All music is a synthesis of intellectual design and bodily urge. The human soul cannot make do with dancing alone - it will inevitably seek more and more fantastic musical designs, more complex patterns, more rarefied sounds. 'Earth Dances' is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect - a dazzling journey through music and culture. Alternating between chapters of criticism and interviews (including with Brian Eno), author and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship between primal forms of music and the most refined examples of the art - between passion and control.