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Deep Forest is the first and eponymous album by the musical group Deep Forest: French duo Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. The album mixes New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from Zaire, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti and the Sahel. A percentage of the profits from sales of Deep Forest goes to the Pygmy Fund, a California-based organization committed to helping the natives of central Africa cope with environmental threats to their homeland. But for Sanchez and Mouquet, the most important purpose of the record is to express their own fascination with the Pygmies -- and open the world's ears to the exquisite sound of a quickly vanishing culture. As Mouquet notes, ``It's not very often you can hear a Pygmy singing on the radio.

It was nominated for Grammy Award as Best World Album in 1994.

Songs "Sweet Lullaby", "Deep Forest", "Forest Hymn" and "Savana Dance" were released as singles, first two of which became hits worldwide.

More than 3,000,000 copies of the album have been sold. The album became Platinum in the USA, France, New Zealand; Double Platinum in Australia, Greece and Gold in the UK and Norway. The album was certified 2x Diamond by the SNEP Export Awards in 2002.

Track listing

All songs by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez, except where indicated

  1. "Deep Forest"
  2. "Sweet Lullaby"
  3. "Hunting"
  4. "Night Bird"
  5. "The First Twilight" (Cooky Cue, Mouquet, Sanchez)
  6. "Savana Dance"
  7. "Desert Walk"
  8. "White Whisper"
  9. "The Second Twilight" (Cue, Mouquet, Sanchez)
  10. "Sweet Lullaby (ambient mix)"
  11. "Forest Hymn"

Personnel

Chart Positions

Album

Singles

USA

  • 1993 Sweet Lullaby Hot Dance Music/Club Play 6
  • 1993 Sweet Lullaby Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 4
  • 1993 Sweet Lullaby Modern Rock Tracks 14
  • 1994 Deep Forest Hot Dance Music/Club Play 4
  • 1994 Sweet Lullaby The Billboard Hot 100 - #78

UK

  • Sweet Lullaby -#10
  • Deep Forest -20
  • Savana Dance -28
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