Deep Forest

1992 debut album by Deep Forest

AlbumalbumQ525379

Performer: Deep Forest
Released: 1992
Label: 550 Music
Genre: world music
, ambient music
, dance music
Tracklist: Sweet Lullaby
Producer: Guilain Joncheray
, Dan Lacksman

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

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 (1977) and Polyphony of Deep Rain Forest – The Music of the Pygmy in Ituri.

Overview

All data

34 statements · 41% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Followed by: World Mix
Distribution format: music streaming
Place of publication: France
Follows: none
Title: Deep Forest
Form of creative work: studio album
Number of parts of this work: 11 audio track
Different from: Deep Forest
Language: Baka

On other databases

14 identifiers linking Deep Forest across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

41%

externally sourced

Source last edited July 16, 2026. AIDb refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q525379

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDb. (2026). Deep Forest (Q525379). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/deep-forest-Q525379