Deep Africa

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Deep Africa
Deep Africa -- album cover.jpg
Studio album by Deep Forest
Released April 2, 2013
Genre Electronic, World Music
Label Station 5 3717526
Producer Deep Forest/Eric Mouquet
Deep Forest chronology
Deep India
(2013)		Deep Africa
(2013)

Deep Africa is a studio album by Eric Mouquet of the French duo Deep Forest released in 2013 by the label Station 5. [1] [2] It contains vocal samples and singing in various African languages. The album features African singers such as Blick Bassy and Wasis Diop.

Deep Forest French music group

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.

Blick Bassy is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter. His song Kiki from the album Ako featured as the theme song for the worldwide launch of the iPhone 6 in 2015.

Wasis Diop is a Senegalese musician of international renown, known for blending traditional Senegalese folk music with modern pop and jazz. The son of a Senegalese high official and member of the Lebou ethnic group, Diop left Senegal in the 1970s to study engineering in Paris, but once there turned to music, joining a fellow Senegalese musician, Umban Ukset, in forming the band West African Cosmos. Diop left the band in 1979 to start a solo career, and over the next decade achieved some small success, particularly in partnerships with singer Marie-France Anglade of Black Heritage, and jazz saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu. It was not until the early 1990s that his career began to take off, with the success of his first album, the soundtrack to the film Hyenes. Variety described his soundtrack to 2006's Daratt from Chad as "outstanding". His mother was Binta Diop.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Amber Opening - 3:15
  2. Dub Africa - 2:44
  3. Mosika - 5:13
  4. Yelele - 4:17
  5. Bedi - 4:31
  6. Atali Wowo - 4:44
  7. Wasis - 6:55
  8. Zoulawa - 3:48
  9. Ho Mambo - 3:33
  10. Alaake - 3:38
  11. Lomo - 1:00
  12. How Long It Takes? - 6:38
  13. Tiko - 4:42
  14. Mosika Ending - 1:08

US bonus tracks

  1. Mawa (Bonus Track) - 3:02
  2. Soweto (Bonus Track) - 4:28
  3. Dub Africa (Gaudi Remix) - 7:31

Note
The US edition of this CD contains three bonus tracks. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Deep Forest go African".
  2. ↑ "Deep Forest / Eric Mouquet - Deep Africa".
  3. ↑ "Deep Forest / Eric Mouquet - Deep Africa".
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