten years ago, you couldn't have done what we've done." "Basically, we record on a laptop, film on a DV camera, which means we can slip in kind of undetected." "It's like a kind of guerrilla way of making films." "You're not in control." "You're not in control of yourself or what you're gonna get." "You are in control..." "No, you're not in control." "It's like a string of consciousness." " You have all these beads of music." " Then you weave it all together..." "All the music and the philosophy, after a while, it just fits." "Ah-ah-ahhh..." "This is two guys going round the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "When we wove together all the diverse people, we ended up with 1 Giant Leap." "We were about to set off on a six-month journey of a lifetime, taking our laptops and recording equipment around the world." "It was a huge challenge to get everything ready and say goodbye to everyday life." "We didn't know what to expect on this trip." "We felt like explorers setting off on a unique treasure hunt." "There was no script to fall back on." "It was down to us to find the jewels." "Another day of intrepid outing around Cairo." "Cairo." "Aaaargh!" "We're doing oud, oud, oud today." "He's a funky oud player." "Play me...er..." "HE PLAYS THE OUD" "Fantastic." "OK." "So, psychedelic overdub, number one." "Everything starts with a simple riff, picked up by musicians around the world." "From the funky oud in Egypt to a voice in Brazil to a flute in India." "HE PLAYS THE FLUTE" "And the theme for this track - how come it's so hard to find peace in the modern world?" "I guess it's because we get bombarded and bombarded and bombarded with the images so many times that our brain loses the ability to react to them." "Earthquakes end." "Storms come to an end." "The media never shuts off." "You can't get away from it." "They give us daily newspapers, the Six O'Clock News, pronouncements by politicians, government policy, advertising, and none of it bears much resemblance at all to what's really going on in the universe." "CHIRRUPING" "And when's the last time you heard anyone complaining?" "I think that TV is an emanation of the system, a triumph of the blasé." "I want to say, I think it's a disgrace." "How can the blasé be triumphing so?" "They can't possibly have a good army." "I mean, they're blasé!" "They're not known for their gung-ho." "But they're kicking ass right now." "The blasé are kicking ass." "We're off to meet Maxi Jazz today, thank God." "We've been chasing him for a bit." "We're gonna film it in his studio." "He just sent me a text and said, "You come at half past one," ""I've got some chanting to finish."" "Not work to finish or books to read " ""I've got some chanting to finish." And then the text came through straight after that - "What am I saying?" "Come and do the chanting with me."" "Here it is, there we go, with the Buddha outside." "CHANTING" "As one of the world's top rappers and a practising Buddhist, we knew" "Maxi would have some great ideas to contribute on how to deal with the bombardment of the modern world." "Pity I didn't really know how to work his studio." "Urn, ba-deng, loan tell..." "Can you get the track up a bit?" "I love to watch..." "Sorry, I haven't got it." "You're not coming through." "Two, two, one." "I've got it now." "Your hips..." "Why you keep messing with it while me in the middle of me ting?" "I'm Sorry!" "I used to talk more than I used to listen, now I reverse my position" "Now I can strike with precision Those on a mission and those who love me" "That dissing at those who seem to suppose they govern me" "I'm pretty, they're ugly, they're unlovely" "Can no longer hope that this ain't discovery" "All of them lack subtlety" "And none of them have no real equality..." "The cruel way to manipulate people is by creating needs based on fears." "If a woman says:" ""I don't want my husband to see my wrinkles"" "that is called an "insight" which you can take and then put into a commercial." "We show the face cream, her husband kisses her, and she is happy because he didn't notice the wrinkles." "The idea is to keep the woman in a state of fear." "Why?" "Because otherwise she wouldn't believe any of the commercials." "SHE SINGS" "Here we are with Noam Chomsky, talking about the powers that be and how the masses are controlled and all the things he's an expert on." "I just feel incredibly grateful for this, and all the other times that we just get to hang with these people who don't really know who we are or what we're doing." "I got you this present." " Oh, thanks." " I know you don't have enough to read." "Sure, that's my real problem(!" ")" "THEY CONTINUE SINGING" "We have huge propaganda systems." "The public relations industry is fundamentally a propaganda system." "It's an enormous industry, developed first in Britain and the United States." "These are the two countries that were most free and democratic, and that's where you need a propaganda system, because there, you can't control people by forcing anyone." "So you have to control their beliefs and attitudes." "This is very conscious." "The core of democracy is the engineering of consent, and you're directed by the educational system, by the media, to have the aspiration of becoming a millionaire." "And then, if you don't quite make it, you didn't meet your aspiration." "But there are other values." "You know, there's another value to say," ""OK, I won't be a millionaire, but I'll help people who really need help."" "You don't have to go to Ethiopia to find this." "You can do it right in the United States." "I open myself" "Completely to you" "My intention is the deepest true, true love" "How can I be a better lover to you?" "How can I be a better brother to you?" "How can I be a better father to you?" "How can I be a better friend to you?" "How can I be How can I be, be, be, yeah, yeah, yeah" "How can I be a better sister to you?" "How can I be a better human?" "Human, human..." "There'll be a dozen letters from young people in Canada and the United States and England and so on, saying," ""I don't like what's going on." "What can I do?"" "Interestingly, I never get that question from people in poor countries." "They don't ask me what they should do." "They tell me what they're doing." "And that's part of our education and indoctrination, to make you feel there is nothing you can do." "But you can do a lot." "In fact, you can do anything." "In my community I can't communicate with myself" "I can't communicate with the world" "Full communication" "Age information Truth always changing" "Soul-free occasions" "So many ways to say things" "Mating silent movies, plays Nothing comes out, man" "When scared, one is shy Nothing comes out, man" "Paralysed on evil Glued to sofa, watching people" "Free lies, they amazing We better off communicating..." "By this time we got to India, every country started to look the same." "Everyone had a mobile phone, the same shops, the same adverts." "You could get a cappuccino on every corner." "How far do you have to go before you get away from the bombardment?" "We've come a very long way, on a very long train and a very long flight to visit the bowels of Bengal in West Bengal in Shanti Niketan." "I can say that as many times as you like, perfectly." "Shanti Niketan." "We think we've made a discovery cf a new cosmic law." "When people are really good and really friendly and really nice and they reach a certain attainment of being able to deal with the world and people around them, when they die, they're reincarnated and sent to Shanti Niketan." " Good morning." " Hi!" "Good morning." " Good morning." " Good morning." "We're on the edge." "There's electricity here and there's a few TVs and a couple of cars, but basically it's kind of still out there." "BOY INTRODUCES HIMSELF Hello." "Everybody's really happy." "I know that probably sounds really stupid, to say that people with nothing are happier, but I don't know, I think they might be." "When you get a lot, you get greedy and you want more and you're never happy." "Just experiment." "Just experiment." "THEY SING" "Stay, stay, stay!" "Please, please!" "Again, one more, while the spirit is here." "No problem." "Spirit now just coming." "LAUGHTER" "THEY SING" "I wonder How can I get to know you better?" " How can I, how can I?" " How can I be a better friend to you?" "I wonder How can I get to know you better?" "How can I, how can I?" " How can I be a better friend to you?" " How can I, how can I?" "I wonder How can I get to know you better?" " How can I, how can I?" " How can I be a better friend to you?" "Communicating" "You never say die" "You make me wanna be a better guy" "I wonder why?" ""Although we've been to some of the most beautiful places on the planet,"" ""far away from the bombardment of adverts and the noise"" ""of the modern world,"" ""the stress of being away and on tour was always still present."" "What a wanker!" ""Even when everything around is quiet, there's always the noise of thoughts"" ""rattling around your brain."" ""We dedicated the second part of our track to facing up to our demons" ""and finding peace within ourselves."" "We have to snap out of it." "We have to figure out, how do I find peace of mind?" "How do I find that place inside me, Where I can stop listening to this inner noise and start really listening?" "Today is a big day." "Today is the day we go to see Michael Stipe." "Do you think we're nervous?" "Do we appear nervous?" "It's a big day." ""What came out of our search for Michael was not only the song," ""but also an understanding of what was going into our film" ""as a reflection of what was going on for us at the time."" "I have seen trouble" "Trouble saw me" "I danced around" "The trouble tree" "I have seen beauty It staggered on me" "I have seen trouble Mmm..." "We're going to see the Bone Cycle, which is Gabrielle Roth's workshop." "She's got about 50 people in there." "We're going to do some shooting and some chatting and some jumping about." "He's going to be jumping about." "I'm gonna watch." " Are you excited?" " I'm so fucking excited." "We're doing the angry dance." "As soon as you get this started, just begin to let it go and begin to feel these different shapes." "I've held my heart so close to my chest" "You leave me wanting" "I can't forget now..." ""Suddenly, when I'm in there, I know Gabrielle really wants me to dance," ""cos I never do."" ""The more I'm in there and think about doing it, the more my bones" ""feel so heavy and I feel tired." "I feel drained of energy."" ""I felt so blocked, so blocked."" "It must prove that I'm just so not in my body at all." "Duncan got straight into it, though." "I can't fight, I can't fight" "And I know I'm in the fight" "I can't fight" "It's a feeling I can't fight Left holding nothing" "I want to feel" "That something, somewhere is real." "I sometimes look at all of them and think it would be wonderful to feel that free, to just really let it go." "(Man) Ultimately, it's your own mind which creates this fear and then your own mind tries to solve it." "And it is not possible to solve it at the level of the mind." "What was the reason of the workshop?" "I guess it's improvisation, for each person to find his own sound." "ULULATION" "And make music without instruments." "They try to..." "THEY CLICK THEIR TONGUES" "One of the big subjects of our film is communication." "We want to talk about the communication in here, inner communication." "Is your inner critic under control?" "We have all of this chatter that you have to clear out." "You know what I mean?" "Parents, your aunts, your grandmomma's voice, everybody's voice is in your head." "So it gets to a point where, where is my voice?" "We all have internal tapes, internal dialogue..." "Yeah, it's the Greek chorus thing, isn't it? "You are a twat"." "Right now, I could be talking, and the other part of me is going," ""Fuck off."" ""You don't believe that for a second." ""You just think it sounds good"." "This ego character is taking over my mouth." "He's taking over my phone, he's driving my car." "Stop." "Pump the brakes." "It's just a... switch in the internal tape, and weeding out all of that external and historical static." "THEY BEATBOX" "There's no way out." "We are all stuck in our minds." "(Man) Stop." "Be here now." "Be in this moment." "We're always past, future, past, future, past, future." "We keep missing the now." "And all we have is the now." "We visited a Sufi whirling dervish group, who use the Rumi-inspired spinning to quieten their minds and tune in to what they call the greater perfection." "I think one of the common misunderstandings about meditation is that there is the goal is that you empty your mind and become very still, and there is this void." "In a way, I don't like that idea." "I think that idea gives you