 Frith called Gravity a " dance album " , not in the disco / funk sense of its day , but a collection of " dance music " drawn from cultures around the world . The album features an array of rock , folk and jazz instruments , plus field recordings , clapping and " whirling " , and has been described as a " musical hybridization " of " Latin percussion , calypso festivity , eastern @-@ tinged percussion [ and ] Klezmer @-@ like celebration " . 
