Deep Forest

Deep Forest

Deep Forest is a French music project that originally began as a duo consisting of Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet, who created a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance or chillout beats. Deep Forest's sound has been described as an "ethno-introspective ambient world music".

Deep Forest (Deep Forest album)

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.

Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as, "Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban use." Using this definition, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 found that forests covered 4.14 billion hectares, or approximately 31 percent of the world's land area in 2025.

deep

Adjective

1. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.

Adverb

1. Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
2. In a profound, not superficial, manner.

forest

Noun

1. A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
2. Any dense collection or amount.

Verb

1. To cover an area with trees.