the wrong angle." "Actually, what happens when you sit in meditation is that you feel very, very uncomfortable." "Your mind's going crazy." "It's trapped in a cage and wants to get out, and it's running around, looking for a way out, and you don't want to be there." "You want to be down the pub or watching television or doing anything." "But you don't want to be there, looking at this wall." "So it is uncomfortable, and it should be uncomfortable." "That's the process." "It's your ability to stay with that, to begin to explore a simple question - Why is it uncomfortable?" "Why is it so uncomfortable to be still?" "We are about to go and meet" "Eckhart Tolle, which is about the most exciting thing that's happened to me all week." ""Eckhart Tolle's the guy that wrote The Power of New." ""It's like a handbook to your brain."" " Hi." " Jamie." "Nice to meet you." ""It says, "There's your brain." "Look at yourself thinking." ""Look at how unhappy you're making yourself, you mad person"." ""And then it gives you ideas"" "on how to get your brain under control." "To appreciate the present moment, there needs to be a gap in the stream of compulsive noise making, which is called thinking, most of which is unnecessary." "Some of it is useful, but most of it actually interferes with the smooth flow of life." "It creates so much suffering, so many problems that actually have no existence here, now." "I have seen trouble" "Trouble saw me" "I danced around the trouble tree..." "Eckhart's words rang true for us both." "It was time to stop worrying and get on with making some music." "I'll play you a track." "And when there's something that works, say, "This is the kind of thing that will work"." "And we'll go on that one and maybe do some vocals and stuff, and build it." "OK." "OK." "When we hooked up with Will Young, to finish the song, we wanted to write a lyric that expressed the need to find a place of peace and feel the joy of the moment." "If you want my full attention" "Don't have to tiptoe round me" "Don't have to move so quietly The feeling now" "Is that the truth is changing Telling me lies that don't protect me" "It is only you you're slaving" "You don't know, you don't know" "Feeling now that the truth is changing..." "Love that." "That is nice." ""Stillness is already here." ""It's an essential part of who you are." ""And all you need to do is" ""get in touch with that."" ""How do I get in touch with that?"" "The easiest ways to become friendly with the present moment." "This is it." "This is it." "It's always going to be this." "And this is... who you are." "And to sense that is joyful." "And that joy is not through anything external." "It's inherent." "It's all right, all right" "You don't know, you don't know" "The feeling now is that the truth is changing..." "THEY SING" "VOICES MINGLE" "How can I be a better sister to you?" "How can I be a better human?" " Human, human" " Um-ba-deng" "The feeling now is that the truth is changing" "Communicating lively but without a sound" "This is what makes my world go round" "Makes my world go round" "THEY SING" "HE MAKES ANIMAL NOISES" "APPLAUSE" "The world is beautiful" "And each step, it moves me on." "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "WOMAN SPEAKS JAPANESE" "Welcome to Japan." "Tell us, how and Why did you start 1 Giant Leap?" "You do how, I'll do why." "We're musicians." "The way we make our album is we take our backing tracks to the most inspiring musicians we can find." "We have a process." "What we do is we give them our beat." "They add their music and sing their song." "TRADITIONAL SINGING" "This is from every country across the world, with people hearing in their headphones what the last person did." " Did I explain that well?" " I thought it was brilliant." " Ready?" " Rolling." "As well as going round the world looking for amazing musicians, we went to look for amazing, inspirational people to talk to about big subjects of life." "We are searching for truth in many countries." "God, sex." "Anger." "Love." "Freedom." "Conflict." "Madness." "Loneliness." "Death." "Anger." "Did I say anger twice?" "Ten years ago, you couldn't have done what we've done." "Basically, we record on a laptop, film on a DV camera, which means we can slip in kind of undetected." "It's like a kind of guerrilla way of making films." "You're not in control." "You're not in control of yourself and what you're gonna get." "You are in control..." "No, you're not in control." "It's like a string of consciousness." " You have all these beads of music." " Then you weave it all together." "All the music and the philosophy, after a while, it just fits." "Ah-ah-ahhh..." "This is two guys going round the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "When we wove together all the diverse people, we ended up with 1 Giant Leap." "The track starts with a simple riff that will echo around the world." "We took to Indian classical guitarist Vishwa Bhatt to see what he would inspire." "You want me to improvise this?" "Exactly, and then the track will come in behind you." "OK." "The theme for this track is how the experiences of childhood shape our behaviour as adults and the amazing power these memories have over us." "We must go into the places that scare us, into the darkness and make friends with our demons." "I remember when I was three or four years old, you know, going out in front of my house and, you know, having a huge poop, like, you know, right in front of the house on the sidewalk and then running inside excited," "bring my parents out, my morn and dad, and show them what I had done," "I was so excited about it." "And what was I...?" "I was whipped." "I was spanked and whipped for it." "And violently, you know..." ""Shame on you." "Look what you did."" "I'd asked what the bass sound was on a lot of Malian music and was told it was an instrument called n'bolon." "Goatskin?" " OK." " This is cow leather." "I showed them the riff that I was developing and once we'd tuned up, they listened to the recording in the headphones and added their sound." "We're seeing KD Lang today." "We love KD Lang." "She's a proper artist." "We wrote a letter and a week later, we got a letter back saying, "Would love to, I love 1 Giant Leap."" "We wanted to write this song around the line," ""Wounded in all the right places"." "It's like all the pain you've been through in your life has actually sculpted you into the uniquely beautiful person you are today." "Like, if you see a tree, right, that's been maimed, and all of a sudden it grows in a completely new direction and you think, "Oh" ""that tree's really beautiful because it's so different"" "and it's actually from this tremendous tragedy." "I can't kiss away these tears" "I wouldn't miss" "Your edges, your cliffs" "They are clay" "They are clues" "Gone astray" "Finding the ones we refuse" "And we breathe" "In the breeze" "And stir through the leaves that still fall" "On our feet" "Covering" "The lines we reveal" "We are wounded" "In all the right places" "The wound is... is the key, because we are all wounded by birth." "We are like, "Where am I?" "Who am I?" "Why am I here?"" "And so we're constantly recreating until we make peace with loneliness and with the shame." "Do you think that the use of antidepressants is getting out of control?" "Big problem I have is when they medicate teenagers and children." "When you medicate a kid, that kid's not learning how to deal with depression" "OT anger." "And then the kids find their way, of course, like other teenagers, into self-medication along with that medication, and that's a recipe for disaster." "Your kid's got a lot of energy, find something to do with the energy." "Get off your ass, Mom, Dad, and do something rather than just put a pill into their mouth." "...Left their marks on you" "Left you what was true" "See you perfectly..." "Can't think of anything to say." "It's amazing!" "DUNCAN LAUGHS" "HE SINGS" "Who am I to talk?" "Who am I to punish you?" "Come around and put you down?" "I fe-e-el..." "We've been to many places, me and Mr Catto." " This is a pilgrimage." " We've been to China, Japan, we've been to India, Africa..." "We've been to everywhere." "This is a pilgrimage." "We've come to see Daniel Lanois today, who produced a lot of our favourite albums ever." "Daniel immediately understood our treasure hunt." "I put the laptop into record and we just listened as he sat at his pedal steel guitar and took the track to a new level." "We could hear that there was an amazing vocal melody hiding somewhere within Daniel's surreal pedal steel chords." "We invited Scottish folk singer Eddi Reader to join us in finding it." "God!" " That's the second line right there." " Yeah." " Where is he?" " It says here where it's..." "Can he be bigger?" "Make Daniel bigger?" "!" "Not sure I can do that." "Are you my love?" "Are you my love" "From now on" "Evermore?" "We've been trained and conditioned to shutdown..." "our spontaneous responses our authentic and essential responses from a very early age." "You know, "Don't cry," "What's wrong?"" "Er, you know, "No, don't be scared."" "I mean, we're talked out of our feelings and shut down cos nobody knows how to communicate from an emotional field." "Childhood is tough." "Childhood is rough." "All the other kids on the playground are telling us what's wrong with us, and why we're not OK." "And the bad part about it is, when you're 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, you believe it, you don't have the strength to reject it and say, "That's not true."" "You take it all in and make it part of your truth." "When all is falling apart" "Apart..." "We've tried to turn all of the subjects of the things we reject" " On their head in this film." " Yes." " Like, um, we reject pain..." " Yes." "...we started with, and yet it does have a function," " You know." " Yes." "Emotional pain is the one that's hardest...to get rid of, because I think it's a self-inflicted wound." "I was abused by my father when I was younger, and I carried it around, I didn't tell anybody." "It's the weirdest thing, because you..." "It's one of those... er, events that makes you feel..." "It's a crime that makes you feel you committed it when you're the victim, because it isn't all pain, you know there is pleasure in it." "So you carry this around with you that you were part of the crime." "And then the last guilt is when your father dies, or the person dies, and you haven't confronted them about it." "And you think, well, time will heal it, but time doesn't heal it." "It actually gets worse." "When will I know?" "So secretly, we..." "Stewart Copeland thinks..." "There he is, up there." "He thinks we're coming to interview him, but secretly, we're bringing him the recording studio in case his high hat is available." "Jamie, why have you come?" "What can I give you of my knowledge?" "What can you bring me?" ""One of the amazing things about 1 Giant Leap" ""is that it gives me and Jamie a chance to meet our heroes."" " What a shame." " What, mike-wise?" "Yeah." "I've got one mike!" "We were both huge fans of The Police, so the idea that Stewart Copeland was gonna play on the track was very exciting." "Wounded" "In all the right places" "Outrageous!" "So here I am, our 1 Giant Leap intrepid reporter, up to my neck in, er, really hot water." "And, er, welcome to Iceland." ""The stark landscape of the mountains outside Reykjavik" ""is one of the most extreme places We've ever recorded in." "Perfect for Tuvan throat-singing group Huun Huur Tuu," "Whose horsehair violins and overtone singing are meant to be heard outside in the barren wilderness." "MAN SINGS" "We've been looking at the age-old problem of how our upbringing can shutdown our emotions and create a shadow side." "This is nothing new, though." "For a long, long time humans been walking around like a dog with a tail between their legs, apologising for being human beings." "And God don't want none of that, man." "God is proud and really happy of this creation." "We're not a mistake." "You know, whoever came up with that concept about the Original Sin, all that kind of stuff, that person's goofy." "You know?" "That's..." "They set you up to lose." "God says to Adam and Eve after they said, "We hid because we were naked and we were ashamed,"" "he said, "Who told you you were naked?"" ""Ooh, I'm naked, I have to cover myself..."" ""Who on earth told you there was such a thing as naked?"" "Who told you, in other words, to be ashamed of who you are?" "We feel bad about the fact that we masturbate, that we shit, that we pee, that we have to have sex in order to reproduce, as if it is of something to be ashamed." "And words that describe it, like "fuck" or "cunt" or something are... are made taboo words, whereas "kill", "cruel", "torture" - we could use those words