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Deep Forest is the first studio album by the musical group Deep Forest, consisting of French duo Éric 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 for Best Global Music Album in 1994. For Sanchez and Mouquet, the most important purpose of the album was to express their fascination with the Efé people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to raise awareness of their quickly vanishing culture. As Mouquet noted, "It's not very often you can hear a Pygmy singing on the radio". Although some critics have argued that this purpose was never realised, for no Efé or Pygmy people featured on the album, samples of Pygmy music were in fact used on the record, albeit to a limited degree. The songs "Sweet Lullaby", "Hunting", and "Night Bird" feature three samples taken from the albums Cameroon: Baka Pygmy Music and Polyphony of Deep Rain Forest – The Music of the Pygmy in Ituri. More than 3,5 million units of Deep Forest were sold worldwide. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Fo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
