Eponymous (Version 2021) Deep Forest

• 1 Deep Forest (Version 2021) 05:28
• 2 Sweet Lullaby (Version 2021) 03:52
• 3 Night Bird (Version 2021) 03:58
• 4 First Twilight (Version 2021) 02:48
• 5 White Whisper (Version 2021) 05:50
• 6 Hunting (Version 2021) 04:02
• 7 Desert Walk (Version 2021) 05:04
• 8 Second Twilight (Version 2021) 03:30
• Total Runtime 34:32

Info for Eponymous (Version 2021)

Deep Forest is the first studio album by the musical group Deep Forest, consisting of French duo Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. The album mixes New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti, and the Sahel. Deep Forest was nominated for the Grammy Award as Best World Music Album in 1994. For Sanchez and Mouquet, the most important purpose of the album was to express their own fascination with the Efe people, and open the world's ears to the exquisite sound of a quickly vanishing culture. As Mouquet noted, "It's not very often you can hear a Pygmy singing on the radio." However this purpose was not realised as no Efe, or indeed any Pygmy people featured on the album or any of its samples.

"A close (and superior) musical cousin of equally popular 90's ambient dance act Enigma, Deep Forest pairs French dance producers Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. While Enigma never did manage to make a consistently great album in its 90's heyday, Deep Forest managed the feat twice."

Eric Mouquet, keyboards, programming
Michel Sanchez, keyboards, programming
Cooky Cue, keyboards, programming on "Savana Dance"
Michel Villain, vocals

Digitally remastered

Deep Forest
Frontrunners of chillout, French electronic duo Deep Forest fused traditional indigenous music from around the world with relaxed ambient beats, creating a new breed of captivating electronic pop that found worldwide success. Their approach was best typified by their 1993 smash "Sweet Lullaby," which brought together the group's original electronic sounds with a haunting traditional lullaby from the Solomon Islands. The group repeated its multi-platinum formula on a host of albums throughout the '90s. Along with multiple compilations and remix collections, Deep Forest worked on several soundtracks throughout the early 2000s before the founding members went their separate ways in 2005. The following decade saw founding member Eric Mouquet continuing on under the Deep Forest moniker, collaborating often and sometimes focusing on the sounds of specific global regions to inspire new studio creations. The sixth proper album from the group, Evo Devo (conceptually based on the process of evolution) was released in 2016.

Deep Forest were formed in 1992 by French electronic musicians Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. Inspired by the music and culture he observed on a trip to Africa, Sanchez delved into recordings he'd acquired on his trip, and he and Mouquet began sampling the native sounds for use with their atmospheric dance tracks. With the aid of producer Dan Lacksman, these tracks became Deep Forest, and their eponymous debut LP appeared in 1993. Propelled by the international hit "Sweet Lullaby," Deep Forest was a surprise success; Mouquet and Sanchez soon began work on a follow-up, this time exploring such areas as Mongolia, India, and Hungary, recording several tracks with singer Márta Sebestyén. The resulting album, Boheme, appeared in 1995; the third Deep Forest record, Comparsa, followed in 1998, with Live in Japan appearing a year later. In 2000 the duo recorded a soundtrack, Pacifique, to the French film Le Prince du Pacifique. Deep Forest returned in 2002 with their next proper studio album, Music.Detected_. A number of best-of compilations were released in subsequent years, and the duo put out a soundtrack album for the Japanese motion picture Kusa No Ran in 2004.

In 2005, Sanchez left the band to start his solo career and Mouquet continued on with the Deep Forest name as well as collaborating with a wide range of artists including Josh Groban and jazz legend Joe Zawinul. His collaborations also included artists specific to certain regions, as he produced a series of albums like 2008's Deep Brasil with Brazilian artist Flávio Dell'Isola, 2013's Deep Africa with a cast of African musicians, and 2014's Deep India with Indian santoor player Rahul Sharma. Deep Forest's sixth studio album, Evo Devo, arrived in 2016, and in 2018 Mouquet collaborated with worldbeat artist Gaudi on the hypnotic collection Epic Circuits. (Fred Thomas, AMG)

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