when describing the traffic." "And they're not taboo words, but those are things we do of which we should be absolutely ashamed, completely ashamed." "HE SINGS" "We were driving through the mountains of Oaxaca with singer Lila Downs, trying to come up with ideas for a new song." "...Could make something up that's, um..." "There's this beautiful legend about, er... the warrior who kills the sun." "Lila's tragic love story inspired us and fitted the moment so perfectly that we just had to stop and improvise the song there and then." "LILA SINGS" "I think that the light and dark are, like, these amazing lovers and that they need each other, they balance each other, they hold each other, they embrace each other." "At a certain point in the day, every day, they, like, touch each other as they pass, you know?" "And then there's this third force, a shadow, the ego part, the part that separates the night from the dark and puts us in a position of thinking we have to be, like, a "good girl" or "good boy"" "or a "good person"" "instead of being a real person and a vulnerable person." "We just don't trust." "We've been taught not to." " So that would be just drummers first." " Yeah." " Have to really focus." " All right." " Really try and vibe them up..." " OK." "Now, let's do the business." "One of the things we often talk about is how, when somebody upsets you, it's old pain." "It's very rarely all that that person just annoyed you." "It's kind of triggered all the unprocessed times it happened." "Emotional pain that is not fully faced in the moment that it arises, the remnants of it become lodged in the body." "I call that the pain body that human beings carry inside." "And this is what causes overreactions," "Just an innocent comment that your partner makes to you could act as a trigger." "Once it's engaged in drama, it doesn't want the drama to end - it wants more." "It also goes into your mind so your thinking is fuelled by the old emotion, it feeds on every negative thought that it makes you have." "It loves negative thinking." "SHE SINGS" "Realise your own thought processes are creating suffering for yourself." "HE LAUGHS" "Fighting doesn't help." "What helps is becoming friendly with it." "That transforms it and it frees you from being its slave." "THEY SING" "Arrived in this beautiful village called Minvoul, right up on the Cameroon border, and they're doing that poly-rhythmic, poly-tonal yodelling." "Today it sounds really amazing." "THEY YODEL" "We invited Belgium singer Zap Mama to add lyrics to the track." "She grew up with the Pygmies in the Congo and we wanted to take her back to her African roots." "We wonderer what playing the recording we'd made of the Pygmies in Gabon would inspire her to write." "...Because I think if you can't be vulnerable then you can't really experience the connection with anything." "Woundable - you're allowing yourself to be open." " It's beautiful." "I agree totally." " So... put that in a song!" " What?" " What we just said." " Damn, you said a lot of words!" " Yeah, well...!" "Yo-yo-yo" "Oh-yo-yo-yo yo-yo..." "Am I alone, yeah-ah" "Cos I can hear you" "Yeah-eah-eah yeah" "I already been and gone" "You know, I know" "Together we all go..." "THEY YODEL AS SHE SINGS" "It was amazing listening to the sound grow, and pretty soon, the whole village had joined in." "The harmony was incredible, the sound coming from everywhere." "One of the Pygmies gave me his percussion belt. it was really heavy." "The Essex boy in me felt pretty stupid, but out there, I had to leave that all behind." "This really is as good as it gets." "PYGMIES SING" "WHISTLING" "Merci beaucoup!" "The human being is great." "You are good." "You know, this is important to get your basic goodness and stop beating yourself up." "Stop bitching." "Stop complaining." "Stop worrying." "Worrying is praying for what you don't want." "So stop praying for what you don't want and just let go." "The world is beautiful" "Placed here from the love of mama Passed down from my papa" "Voices from beyond, they call me" "Wisdom speaks loud from the corners" "And each step, it moves me on Isn't it the same for you?" "Isn't this the honest truth?" "The seeds for us The things that we should trust" "It's all about me It's all about you" "All the lies, all the truth The usual, the unusual" "The known, the unknown It's so beautiful" "But I pray, please lift me up and help me stand" "We're movin'on, just hand in hand" "But it always comes back down to me, to you" "To you, to me" "Each step move us on" "Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards" "Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards Still miles to go." "I feel as lonely as a penguin in Istanbul." "The world is beautiful" "And each step it moves me on" "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "WOMAN SPEAKS JAPANESE" "Welcome to Japan." "Tell us, how and why did you start 1 Giant Leap?" "You do how, I'll do why." "We're musicians." "The way we make our album is we take our backing tracks to the most inspiring musicians we can find." "We have a process." "We give them our beat." "They add their music and sing their song" "THEY SING" "This is from every country across the world, with people hearing in their headphones what the last person did." " Did I explain that well?" " I thought it was brilliant." " Ready?" " Rolling." "As well as going round the world looking for amazing musicians, we went to look for amazing, inspirational people to talk to about big subjects of life." "We are searching for truth in many countries." "God, sex." "Anger." "Love." "Freedom." "Conflict." "Madness." "Loneliness." "Death." "Anger." "Did I say anger twice?" "Ten years ago, you couldn't have done what we've done." "Basically, we record on a laptop, film on a DV camera, which means we can slip in kind of undetected." "It's like a kind of guerrilla way of making films." "You're not in control." "You're not in control of yourself or what you're gonna get." "You are in control..." "No, you're not in control." "It's like a string of consciousness." " You have all these beads of music." " Then you weave it all together..." "All the music and the philosophy, after a while, it just fits." "Ah-ah-ahhh..." "This is two guys going round the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "When we wove together all the diverse people, we ended up with 1 Giant Leap." "This piece started with a bass line, some chords and a simple melody rattling around my head." "I'd like you to play..." "da da da da da da da da da" "Da da da da da" "But really... like, sadly and sustained." "Da da da da da da da" "THEY LAUGH" "That's what we want." "Yes, bring it to life." "We weren't just looking for music on our treasure hunt, we were also gathering opinions from across the world." "The theme for this piece was the global battle of the sexes." "Women should only learn from men if they have something worth teaching." "There are so many arseholes." "Maybe there's no point." "I'm surrounded by children, the accordion player's here, and he's... just about to kick in." "We took the accordion we'd recorded in Brazil to Mali to add an African feel." "Get the idea?" "Ready?" "OK, jouez le..." "le batterie." "New we were ready to get some vocals." "So we tracked down Malian diva Oumou Sangare to persuade her to sing on the track." "That's her." " Don't mess it up." " Oh, don't." " No pressure." "It's only Oumou Sangare." " I know, I know." "If we muck it up, we muck it up." "It's only the most important singer in the country, the reason we flew here." "I thought you were my friend." "SHE SINGS" "How weird to be back in London." "We've come to see one of my favourite people in the whole universe, Stephen Fry." "Do you think men are more sexually driven than women?" "We are very sexually driven and I think, um, particularly people like me, gay men, are a very good demonstration of male sexuality." "Men just want to get their rocks off." "Women might claim they're as excited by the idea of sex as men are, but it's a manifest nonsense." "And for some bizarre reason, women don't want you to believe this." ""Oh, that's not true at all!" "I saw a waiter the other day," ""with nice buttocks, it made me quite juicy just thinking about it."" "The man would say, "Only the other day?" ""What about every fucking minute of every hour of every day?" "You just don't get it!" ""You don't get it, what it's like to have one of these in your bloody trousers." ""You've no idea what it's like!"" "And women don't." "Lucky for them." "Sexually, I think we all get excited by the animal." "To a sexually liberated woman a man who is violent, incorrect, inadequate and disgusting could be tremendously satisfying in bed but I doubt very much if she would marry him, whereas a man is much more stupid and will marry the one with the big tits." "I will cue you when the melody is coming." "I will start with this melody..." "Da da da da da, da dee da" "Yeah, exactly, yeah." "We're gonna record today with the Royal Air Force of Oman." "Traditional music branch." "1 Giant Leap meets the military..." "in Arabia." "HE WHISTLES" "I think we're gonna get something good." "Are we ready, gentlemen?" "THEY SING" "I must admit," "I kind of dress-woos I like the ladies to like the way I look." "You'd be surprised how many ladies like what I wear!" "I know!" "Agreed, brother, agreed." "I had an idea that maybe the idea of women covering themselves up keeps their protection from men as well." " Us men, we tend to...ogle at the ladies." " Yeah." "Women are very attractive." "And being attractive as they are, men are weak." "Men can be dangerous." "They can be evil." "And men sometimes, if they lose their mind, and the sexual desires are aroused, they are just like beasts, like animals." "We're going to interview two dominatrixes." "Would you say "dominatrices"?" "Hi there, it's Jamie." "Well, I think you wait half an hour, OK?" "And then you can call my mobile." "It's 5.20." "Did we not say 5.30?" "Don't hassle me, OK?" "Yeah, OK." "This is the way the dominating game begins, isn't it?" "I'm being dominated." "What I do is I travel around and I take music to people and it all adds together like a jigsaw." "It's all different people from Mali, Mexico, Brazil." "Everyone adds their bit and it kind of grows, and it's usually a lot of fun." "HE SIGHS" "Da da da da da da da da" "That's great." "I'm..." "I'm coming to the door now." "Apparently now we're ten minutes late." "We're ten minutes late." "Could you tell me why and how the male discipline is employed and what that's all about?" "Because the male is an animal, driven by its testosterone." "And this needs to be firmly controlled as a necessity to degradate in order to transcend its male, arrogant ego." "Most of the men, they are really more than willing to please the woman, just by telling him how she wants to be pleased and just by telling him, "Look at me, I'm a goddess!"" "I made a complete fool of myself last night." "I thought the gorgeous woman Duncan was hanging out with..." "She came to the gig, then we went to the party and I got really drunk." "It looked like it was going really well..." "And I really, really made a fool of myself." "Somehow he started talking to some other pretty girl..." "Actually, I was flirting with another girl." "Then..." "Oh!" "The crux of the story is that she walked past him and said in his ear as she left..." ""Never ring me again."" ""Don't ever call me again."" " I was so drunk..." " "Don't ever call me again" has power." "I couldn't even talk." ""Don't ever call me again." "Call other people all you like, but not me."" "I'm a nice guy, I'm not going to do it." ""Don't ever call me again."" "The great power women have over men is the sexual power." "Men become stupid in the face of that power." "Do people want to talk about and put down the prostitute, the he and the tramp, the whore, the slut, you know, that which people scowl and spit and snarl at?" "That energy is so powerful." "It's powerful, where men, like you said, go crazy." "They will empty out their wallet, their tongues will hang out of their mouth, they will spiral into another mental zone when they watch a woman dancing on a pole." "Now you tell me if that's not power." "Ain't nothin' wrong with this beat now" "Nothin' wrong with my shoes" "Nothin' wrong with my life" "Ain't nothin' wrong with my life Ain't nothin' wrong with my... feet" "Ain't nothin' wrong with my head Ain't nothin' wrong with me" "Ain't nothin' wrong with me Ain't nothin' wrong with me" "Women, for centuries, have been allowed into the cave or out of the cave... based on how they looked." "Even in this day and age, when they see their husbands walking out the door because the girl across the street is half as young and twice as lithe, what are they to obsess on if not