Deep Forest (Deep Forest album)
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."
More than 3, 5 million units were sold worldwide.
The album went gold in the US, France, platinum in Australia, and gold in the UK.
The songs" Sweet Lullaby Deep ForestForest Hymn" and" Savana Dance" were released as singles, the first two of which became hits worldwide.
The album currently remains out of print, due to copyright and attribution disputes over the sampling of music from indigenous peoples.
Though 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, it has been noted that the indigenous groups featured on the album would not be assisted by the Pygmy Fund".
In 2005 Joni Mitchell included two tracks from this album," Night Bird" and" The First Twilight", as related to her musical development on her" Artist's Choice" CD.
While the Earth Sleeps
" While the Earth Sleeps" is a song written by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez of Deep Forest and Peter Gabriel.
The song was performed by Deep Forest with Peter Gabriel and appeared on the soundtrack for the film" Strange Days"( 1995) and is played over the film's end credits.
It was released as a CD single.
The song features Bulgarian folk singer Katya Petrova.
Michel Sanchez
Michel Sanchez( born 1 July 1957 in Somain, France) is a French musician.
He spent much of this youth studying music( piano, classical organ percussion).
Sanchez is the co-founder of the band Deep Forest with Éric Mouquet.
He won a Grammy Award in 1995, and a World Award for best world music album.
In the early 1990s Sanchez mixed synthesizer with a traditional song from the Solomon Islands.
This was the starting point of Deep Forest.
Doll Congress
Doll Congress was an American 1980s alternative rock band from Los Angeles.
Its members were Michael Penn( guitar, vocals, production), Gabriele Morgan( vocals, clarinet), Patrick Warren( keyboards), Larry Rott( bass, vocals), and Rafael Gayol( who then went by the name Danny Gayol, drums).
They began as" Gabriele Morgan and Doll Congress" following the release of an EP by Gabriele Morgan which featured Michael Penn on guitar and bass, in 1981, but quickly shortened the band's name to just" Doll Congress" as Michael Penn took over some of the lead vocals and shared the songwriting with Gabriele Morgan.
The band was popular locally, but found it difficult to spread this success any further.
Doll Congress released two records, including the 1983 self- titled 12" record on the Enigma Records label, with three songs: a cover of" Concrete and Clay"( originally by Unit 4+ 2), and two originals;" Easy To Touch" sung by Morgan, and" The Main" sung by Penn.
" The Main" featured the steady beating of a suspended steel pipe for percussion, which was often used in their live performances.
They also had two tracks on the soundtrack to the teen flick," Welcome to 18", released in 1986:" Give Up Your Ghost" and" I Will Be Around"
They played their last gig in February, 1987.
Michael Penn went on to make his first solo LP for RCA Records entitled" March", released in 1989, which featured six songs written and performed during his time in Doll Congress.
Boheme (album)
Boheme is the second album of the French duo Deep Forest, released in 35 countries.
It mainly sampled Eastern European gypsy songs( i.e. the Bohemians, hence the name of the album) with electronic music.
Hit singles included" Marta's Song"( featuring Márta Sebestyén) and" Freedom Cry".
The album became the duo's most successful one, selling over 4 million copies, receiving Diamond, Platinum and Gold awards in 15 countries and winning the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.
The song" Freedom Cry" caused controversy when it was revealed that the singer, Károly Rostás(" Huttyán"), never received any monetary compensation from the song, and neither did his family after he died in 1986.
His singing, archived by Claude Flagel, was sampled by Deep Forest.
Flagel allegedly paid Huttyán 1500 forints for the recording.
The case was later documented in a movie entitled" Huttyán", released in 1996.
The Gypsy relatives did succeed to some extent to get money from Deep Forest.
Deep Forest
Deep Forest is a musical group originally consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet.
They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats.
Their sound has been described as an" ethno- introspective ambient world music".
They were nominated for a Grammy Award in 1994 for Best World Music Album, and in 1995 they won the Award for the album" Boheme".
The group also became World Music Awards Winner – French group with the highest 1995 world sales.
Their albums have sold over 10 million copies.
Sanchez started his own career as a singer on 2005, while Mouquet continued working under the band's original name.
Made in Japan (Deep Forest album)
Made in Japan is a live album by French group Deep Forest, released in 1999.
The recording took place on 9 September 1998, during Deep Forest's tour in Japan, with nine musicians joining the group on the stage.
The band placed an emphasis on improvisation and playing the songs differently from the recordings.
The voices of the three singers were mixed with pre-recorded samples.
More than 150,000 copies of the album have been sold.
Comparsa (album)
Comparsa is the third studio release by the musical group Deep Forest in January 1998.
This album mixes world music and ethnic sounds, including Cuban rhythms, mixed with electronic instruments.
After the release of the album Deep Forest arranged a highly successful world tour.
Comparsa became# 8 French export album of 1998 and was certified Platinum by SNEP Export Awards, with more than 500,000 albums sold outside France.
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Deep Forest (disambiguation)
Deep Forest may refer to:
Deep Forest (Do As Infinity album)
Deep Forest is an album by Do As Infinity which was released in 2001.

Question: Are both Doll Congress and Deep Forest from the same country?
Answer: no