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Randy
Krbechek's Metronews August 9, 1995
Deep Forest's self-titled debut album (which boasts of strong Japanese and Eastern influences) was released in the U.S. in April 1993, and is a worldwide hit: gold-plus in both the U.S. and Britain, double platinum in Australia, a best-seller throughout Europe and Japan, and a Grammy award nominee.
After experimenting with samples of her voice, Sanchez and Mouquet brought Marta from her home in Budapest to Lille, France to record new renditions of traditional melodies. Marta's lovely vocals were then submitted to Deep Forest's splicing, editing and sequencing techniques. Boheme is a "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a wide sense, including gypsy songs, echoes of Inuit (Eskimo), Mongolian, and Balinese voices to produce post-techno, post-ambient dance music.
Boheme is different and unique. Fans of world beat and tribal music (including last year's great Moroccan release from Khaled) will love this disc.
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Deep
Forest, Boheme (550 Music/Epic 1995) - The French duo
of Michael Sanchez and Eric Mouquet
- the creative entity known as Deep Forest - extend their
musical adventure into a mysterious and alluring territory on Boheme.
With melodies and rhythms that range from Middle Eastern to
Middle European to the Far East, Boheme is a treasure
of ethnic music dressed in a dancebeat package.
In
the follow-up, Sanchez and Mouquet traveled to Translyvania (no
kidding!), where they found the quicksilver voice of Marta
Sebestyen, who is best known in the West as the lead singer for
the Hungarian traditional group, Muzsikas,
with whom she has released three U.S. albums.
There's
no easy way to describe this music, as it blends a huge variety
of ethnic and world beat music. Highlights include the lovely
"Marta's Song" (which was heard on the soundtrack to Robert
Altman's Pret a Porter), which features
Marta's haunting voice and an invigorating string section, and
"Freedom Cry," which opens with an African-style
vocal introduction before proceeding to a jaunty,
accordion-driven melody.