their physical appearance?" "Their minds? "I've read as many books as you." "Why are you leaving my house?"" "Many women are sexy, like me." "When I open a magazine, it makes me depressed." "My butt's not like that." "I have pimples, I have stretch marks." "How come?" "You know, it's like..." "It's just not fair." "You look at a magazine and it depresses..." "I think fashion magazines depress women, you know, more than anything." "In the middle of an orgasm, do you think, "Am I having" ""too much flab around my middle?"" "I mean, when you're in an ecstatic place, and you look at your child's face and you're happy and you see your family around you, you don't think about that." "Hello, welcome to the car park." "And over here, we are doing music." "I'm just going to find you a beat that you can rap to." " OK." " I wanna hear about your plastic surgery." " My plastic rap." " Your plastic rap." "Rap, rap, rap rap" "Everybody understand Everybody better look" "Open up your hand, baby, open up a book" "What you want - bigger titties?" "What you want - a bigger booty?" "What you want - bigger lipsie?" "I got a big nose But I ain't gonna change it" "I'll change yours Gimme a little dough" "OK, you can look pretty Look in the magazines all over the city" "Hey, Mama" "Hey hey, Mama, oh!" "Hey, Mama" "Hey hey, Mama" "Hey hey, Mama" "Hey, Mama" "Hey hey, Mama" "Hey hey, Mama" "MAN SINGING" "Ooooh!" "We'd arranged to meet rapper Speech and his wife Yolande at the landmark blues club Tipitina's." "We wanted to get his angle on being a husband and a father in a modern world." "When you said raising children, I'm with it, I was expecting almost a list - cleaning the house, raise the children..." "which is about really being a man." "The man's gonna take my pass away, my man pass, when they hear this." "Speech is the traitor..." "They're thinkin' I'm goin' crazy!" "Raise the children, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Teach the village, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Cook the dinner, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "House cleaning, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Diaper changing, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Bill paying', I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "No I'm saying, I'm with it Surrendered and submitted" "Legacy, the root of the tree..." "We've demonised man." "Men really are considered brutish and hairy and unemotional and aggressive and loud and smelly." "And this big, hairy thing between their legs." "That is seriously present..." "in a lot of current thinking." "This is a disgrace." "This truly is a disgrace," "Where you view a man as a suspicious being." "Men, in general, are a protector." "We have seen a complete perversity, a complete change of what men are..." "and what they're supposed to." "We've almost lost our reason with regard to it." "The archetype of the man basically being sort of in charge of the material realm and the woman being more in charge of the emotional, psychological and spiritual realm actually works quite beautifully." "We made a mistake." "We thought... that liberation meant that we were liberated to go out and be like men." "And we sacrificed some very feminine aspects of ourselves in the name of Feminism. it came out with a generation of hard women and soft men." "It didn't work for anybody." "Get up, stand up, get out, we can all We must do our stuff, c'mon..." "The guy we're seeing today, Dr Ed Devries, is a proper Christian literalist preacher and he's going to have a very unique perspective on, um... the internal battles of life." "The man is the head of the woman." "Christ is the head of the man, the Bible says, and God is the head of Christ." "So there is a definite order of society." "Even if Feminism could work - and I will admit there are a lot of women who are more intelligent than a lot of men - but God has put an order in society and if God allowed man to turn that order upside down," "then man could turn to God and say, "Yeah, you wrote in your Bible" ""how the order of society was supposed to be," ""but we've done it totally the opposite and it's working so much better."" "And the Bible says God will not be mocked." "Women are equal, even to us, to the men." "And, um... but there is just a little point that is saying that the control should be with the man." "The control of everything." "When two people get married, they become one body." "One should never reject the other any time they want." "If a woman doesn't want to have sex, and her husband forces her to have sex with him, this is what you call in England "raping" a woman." "No, that's my first time to hear this idea." "And this can never happen in Africa here." "We always think that your wife is your wife." "Any time you need your wife sexually, she cannot object to it." "This is why she's here." "I think the best situation of a woman is to be a widow." "It's the best state of a woman in life." "Oh, what a relief to wake up in the morning and not to find a man lying next to you, bothering you and snoring." "New, women feel they have a complete life without another human, especially a man." "We went to meet native American singing group Ulali on the only remaining reservation in Oregon." "We've just offended the woman chief of this place," "Walking in with our big white shoes on and not introduced ourselves properly or brought any gifts." "She said, "The way you came in was very white." Anyway, we apologised." "I'm not white, I'm Jewish." "THEY SING" "Men have to get out of the attitude of using and abusing women as objects and get into the experience of veneration and worshipping them." "And we're just not used to it." "We've been raping and killing them for thousands of years." "Women have so much power over men." "Men just don't admit it." "Part of it is just breaking the denial of how powerful sex is over us, how powerful pornography is, and coming to terms with it and taking that energy and turning it into art." "Sing, dance, write a poem." "Stare in your lover's eyes." "I mean, sex is life." "It is the life force." "We took our track to Mexican fandango group Chuchumbe." "The first time I heard the word "fandango"" "I had no idea what it was." "It's a style of music, a dance, but most of all, an excuse for a party." "We set about to write a song to perform that night." "It's about the relationship between the men and the women." "The music is very light." "To have a song with a smile, it should have a big smile." "There's a couple of things I'd like to try." "This man was singing..." "La la la la la la, la la la la la and he's sounding really good." "HE SINGS" "We know the lyrics, We've translated Oumou's." "Girls can't sit around, they've got to kind of empower themselves." "So these guys are going to answer that in a Mexican style." "Woman!" "Hey, you, come here" "I want it" "Ladies and gentlemen, especially the gentlemen..." "Clean the house and get in the kitchen" "Dress my life with a woman's skin" "Come here and cuddle me my dear" "Come here, I want to see you" "I need your woman's skin" "Let's talk about my wife." "She takes me in her arms and it's all over!" "We go to bed and we play our little game." "I say, "Peek-a-boo!" and she says, "Come here for a ride!"" "Here I come to see you" "To see you again, to possess you To desire you again" "Hey, woman I come here to beg you" "I am coming looking for you" "So you can forgive me" "And I can tell you once more" "That I came here to look for you!" "Ain't nothin' wrong with this beat now" "Ain't nothin' wrong with my boobs" "Ain't nothin' wrong with me" " Aya la" " Ya la" "C'mon, get up, stand up, get out" "We can all We must do our stuff, c'mon" " Africa" " C'mon" "The woman Africa" " Hey hey, Mama" " Ya la" "Hey hey, Mama, oh!" "Get up, stand up, get out We can all" "We must do our stuff" "Nothing's wrong" "With me" "Get up, stand up, get out" "We can all, we must do our stuff" "C'mon, get up" "Nothing's wrong with me" "Save your soul." "I mean, sex is really my favourite thing." "I'd really rather have sex than talk to you." "Or drink tea, or just about do anything." "Hey, mama" "The world is beautiful" "And each step it moves me on" "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "WOMAN SPEAKS JAPANESE" "Welcome to Japan." "Tell us, how and why did you start 1 Giant Leap?" "You do how, I'll do why." "We're musicians." "The way we make our album is we take our backing tracks to the most inspiring musicians we can find." "We have a process." "We give them our beat." "They add their music and sing their song." "THEY SING" "This is from every country across the world, with people hearing in their headphones what the last person did." " Did I explain that well?" " I thought it was brilliant." " Ready?" " Rolling." "As well as going round the world looking for amazing musicians, we went to look for amazing, inspirational people to talk to about big subjects of life." "We are searching for truth in many countries." "God, sex." "Anger." "Love." "Freedom." "Conflict." "Madness." "Loneliness." "Death." "Anger." "Did I say anger twice?" "Ten years ago, you couldn't have done what we've done." "Basically, we record on a laptop, film on a DV camera, which means we can slip in kind of undetected." "It's like a kind of guerrilla way of making films." "You're not in control." "You're not in control of yourself or what you're gonna get." "You are in control..." "No, you're not in control." "It's like a string of consciousness." " You have all these beads of music." " Then you weave it all together..." "All the music and the philosophy, after a while, it just fits." "Ah-ah-ahhh..." "This is two guys going round the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "When we wove together all the diverse people, we ended up with 1 Giant Leap." "We wanted to write a love song with a twist." "Love isn't all flowers and fluffy nonsense." "We wanted to find out about the realities of relationships." "Romantic ideas have gotten us into an awful lot of trouble." "It's the big expectation of the other person." ""He's gonna make me happy." ""She's gonna make me happy."" "No way is that a possibility." "Nobody can make you happy." "To get the track rocking, we went into a favela in Rio to record one of Brazil's top samba schools." "He's got to have headphones, this one." "Yeah, you can have them!" "Everyone's miked up, everyone's got headphones." "It's just been so nearly raining and you can feel the odd drop." "LAUGHTER" " OK?" " Are you ready?" "Standby..." "Next step was to add some harmony to the samba beat." "First, an electric guitar, courtesy of Baba Sal in Bamako." "We left the city of Bamako and headed off into the villages in search of the roots of Mali music." "Just what the track needed - two djelin'gonis." "I knew that all along." "Our love song brought about some incredible collaborations from across the world." "We played the Brazilian groove mixed with the African guitars to rapper Maxi Jazz." "He added another twist to the concept of love." "My name is Ego I'll be with you till your last breath" "Right here's a small list" "Of all the things that scare me to death" "I can't stand things that I can't understand" "And I especially hate things I can't command" "I don't like the unfamiliar And I've got to be first" "But I tell you, without me You could never be a Mandela" "Who would know what Mohammad Ali was at" "Most people confuse love and need." "What they really mean when they say "I love you"" "is that "I need you."" "And there's probably stuff over here that you need without which you imagine you can't be happy, so I tell you what," "I'll trade you." "On Valentine's Day, we can give each other wonderful cards " ""My darling, my dearest..." ""I trade you very much."" "Btu when the trade becomes unequal, our love relationship is over." "I'm here and I wanna go" "Something tells me there's a struggle" "How'm I gonna say goodbye now?" "I know you won't like it" "I find the biggest challenge today in relationships generally is that everybody suddenly feels empowered to have their needs met." "And there is the concept that relationships are in some way hard work." "What happened to the simple twinkle?" "Somebody that just made you smile when you first looked at her, and... and she smiled back?" "There's just a little twinkle which comes to you with less than the force of a snowflake hitting the ground." "It's not trying to get something from someone." "But it is participating in a wider field with each other." "It's like, um two fish..." "They have a relationship because of the ocean." "New they can't get water from each other." "But they can swim in it together." "Individuals can't get love from each other, that's the myth, the fiction." "That's the appearance - but they can swim in it together." "I hear the whip-poor-will cry" "I see the blue heron fly" "Over sugar hills" "Snowy white, big blue siren in the night" "Come with me, my baby" "We go under the stormy..." "You are the drop" "You are the sea" "You are the kindness" "You are the cruelty" "You are the cooked" "You are the raw" "Don't leave me raw like this" "Under the stormy sky" "Do you know which way Michael Franti's studio is?" " I think it's that way." " Can you remember which way?" " This way." " You can?" "Rapper Radioactive twisted the groove and hip-hop met samba." "I've been away for too long..." "Michael followed up on Maxi's lyric." "Love is not about relying on someone else to make you happy." "Let's go from the head." "I been away for a long time, see" "Waiting for someone to rescue me" "One woman came with a gift for me" ""Go find yourself, then come find me"" "I've been away" "For too long, you see" "I've been away" "Till you came for me." "It's like when I'm not in a relationship," "I don't have any trouble with relationships!" "HE LAUGHS" "Right - and you don't get to grow!" "You don't get to, uh, uh...flex those love muscles and those forgiveness muscles and compassion muscles and generosity muscles... unless you're in a relationship." "Everything else is theory." "The people in front of me" "They come and go" "If you close your eyes" "OH, BOBBINS!" "She sings da da da da... with Michael Franti..." "I've been away..." "Try it with the track." "It's difficult." "It's a difficult one." "I've been away" "I'm comin' home now" "I'm here and I wanna go" "I've been away" "Leave a light on for me" "Cos I'm comin' home" "My heart is sad" "To leave Sugar Town" "Come with me, my baby" "We go under the stormy sky" "Jean-Paul, il joue le violon le bel accordeon" "Dense avec moi, babe" "We go under the stormy sky" "That's enough!" "LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE" " Wow, thank you!" " OK." " Wow!" " That wore me out!" "I believe that a marriage is like any other business." "That you can't just start a business and not nurture it and hope like hell that it's going to work on its own momentum because it started with a great idea." "Ideas don't make businesses work." "Hard work makes businesses work." "We've got a meeting in the Sony building with the Yoshida Brothers who play shamisen." "It's a very traditional kind of twangy kinda sound and they're marketed totally like pop stars." "They're very serious about what they do and they want to make sure" "We're not taking the mickey." "Japanese music uses a completely different scale to ours." "We were nervous that the brothers wouldn't know how to fit in with our groove when they heard it in the headphones." "They did, though." "We visited a Shinto temple to connect to the ancient native wisdom of Japanese religion." "There are times ...when the only person who can help you is yourself." "When there is someone else you may fawn on them, or become concerned of how they perceive you." "Even do things you may not want to do." "It is important to be alone and face yourself." "Next we wanted to add a Japanese vocal to the track." "We were told about an amazing folk singer who lived in the mountains north of Tokyo." "We've come all the way to Aizu, outside Tokyo, quite a few hours." "This is really different" " You know, we go on about unity and everyone being the same and we're finding the common ground, we've never seen so little common ground." " Morning." " Good morning, nice to meet you." "My name is Du-da." "Du-da?" "The dude!" " Dude?" " You're the dude." "That's good, that's good." "LAUGHTER" " In English, you're the dude." " Thank you." " Sorry, I don't know..." " The top." "The top, famous man is the dude." "Never mind, never mind." "Never mind, it's not important." "LAUGHTER" "COUGHS" "Nice to meet you." "Jamie." "Hi." "SHE SINGS" "1 Giant Leap is all about mixing different styles of music." "We played the Japanese groove to poet Miles Solay." "I'm losing it." "You losing it too?" "There you go." "I think we should do it, like roaming down this block." "Let's do it, let's get into it." "I'm juiced." "Oh, yeah, she said to me" "As I walked on the street With the man for my step" "And a stitch in my thought cos the way regret" "They say she's a diamond in the rough" "But I can't concur or comprehend" "If only we sold our soul We'd be totally so in control" "Why?" "We gotta compromise" "Like two great leaps at the summit peak" "And sick of the saints who wanna live like this" "Have-nots ain't having it" "Have-nots ain't having it" "Have-nots ain't having it" "As I listen to the cries You think I'm lying" "We have got out of balance with our relationships." "I understand with myself how much of some of my past relationships have really been about need fulfillment, when they could have so easily been a mutual platform for growth." "Relationships are always an opportunity to grow." "Even if you're with the most fucked-up person." "Even if you're the most fucked-up person, because whoever you attract in your relationship is where your consciousness is." "Do you know what I mean?" "So that person that you're with is a reflection of you on some level or else they would not be in your universe, in your world." "Because you attracted them." "So if they're fucked up, you better look at yourself, cos you attracted them into your world, so that person is trying to tell you something about yourself." "SHE SINGS" "Sisters don't cry" "Woman make everything work in a marriage" "God won't let your suffering go unrewarded" "Women have suffered in this world" "God will reward you for sustaining your marriage" "CHEERING AND APPLAUSE" "Merci beaucoup." "Ow!" "It sounds great!" "It's only nine o'clock in the morning." "We arrived in China and carried on our treasure hunt." "We really wanted to get off the beaten track, so we travelled to the Yunnan district in the mountains on the border of Tibet." "I thought the Japanese music was about as different as I would experience on this trip, but China was a whole new level." "We were feeling a bit out of our depth, how could we mix these folk performers with our music?" "THEY SING" "The next group we met also looked like a challenge." "But when we played them the track, something incredible happened." "Drank too much sake last night." "Maybe it was just the sake..." "SHE SINGS" "They all sing." "They did all sing last night, they came down and sung lots of lovely songs for us." "SINGING CONTINUES" "Oh, I'm cold and I'm hung over." "We'd heard of a community right out on the border with Tibet that is run by women." "This matriarchal village was full of some of the happiest people we'd met." "Here are our first interview subjects for the day." "I wish I could talk to them." "It's really horrible not being able to talk to people." "What we're gonna try and do, because they don't speak Mandarin, which Nathaniel speaks..." "What is that?" "So we're trying to find someone who can speak their dialect..." "It looks like it must be good to eat." "...And translate to Mandarin to translate to English, so we can find out what they think about stuff." "What is she wearing?" "Where are those clothes from?" "They look nice and comfortable." "We need a translator." "We wanted to find out how relationships work when the women wear the trousers." "Being a woman is better than being a man." "Girls are definitely better than boys." "The girls go out and make money for the family, but the boys only know how to spend money!" "Men are not concerned with the family." "They leave and we don't know where they go and we can't find them." "For me, my wife and I, next May, we'll have been married 65 years." "65 years." "And would you believe it, in those 65 years we have never really had any serious argument, let alone quarrel." "Do I have a formula for it?" "Yes." "I do have a formula for it." "Consideration for the other." "If that is the basis of your marriage, it'll be a happy marriage." "We've come to the top of Monsoon Palace, one of the most amazing views I've ever seen over the whole of Udaipur," "360 degrees, mountains on one side, all the town's on the other side." "Ah!" "And there are monkeys." " What I'd like, I mean you sing together?" " Yes." "What I'd like is a husband" " Wife song about being married." "Or maybe something about your baby." "And how you made the baby, or I don't know." "LAUGHTER" "THEY SING" "When you see old people, they've made it through, you know, and maybe they love each other, maybe they don't, but they've weathered this difficult thing." "It's the hardest thing you'll do." "This immense story that must lie behind these two people together." "Take them and just talk to them, it will be an epic, no matter who they are." "Even if they've lived in the same room for 83 years," "I'm telling you, that life story is a psychodrama, it's an epic." "Everything about him is a delight." "All of it." "No more, no less." "And with all our time together" "I haven't yet found a defect." "I feel he likes my ways." "The way I am." "That's what I think." "Don't listen to what they say about what it takes for a good... for a marriage to work, nobody knows." "WOMAN SINGS" "I don't know that anyone ever learns anything about sustaining a relationship." "I mean, people just tend to pick their relationships apart." ""I'm not getting this..." or I don't know." "You know, just do it." "Throw on your Mikes and just do it." "Fear your woman." "Respect your woman." "Have faith, understanding." "Communicate." "Love her." "Make her smile." "If you can't make your woman smile, you might have a problem." "Sometimes you say to a person, "I love you", but maybe it doesn't mean much, because now it's overused." "I love watching my son smile." "I love my daughter to bits." "I love my mum." "I love toast and tea." "I love every day at my laboratory." "I love to watch a woman who has power." "I love being old." " I love you guys." " I love this country." "I love Osama Bin Laden." "I love people so much." " I love music." " I love being a woman." "I love women." "I love my husband." "I love everything about my wife that she loves about me." "I love him." "DOG BARKS" "I love you." "Thank you." "The world is beautiful" "And each step, it moves me on" "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "WOMAN SPEAKS JAPANESE" "Welcome to Japan." "Tell us, how and why did you start 1 Giant Leap?" "You do how, I'll do why." "We're musicians." "The way we make our album is we take our backing tracks to the most inspiring musicians we can find." "We have a process." "We give them our beat." "They add their music and sing their song." "THEY SING" "This is from every country across the world, with people hearing in their headphones what the last person did." " Did I explain that well?" " I thought it was brilliant." " Ready?" " Rolling." "As well as going round the world looking for amazing musicians, we went to look for amazing, inspirational people to talk to about big subjects of life." "We are searching for truth in many countries." "God, sex." "Anger." "Love." "Freedom." "Conflict." "Madness." "Loneliness." "Death." "Anger." "Did I say anger twice?" "Ten years ago, you couldn't have done what we've done." "Basically, we record on a laptop, film on a DV camera, which means we can slip in kind of undetected." "It's like a kind of guerrilla way of making films." "You're not in control." "You're not in control of yourself or what you're gonna get." "You are in control..." "No, you're not in control." "It's like a string of consciousness." " You have all these beads of music." " Then you weave it all together..." "All the music and the philosophy, after a while, it just fits." "Ah-ah-ahhh..." "This is two guys going round the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "When we wove together all the diverse people, we ended up with 1 Giant Leap." "When we left home with a laptop full of musical sketches we didn't know how the tracks would end up sounding." "How much did we need?" "And when would we have enough?" "So, our first sessions arrived." "Who knows what they're gonna do?" "Salaam aleikum." "Shall we dance?" "SHE SINGS" "I'm not sure about this singing, it's a bit... (WHISTLES) ...over my head." "But it's a very nice vibe." "It's amazing how often something good happens." "Especially when you haven't the foggiest what it's going to be." "We jammed around a piece they had, and I got the vibe." "I'm going to give them headphones so they hear the beat from the machine." "Erm..." "ls there...?" "Do the girls sing...?" "Can the girls sing on this one?" "We want more." "HE SINGS" "The track we started sounded wicked." "So we set off to add more." "We're in Tiananmen Square," "We've met some rappers." "And we..." "We're gonna see if we can do a rap here, I've got the track on the iPod and they've got radio headphones." "It's quite exciting." "Everywhere you look, there's people with guns and uniforms." "There is a chance that maybe this is the first recording session ever done in Tiananmen Square." "Get it rolling, get it rolling." "When you're rolling..." "Don't worry about sound or anything." "Rolling?" "THEY RAP" "OK, that's a wrap." "I believe that God has created a void in every man." "And the only thing that can fill that void is really Himself." "And when men don't find God, they start looking to fill the void everywhere else." "They..." "Some will do it with drugs, some will do it with alcohol, some will do it with sex, some will do it with personal achievement, some will become workaholics." "Man is trying to find satisfaction." "And he's either going to find it in God or he's going to search for it in vain in things." "I've come to the conclusion that life is all about wanting." "We're born hungry on every level." "We're hungry for everything, all our senses are hungry for input." "That there is going to be enough to make us happy in this world is one of the basic illusions that carries us through life." "In money's ongoing crusade to replace intimacy, er, poverty is a manifestation of the inability to participate." "And that's my biggest complaint about poverty, is it reduces me to a spectator position." "And I wanna participate." "I always feel in these puritan cities that I've been dwelling in, they're all just living casinos demanding gambling, and I never had chips." "And I hate it, I hate not having chips." "It's like money is participation in a situation like this." "All I want is, what I want is" "What I get is, once I get it" "Did I get if?" "Keep it going on One, two, yeah" "All I want is, what I want is" "What I get is..." "Yeah, what I want is surface What I need is something deeper" "Lost call shrink wrap with plastic features" "Some vulture came and piqued my interest" "Brochures that promise the world No secrets" "But what's delivered delivers me no difference" "But what's delivered delivers me no difference" "Replace your broken dreams, I can't help you" "You want the food, the clothing and the shelter" "They say keep working the cards that they dealt you" "And if you stand up and fight Then they'll jail you" "They sell broken dreams" "We are formed from the mildew The rust, the heave in this lust" "Our pay is unstable and under the table" "We like free speech, but we love free cable" "We have no excuses, just great alibis" "And poker faces you can't analyse" "We're the have-nots" "But we're also the go-and-gets" "We won't never know..." "Sorry, I got caught up looking at my hair in the thing." "It looked like it was messed up." "HE LAUGHS" "When you don't get enough, you think that there is enough somewhere." "And until you get enough and realise that it isn't enough, you keep dreaming, you have that romantic image that - this will be enough, this relationship, this car." "This thing." "Wanting doesn't stop, no matter how much you get." "Ha ha!" "Feel the heat of the sun." "Ooh!" "We've gone to the Amazon to find some Brazilian folk music." "THEY SING" "It was a lovely vibe with the whole village coming out to greet us, but it wasn't quite what we wanted." "So instead..." "What are we doing today, Junno?" "We're going to go inside of the jungle and exchange sounds with the birds with the ambiance." "RINGING" "I put a radio mike in his boat, transmitted the track into his headphones and cast him loose." "A few more jewels in the bag, but we still wanted more." "In Mexico, the track really took an unexpected turn." "Bueno." ""More" is an important part of the future, more." "Instead of going deeper into "now", there's always "more" that keeps you on the surface of life." ""I need to add more to me." ""I need to smoke."" "INHALES DEEPLY" "Or an addictive eater." "There's enormous need behind it." ""I need, I need it."" "Or sex, you can see how close they all are." "You want to take it, take something in." "Because I'm not fulfilled." "We've just arrived in Udaipur." "We haven't really got anything worked out." "We don't know what we're gonna do." "I think we're going to have to do guerrilla musician finding." "As of now." "We heard some music of lama Ogyen Dorje, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa." "Observe the longing, or the desire for whatever it is, feel the emptiness inside that wants to be filled." "Something is..." "The neediness, feel it." "Don't just become it." "Become the witness." "And then you're no longer the slave." "Still on the hunt for the good stuff, we took to the streets of Rajasthan" "Where we found a group of street musicians and a young vocalist with superstar potential." " Do you just want him to sing and dance?" " Just to hear it first." "Then we'll see if we can work it in." "Yes." "HE SINGS" "Yeah!" "OK, right, so, gentlemen..." "SCRATCHES SINGING" "We travelled through 15 countries in six months, only ever in each location for a week or so." "We had to be quick and efficient in finding whatever it was we thought we wanted." "First session in Rio." "Ha-ha!" "There he is, look." "We gotta stop this frantic search outside, this constant expansion and getting more and more." "God, it's never enough." "How can we all be miserable and never getting enough?" "HE LAUGHS" "Freedom is being contented with what you've got." "That's freedom." "That's it." "No matter how much we collected, it was impossible to know when we had enough." "We were always afraid that something was missing." "It's been a long journey to go and do a song with Alanis Morrissette, hasn't it?" "I wonder if she'll turn up." "Great!" "Alanis could only spare three hours for us, so we set about writing, recording and filming a song in record time." "How about, "The edges I run from" or "You run from"?" ""I", I think." "I like it "I"." "It's amazing what you can achieve when the pressure's on." "Shiva is mine" "Shusha is mine" "Deep in reflection It's all about me" "Gonna arrive at the same place As I began" "I-I-I-I am beginning on time" "There's certain times when you think something really good's gonna happen." "We're just waiting for Eugene Hutz to turn up from Gogol Bordello." " Good to see you!" " Yeah, man." "Tonight, I think, something really goods gonna happen." "Eugene only had one hour." "To make matters worse, I couldn't get the radio mike to work." "I don't know what to sing to you people any more." "At least that gave him time to prepare." "There's a lot of cops down there trying to shut me down again, you know." "Oh, I dig this one." "Beginning on time" "Here we go!" "I'm a foreigner and I'm walking through the streets" "But before I walk Do I see the same disc?" "And had I been with you A power machine" "Percussion's doing string As you writhe in your sleep" "Cos being nearer to you Ah!" "Leisure class" "Ah!" "Leisure class" "Thank you." " Party, you know." " Yeah, yeah." "Party!" "I think I've fried my voice." "We're going to Goree Island out there." "It's had a pretty gruesome history." "It's the last place the slaves were held before they were taken across the Atlantic." "We're going out with a dance troupe that are with us." "Do some dancing, some drumming." " Ready?" " Rolling." "You love our music" "But you hate our guts" "We know all about you" "You don't know a thing about us" "Our idea is to reach some kind of collaboration," "Where your music marries our music." "That's our goal." "HE SINGS" "Dakar, Senegal, amazing." "Can't wait to do the session." "It's just the most amazing singer I've ever heard in my life." "I can't wait to hear what she sings." "Here we go." "Rolling." "SHE SINGS" "I do think people could fall into the trap of understanding freedom as, you know, "I do what I like."" "I don't really think that's freedom, because you're still bound by your desires." "So where is the freedom?" "Freedom would be, you understand your desires, the compulsion of those desires, the addiction of that, and you are able to, you know, transcend that." "Otherwise, you know, your passion is determining your behaviour, although you are saying it is freedom." "In Salvador, we met up with Bulebule, a street poet who said he could improvise on any theme we wanted." "The song I want is about freedom." "And I want him, if he can, just to think..." "Have freedom, the word freedom in the song." "Sometimes you are used to a system where the house is open, but you don't go out because you've already lost the concept of freedom." "Sometimes you are so anxious for freedom that you could free yourself from any prison or chains." "It depends on the strength of your concept of freedom." "So we've come out to the Nungua region, which is just outside Accra." "And so we're here, and Napoleon's gonna start by playing..." "What's the instrument called, Napoleon?" "Huh?" "Ngoni." "And the shekere is the..." "I am a Rasta man coming from the ghetto" "Ghetto is nice, ghetto is good" "Ghetto people cry for their freedom, yeah" "My people cry for their freedom Free, yeah" "Freedom, I want" "Freedom for people, free yeah" "Freedom, I want" "Freedom for people, free yeah" "Freedom, I want" "Freedom for people, free yeah" "Freedom, I want" "Freedom for people" "With freedom of action We have everything to realise" "He who has the shadow of freedom has also a tree to rest under" "Freedom is to have wings and fly" "My people cry for their freedom, yeah" "My people cry" "For their freedom, free yeah" "Freedom and restraint are two sides of one thing." "How can there be freedom without restraint?" "It's impossible." "Physically, we're not free." "Emotionally, we're not free." "Mentally, we're surely not free, cos we're carrying this whole weight of culture and conditioning and it's like all of that has to go." "Everything is predetermined." "What actually happens has never been in anyone's control." "I decide what I want," "I've just done whatever I wanted to do." "What happens is, I sometimes get what I want, sometimes I do not get what I want." "And sometimes I get what I never expected." "For better or worse." "And which of the three things happens, I have no control." "That is my point." "Hold onto the freedom in your spirit" "Freedom is not just do what you want" "You may be denying someone else their freedom" "The chains are broken" "Be patient" "Be tolerant" "Freedom and independence are there for everybody" "What we need to be free from is a narcissistic ego." "A narcissistic ego is a source of almost all of our unhappiness." "Our name, our job." "Cos your real self doesn't know your name." "And it doesn't know where you work or where you live." "It doesn't know your address, it doesn't know your phone number. it doesn't care." "That's not you." "The real you is eternal and all this other stuff is just... lipstick." "Free, yeah" "Freedom I want" "Freedom for the people, free yeah" "Freedom, I want" "Freedom for the people, free yeah" "Freedom I want" "Freedom for the people, free yeah" "Freedom, I want" "Freedom for the people" "LAUGHTER" "Each step moves us on" "The world is beautiful" "And each step it moves me on" "What do we think about TV?" "TV shows us only good things, nothing bad." "Before we had TV, we didn't know anything." "We couldn't see anything and we didn't have anything good to eat." "TV is good." "Now we have nothing to worry about." "WOMAN SPEAKS JAPANESE" "Welcome to Japan." "Tell us, how and why did you start 1 Giant Leap?" "You do how, I'll do why." "We're musicians." "The way we make our album is we take our backing tracks to the most inspiring musicians we can find." "We have a process." "We give them our beat." "They add their music and sing their song." "THEY SING" "This is from every country across the world, with people hearing in their headphones what the last person did." " Did I explain that well?" " I thought it was brilliant." " Ready?" " Rolling." "As well as going round the world looking for amazing musicians, we went to look for amazing, inspirational people to talk to about big subjects of life." "We are searching for truth in many countries." "God, sex." "Anger." "Love." "Freedom." "Conflict." "Madness." "Loneliness." "Death." "Anger." "Did I say anger twice?" "Ten years ago, you couldn't have done what we've done." "Basically, we record on a laptop, film on a DV camera, which means we can slip in kind of undetected." "It's like a kind of guerrilla way of making films." "You're not in control." "You're not in control of yourself or what you're gonna get." "You are in control..." "No, you're not in control." "It's like a string of consciousness." " You have all these beads of music." " Then you weave it all together..." "All the music and the philosophy, after a while, it just fits." "Ah-ah-ahhh..." "This is two guys going round the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "When we wove together all the diverse people, we ended up with 1 Giant Leap." "(Woman) I never put make-up." "I never dye my hair." "When I go to the States, my friends, they tell me, why don't you make a facelift, you know, to hide your wrinkles?" "Why should I hide my wrinkles?" "I am above 70." "I'm proud of my age." "I'm proud of my wrinkles." "Our six-month journey around the world was coming to an end." "We were on the search for the final few musicians to play along with our track about getting old." "I'd love you to play this melody." "I would like to play this melody with harmonica." "Harmonica!" "Harmonica!" "I can hear it already!" "Ow!" "Early morning in Beijing and we've come to see old people do tai chi." "They're in such great shape." "They're flexible, they all look healthy, they shout as well." "Raar!" "Raaar!" "Isn't that a great concept?" "CHANTING" "Then over there, they're ballroom dancing." "Amazing." "And now, I'm old, more than 80," "I'm not afraid of death." "To be or not to be, that is the question." "If I could not move, if I could not walk freely, if I could not hear, I could not see or read, what would be the use of living?" "If to live is a delight, then live on - as long as you can." "If to be is not good, then maybe not to be, I think." "The art here, when you're old, is to be like a child." "I'm not afraid of death." "What I be afraid of is old age." "Once you get old, you become weak, you become powerless, don't know what to do." "You can see people working - you know how to do it, but you cannot do it." "This is what I'm starting to feel now." "In my case, there's a fear of not doing all I want to do before dying, because I feel that I still have time." "There's still sun on the walls, you know?" "But it's a sun that's coming down." "I never think of myself wrinkled." "I never think that I have white hair." "But I do have a sensation sometimes when I glimpse myself at the mirror" "I say, "Oh..." "How ugly."" "And that... that is sad." "SHE SINGS" "I'm backstage at Wembley Stadium and I think today could be the last..." "Well, maybe not the last... but one of the last sessions we're doing and it's with Carlos Santana." "We'll try a couple of things and you tell me which one just feels more..." " ...genuine and honest." " OK." "I like the lady, the Mexican lady, but whatever you want to try..." " OK, Lila Downs, perfect." " OK." "SHE SINGS" "My dad's been a bit ill and he went into hospital yesterday." "He's turned orange." "He's 84..." "My sister thinks that he's been lying there and hasn't been eating for a very long time." "He's had really bad diarrhoea, is really weak, and he's..." "They think that he's gonna go." "Do I carry on on this fantasy trip or do I go home to see my dad in an orange, confused, weak state, about to die?" "I don't wanna see that, really." "I don't wanna see it." "I don't need to." "Found you!" "I put you on my calendar for tomorrow." "That's OK." "Is it OK for us..?" "But I'm here, so it's fine." "This aspect of, of... close to death," "I'm only obsessed with it because it's happening to my father right now." "Oh." "So I'm trying to come to terms with it myself." "He's 84, he's had a good life, so..." "I guess it's..." "I'm really sad for me rather than him." "That's what I was gonna say, of course." "As you get old, it's a constant process of loss." "You lose... parents, of course and if you're unfortunate, sometimes children." "Certainly friends." "Those are big losses." "And that's what we deal with, it's the loss." "I guess death is the final loss, you lose yourself." "TAPPING" "Off to see Ram Das." "My favourite person in the whole universe." "I'm gonna try not to be glib about this - he is my favourite person in the whole universe and a lot of the inspiration for the kinds of thing" "We've talked about in this film came from him." "Aging is going from... a perceptual stance of ego to a perceptual stance of soul." "WOMAN SINGS" "Anywhere where I drop the body, that's the perfect place." "The perfect place to die." "And we each..." "We each die at our appointed time." "It's beautiful death." "If you can face death, you can look death in the eye then He will reward you by letting you live, really live every second that you have left." "WOMAN SINGS" "APPLAUSE" "That was unbelievable!" "Unbelievable!" "CHILDREN CLAP IN TIME" "THEY SING" "Behind 1 Giant Leap is the search for spirit - it's what inspired us to start this project." "We talked to a lot of people on our journey about a lot of different stuff but the one question that always got people going was, "do you believe in God?"" "We'd visited places of worship everywhere we went, finding the passion that still exists in the world when you have a belief." "I'm gonna light this and just say a short prayer." "Because if you involve God in your work, you have to succeed." "This opens the spiritual eye in your brain cos most of our brain we never use, you know." "That's the spiritual side that we should cultivate to serve God properly." "Haile Selassie." "The central dynamic..." "of history is not a conflict between God and Satan." "It's not a conflict between good and evil." "It's a conflict between ignorance and enlightenment." "There is quite a widespread awakening far greater than ever before, in many humans." "Traditionally we've looked for spirituality in religion, but most of spirituality nowadays is actually arising outside of religion." "I take a moment to myself so I can hear myself" "To feel myself, be real myself Life's addictions" "And afflictions cause abrasion from the friction" "Sometimes it's easier to live in fiction" "I can run but I can't hide" "From the pains that reside down deep inside" "There is no pill that can be swallowed" "There is no guru that can be followed" "We live in a dream, our lives are fragile." "All of us have one foot on a banana peel and the other foot on the grave." "It's hard to just let life happen." "Said, why must I fee!" "like this today" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So today, I pray for grace" "I pray for grace" "There's this amazing all-girl singing group - six-piece group." "Silly o'clock in the morning, but they have to get to Swaziland, they leave at 11, so we've come to do some early-morning singing." "And you're having that." "So what can I teach you..." "What is it?" "Which order?" "What can I teach you, what can you teach me?" "What can I learn from you, what can you learn from me?" " Those four?" " Yes." "Round and round." "OK." "A long long time I found the words to say" "How much I'm grateful for my life today" "Cos none of us can live a perfect life" "The kind that we see on Nick at night" "And sometimes we all just lose sight" "Of the pain that will guide us from dark into the light" "So today" "I pray for grace" "I pray, er... a lot." "You know, every day, and I talk to God like he is my very best mate." "It's great talking to someone when you know that the option for bullshit doesn't exist." "It would be easy to become religious, I think." "It's an effort not to." "Not in an orthodox sense, but seriously, to suddenly just depart from all the sciences and decide that there is a completely unidentified set of quite detailed and purposeful forces that are driving us." "It's never random, there's nothing random in the universe." "At the most fundamental levels of nature, there's one single pattern in which you and I and our thoughts and our behaviours and our interactions are actually part of an overall pattern." "This song is about offering everything that's already given right back to the one who gives it to you." "Everything I am is who you are." "HE SINGS" "The more you can be an individual and be all of it at the same time you've got it made." "It makes no sense to me, none of it." "You know, we're not very significant as creatures, you know." "It's over - it begins, it's over." "And for me, it's a blessed oblivion." "Nothing." "The absolute..." "thrill of nothing, you know." "The relief of nothing - gone, nothing." "Nothing." "Wow," "God, who people call the great spirit, or people call Buddha, you know, and enlightenment - that's not out there." "That's not in heaven." "Heaven and hell dwell right within yourself." "You can live hell tomorrow and be in heaven today right now." "It's nothing esoteric." "Out there." "It's right here." "SHE SINGS" "Each piece of music we make, we give a theme." "One of our themes obviously has to be God, so we're talking to Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians about their idea of God and who God is, what it means to them." "We want to mix all kinds of inspirational music from different places around the world, so today, we'd like to do a bit of that." "And we'll have a bit of fun!" "You know what, whether Lord is Buddha or Jesus, or Allah or whatever, if he's a god, he's gonna know you're a cool guy and you ain't gotta worry." "If there's a heaven, you're going." "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe I believe in God" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe I believe in God" "Amazing Grace How sweet the sound" "That saved a wretch like me I was born so lost" "But now am found" "Was blind but now I see" "Won't you sing along with me, yeah" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe I believe in God" "I'm a believer, I'm a believer" "Do you believe I believe in God" "It's like they say in the Catholic Church - world without end!" "Right?" "!" "It never stops." "Why must I feel like this today?" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So every day, I pray for grace" "Why must I feel like yesterday?" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So every day, I pray for grace" "I'm a believer" "I pray for grace" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "So every day, I pray for grace" "APPLAUSE" "The world is beautiful" "And each step moves me on." "CHEERING AND APPLAUSE" "Scotland!" "CHEERING" "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna introduce a band called 1 Giant Leap, they record with creative people they find around the world, they put them down in India, then they go on and they play them in Africa," "another African artist records on top of that, they are here today and they are gonna play for you with Maxi Jazz," "Will Young, from Uganda, Geoffrey Oryema, from South Africa, the legendary Mahotella Queens, please welcome 1 Giant Leap!" "CHEERING" "The idea behind 1 Giant Leap is to break down borders." "It seemed to us music and belief systems are mirrored everywhere in the world." "Our idea was to find out what would happen if we visited as many countries and cultures as we could, recording and filming whatever we find and then mixing it, inviting the next people to join in and adding their ideas." "This is two guys, you know, going around the world, looking for the aliveness, for the gifts that just come out of nowhere." "It's like a string of consciousness and it has all these beads of music." "It flows." "It's like a jigsaw that we don't really know what it's gonna look like." "The weeks before we left on our global treasure hunt were pretty intense." "The technical side alone was really tricky." "There was just me, and Jamie, and Ben our cameraman, travelling." "And we had to be able to carry everything with us, recording studio, camera, the tripod, clean socks, everything." "And be discreet enough to get into places without causing a fuss." "There's all our stock." "The logistics of setting up a 20 nation, six-month journey were also massive and stressful." "How long is Japan and China together?" " We're not moving." " We are." "We wrote 15 pieces of music to take on the journey with us." "These were mainly guitar-based instrumental tracks which we recorded on the laptop." "We also wanted to take some vocal tracks with us, so we went round to see our mate Maxi Jazz to get some rhymes and some wisdom." "Here it is." "There we go." "With the Buddha outside." "HE CHANTS" "Boom ba ding" "My name is Ego I'll be with you till your last breath" "Some of the people know the situation And would scare me to death" "I can't stand things that I can't understand..." "That was it." "We had all the music ready, tickets booked and we're off on our own for six months." "We didn't know what to expect." "We felt like explorers, setting off on a unique treasure hunt." "There was no script to fall back on, it was down to us to find the jewels." "Our first stop was Bamako in Mali." "The beauty of Africa hit us full on." "We're here, we've arrived." "Slap bang in the middle of nowhere, suddenly this beautiful place." "Hello." "Bonjour!" "I've shaken my hand more times than it's ever been shaken before in my life." "And everyone's just really happy that we're here and it's just so nice." "I'm happy we're here." "It doesn't take much investigation into African music of today to realise that Mali is well ahead of the game." "Ow!" "It sounds great." "I was told that the first president after independence from France set up music schools all over the country and now the music scene in Mali is reaping the rewards." "Our first session was with diva Oumou Sangare." "That's her." "Don't mess it up!" "Don't." " No pressure." "It's only Oumou Sangare." " I know." "If we muck it up, we muck it up." "It's only the most important singer in the country, the reason we flew here." " I thought you were my friend." " Not while we're on camera." " Jamie." " Jumnuma?" " Jumunuma?" "Jamie." " Jamie." " Duncan." " Bonjour." "Duncan." "Duncan." "Take our backing tracks through 20 countries." "When we arrive in Brazil or India, they will hear your voice, so everything will grow from there, from hearing the other musicians." "When we out together what you say with the women in India, with the women in China, there becomes a narrative which is very diverse on the surface, but very unified underneath." "SHE SINGS" "Hey, mama!" "Hey, hey, mama!" "Hey, mama!" "Hey, hey, mama!" "Hey, mama!" "Hey, hey, mama!" "With the big names of Oumou Sangare and the Mahotella Queens in the can, we headed out into the streets of Bamako to see what else we could find for our global improvisation." "We met a wicked group of kids who got very excited and when I played them the groove in the headphones, they locked into it perfectly." "OK - jouez les batteries." "HE SINGS" "The thing that really sets Malian music apart from the rest of African music is the distinctive guitar sounds, both ancient and modern." "We'd heard that the new guitar talent on the Banako block was Baba Sal." "We left Bamako and headed off into the villages in search of the roots of the Malian guitar sound." "Just what the track needed - two djelin'gonis." "I knew that all along(!" ")" "Mm" "My name is Ego I'll be with you till your last breath" "Right, here's a small list of all the things that scare me to death" "I can't stand things that I can't understand" "And I especially hate things I can't command" "I don't like the unfamiliar And I've gotta be first" "But I tell you, without me" "You could never be a Mandela" "Who would know what Mohammad Ali was at" "We never really know what will happen when we arrive in a country..." "This way, everybody!" "We always have a fantasy list of artists we'd heard of but to find the real local talent, we need a talented local fixer." "Our fixer in Mali was teacher and human gem, Seikou Camara." "This film, it is pertaining to my country, to my country's culture." "It's a way to make the culture survive." "It is helping us to know more who we are." "That may change some attitudes in Europe as well." "This is what I call cultural exchange, between Europe and Africa." "HE GASPS" " C'est du cuir..." " It's beautiful." "HE TRANSLATES Goatskin." "OK." "This is, er... cow leather." "I'm really excited cos I ask a lot of people about the bass sound underneath the n'goni, nobody really knew except for Seikou, he say n'bolon." "Get down with your bad self, Seikou!" " I know how to play!" " You know how to rock!" "Si!" "I showed them the riff that I was developing and whilst we tuned up, they listened to the recording in the headphones and added their sound." "I can kiss" "Away these tears" "I wouldn't miss" "Your edges, your cliffs, they are clay" "They are clues gone astray" "Finding the ones we refuse" "And we breathe in the breeze" "And stir through the leaves that still fall" "On our feet" "Everybody wants to behave just like an American." "It's amazing." "It's amazing to me." "I don't think they are always happy people there." "I don't think they are." "It's not enough to have money to be happy." "Money doesn't make people happy." "But it is peace of mind you have." "And I will be surprised if you have peace of mind." "Because there's no family." "Individualistic life, everybody's running after money!" "We have no time to sit down!" "Talk peacefully, be friends." "It's a disaster." "We went off-road in Gabon, and found a whole world that we'd never seen or heard before." "HE SINGS" "It always feels a bit strange when we turn up in remote villages with our expensive cameras and equipment." "There's always the question of are we giving back as much as we get?" "Everyone who comes here makes the same mistake." "We are given nothing." "They promise us things but when they leave, they are done with filming the pygmies and that's the end." "He is filming the old woman who is peeling her vegetables in the kitchen." "In the end, he is the one who gets the money." "And even now, I'm losing out." "My children and my grandchildren will not see their grandma's face on TV." "You give us 100,000 francs right now!" "We were invited to travel with the Minister of Culture, Pierre Akendengue and help record the traditional songs of Gabon." "Pierre - an old, blind musician - was well-loved and everywhere we went, there was much excitement." "Although the villages are paid and given gifts, there's always the question of who's gaining more from these sessions." "SHOUTING" "HE SINGS" "You know we are poor, we are counting on you." "We are counting on your help, with these images." "Soon there won't be any images to take." "These images will disappear." "We are going away, all of us, the journey is over." "It's finished, good night, it's over." "Mohino!" "In 1 Giant Leap we have no script or storyboard, so we have to follow all our leads, which takes us to some very unpredictable places." "We're going to interview two dominatrixes." "Would you say "dominatrices"?" "Hi there, it's Jamie." "It's 5.20..." "Did we not say 5.30?" "Oh, yeah, yeah, OK." "SHE HANGS UP" "This is the way the dominating game begins, isn't it?" "I'm being dominated." "I must admit, I kind of dress cos I like the ladies to like the way I look." "You'd be surprised how many ladies like what I wear!" "Agreed, brother, agreed!" "Apparently now we're ten minutes late!" "Ten minutes late!" "Women are very attractive and being attractive as they are, men are weak, and men sometimes, if their sexual desires are aroused, they are just like beasts, like animals." "The male is an animal, driven by its testosterone." "And this needs to be firmly controlled." "We had no control, especially when trying to get people involved." "Sometimes the outside world just didn't share our enthusiasm." "I can't believe that nobody's saying yes." "I mean, we've got three weeks in America and we've got three people confirmed." "They laughed me off the phone." ""Why are you calling us?" ""Who are you?" And "don't call us any more." You know us!" "One of the most difficult people to pin down was Michael Stipe." "We had a meeting in Osaka, a writing session in a flat in Paris and finally to New York, where it all came together." "I have seen trouble, trouble saw me" "I danced around the trouble tree" "I have seen beauty" "It staggered on me" "I have seen trouble" "Mmmmm" "What came out of our search for Michael was not only the song, but also an understanding of what was going into our film was a reflection of what was going on for us at the time." "I started the film just trying to get good footage and by the end of the film," "I was asking Neale Donald Walsch about the difference between love and need, or I was asking Bob Geldof was there any remedy for a broken heart?" "When I was asking certain questions, I needed to know the answers, you know?" "I think that's when the film started getting good." "That's probably when we started getting our good stuff, when I was more present with the process and it was more personal for me." "Hi, Eckhart" " Jamie." "Thanks a lot for coming." "As we've travelled more and more, we had this idea that we're all mad..." " ...and..." " I agree with that." "When somebody upsets you, it's old pain, it's very rarely that that person just annoyed you, it's triggered all the unprocessed times it happened." "There is in every human being an accumulation of past emotional pain - your thinking is fuelled by the old emotion." "It feeds on every negative thought that it makes you have." "Fighting doesn't help, what helps is... becoming friendly with it." "You become the observing presence, rather than it." "That transforms it and it frees you from being its slave." "I've been away for a long time, see" "Waiting for someone to rescue me" "One woman came with a gift for me" "Go find yourself then come find me" "I've been away" "For too long, you see" "I been away" "Till you came for me" "Jamie's in LA, he's been with famous people." "As usual." "Is that Steve Martin's office?" "I've got a text from Bob Geldof." "We shouldn't be shooting - we should have stopped ages ago." "Oh, my God, that's all we want - all we want is Missy Elliott." "Here we are, searching out the inspirational." "How weird to be back in London." "I've come to see one of my favourite people in the whole universe " " Stephen Fry." " Hey!" "The funny thing about most human beings is they know absolutely, with complete clarity, everything that is wrong with them and everything that could make them happy." "I know exactly how to be happy." "100,000 times happier than I am now." "But I also know I'm not gonna do it!" "Um..." "That's what's really weird about us." "The world is beautiful" "Placed here from the love of mama Passed down from my papa" "Voices from beyond, they call me" "Wisdom speaks loud from the corners" "And each step it moves me on Isn't it the same for you?" "Isn't this the honest truth?" "Seeds for us for things that we should trust" "It's all about me, it's all about you" "All the lies, all the truth" "The usual, the unusual the known, the unknown" "It's so beautiful" "But I pray please lift me up and help me stand" "We're moving on, just hand in hand" "But it always comes back down to me and you..." "I feel as lonely as a penguin in Istanbul!" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forwards" "Still miles to go" "Each step moves us on Here we go" "Onward, forward Still miles to go it was really exciting watching all the music coming together." "All the tracks had elements of loads of different countries and each musician added a new flavour to the mix." "Ah, delicious!" "Sometimes we even managed to accept that everything was actually going OK." "If you substitute content for happy, you'll probably find you're happy." "Cos we've associated happiness with laughing, smiling and throwing beach balls to your children." "I've never been that guy." "So I think maybe I'm not happy?" "But if you switch it for content, the practice of contentment, you'll think oh God, I'm happy." "I'm a happy man." "Oh, lucky me!" "MAN SINGS" "You are good." "This is important to get your basic goodness and stop beating yourself up." "Stop worrying." "Worrying is praying for what you don't want." "So stop praying for what you don't want and just..." "let go." "Apparently we're going on the I-1OE." "The I-1OE." " Ay-es!" " Cool." "Look, you Great Wall of China, just shut up!" "See, you can't argue with the Great Wall of China." " To St Charles Avenue." " Bah." "Yeah." "OK?" "You begin to understand one or two things about world culture - how to blend in seamlessly with the locals." "Get the horses!" "We're going to the top of the hill... to do a clarinet solo." "We have no control in 1 Giant Leap." "We totally depend on one lead leading to another, taking us the extra mile." "Savash took us out to his home village for some Romany gypsy songs." "We'll put headphones on." "HE TRANSLATES" "And we see how we can mix it up." "You love our music But you hate our guts" "We know all about you You don't know a thing about us" "THEY SING" "Been recording now for two years!" "Two years ago, almost to the day," "I was in Kenya with the Samburu tribe and they were jumping up and down around me and I didn't know how to work the camera..." "Thinking about all the amazing things that were gonna come on this trip." "And these headphones have been on Michael Stipe's head," "Baaba Maal's head, just so many heads." "You can actually... smell the heads from around the world." "This film is just a drop in the ocean of all the material we collected." "We came back with over 1,000 hours of footage, hundreds of music sessions and the proof that if there is one thing that unites our diversity, it's the universal love of music." "Why must I feel like this today" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So every day, I pray for grace" "Why must I feel like this today?" "I'm a soldier, but afraid" "So every day" "I pray for grace" "I'm a believer" "I pray for grace" "I pray for grace" "I'm a believer" "I pray for grace" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "I believe in God" "So today, I pray for grace." "APPLAUSE" "It's a wrap." "Each step moves us on"