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Deep Forest: Comparsa

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Artist: Deep Forest
Title: Comparsa
Released: 1998.02.17
Label: Saint George Recordings
Time: 48:55
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Electronic / World Music
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.10.04
Price in €: 10,99
Web address: www.deepforestmusic.com

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[1] Noonday Sun (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:59
[2] Green and Blue (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:53
[3] Madazulu (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:23
[4] 1716 (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 1:03
[5] Deep Weather (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:54
[6] Comparsa (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:58
[7] Earthquake (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 0:48
[8] Tres Marias (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:53
[9] Radio Belize (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:58
[10] Ekue Ekue (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 5:20
[11] La Lune Se Bat Avec Les Éroiles (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 2:27
[12] Forest Power (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 2:47
[13] Media Luna (Azrie/Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:32

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ERIC MOUQUET - Keyboards, Vocoder, Arranger, Engineer, Vocoder, Mixing, Producer
MICHEL SANCHEZ - Accordion, Keyboards, Hammond B3, Arranger, Engineer, Mixing, Producer

JORGE REYES - Flute, Percussion, Vocals
JOE ZAWINUL - Synthesizer
NEIL CONTI - Drums
OSWALDO HERNANDEZ - Flute, Percussion, Vocals
GILLES CAGIN - Saxophone
FRED SAVINIEN Caprais - Percussion

ABED AZRIÉ - Vocals
MADAME SANA - Vocals
ANA TORROJA - Vocals
ALEX ZAYAS - Vocals
GRAND MASTER LEE - Vocals
MARCELLA LEWIS - Vocals
WES MADIKO - Vocals
ETHNIE MIKEA - Vocals
ROBERTO PALILLO - Vocals
ORLANDO PUNTILLA - Vocals
LALA RAHARIMALA - Vocals
MONIKA RASOANIRINA - Vocals
MARIA SABINA - Vocals
ETHNIE SAKALAVA - Vocals
ETHNIE ANTANDROY - Vocals
MARIA MORAIMA VARONA CABALLERO - Vocals
GINO CECCARELLI - Vocals
MARIE CECCARELLI - Vocals
GUILLERMO CRESPO - Vocals
FRANCK BENITO FRANCISCO - Vocals

VLADIMIR MELLER - Mastering
ANDY SCOTT - Engineer, Mixing
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE POLIEN - Photography
YAN LEUVREY - Photography
THOMAS RUCKSTUHL - Photography
BENOIT TEILLET - Photography
LAURENT EDELINE - Design
GUILLEMETTE GOBBI - Design  

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1998 CD 550 Music 68726
1998 CS Sony 68726
1998 CD Sony 68726
2001 SCD Sony 68726



Deep Forest's third album Comparsa continues the world-music potpourri Deep Forest is known for, though there is a pronounced focus on Latin and Caribbean grooves, provided by musicians from Cuba, Belize, Mexico and Madagascar, among other places. Although the nationalities present are truly global, the actual sound of Deep Forest hasn't changed that much, centering mostly on lush new age music with just a bit more of an edge than is usual, plus several tracks with whispered or restrained vocals. For fans of the debut album, Comparsa is a noteworthy, though hardly necessary, acquisition.

John Bush, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
CDUniverse.com


Die sinnliche Melange aus Afro-Stammesgesängen, Folklore, Dance-Rhythmen und Chorälen geht unter die Haut. Zu seinem dritten Ethno-Manifest holte sich das französische Duo Unterstützung von Sänger Wes Madiko und Jazzlegende Joe Zawinul.

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"Noonday Sun": For cultural imperialism as curatorial droit de siegnor, this one is better than most; it keeps touching the lands it samples. See, when the township m'banqa horns start burbling in, you get jitney jaunty, like a vacation mood. Sonic sunshine prevails, with clouds over the Celts like driftforest Dublin, to the point where, between the keens & choruses, you cease to care if it's Emerald Isle shanties or strangulated- croons- in- odd- registers- via- gated- mike- break pygmy vocals. (See Deep Forest I.) When a Colombian/ Venezulean valnetta melody checks in, the coke barons of the hills race downslope to a speed reed squeeze. A North African trip at the end adds just one more chance to make a bizarre combo, when it gets into an Enya-ish duet. Maybe a tad too New Ageist, true, but the synthesizer smoothers just mean it blends into the background, and jumps out too. Actually pretty catchy... if you soak in it. Casual listeners may wait for it to appear at your local chi-chi bistro during the cocktail hour.

Carle VP Groome - February 16, 1998
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Although it could be too soon to make this call, Deep Forest just may have produced the house cleaning album of the year. Their third album, Comparsa, contains the kind of bouncy, mindless fun that whisks one away from the task at hand to infinite and impossibly exotic distances. This is not to say the music itself is mindless, so much as the entire experience is akin to watching a foreign film sans subtitles. The album does contain raw emotions like joy, anger, hope and despair that, whether shrieked by pygmies or chanted by nomads, ring clear as a bell. This is a testament to Deep Forest's voiceless musical duo, Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez, who trot the globe as self described "sound reporters," but also to the universality of music itself. A lyric sheet in the liner notes would provide a welcome Rosetta stone for those interested in forging beyond the pure exotica of the listening experience, but one is occasionally tipped off by titles like "Radio Belize." With influences as geographically diverse as Cuba and Madagascar and musically varied as zydeco and polka, one is in for quite a bumpy ride, but that could be more of a beef with the world music genre than this particular album which is well produced and exhilarating. And although these songs may not be showing up on the neighborhood karaoke machine anytime soon, dust bunnies are already quaking with fear.

Tony Phillips - VH1 Online
© 1999 Viacom International Inc.



You are walking down a narrow street in Paris and suddenly you're struck by a lively sound funneling towards you -- music that is initially unfamiliar, but is immediately captivating. You go in for a closer look and listen, stepping rhythmically in time to what you hear. Around the corner, a band of men are playing guitars and exotic percussion instruments at full speed in front of a pleased crowd of other passersby. While you speculate that perhaps they hail originally from South America, you toss a few bits of currency into their kitty, because music like that is a gift you cannot accept freely. It's turned your day around into something suddenly and unexpectedly bright. What you may not know, is that you also have just encountered a "comparsa." To capture the feeling of an encounter such as this is the aim of self-described world music "reporters" Deep Forest. On their third album, Comparsa, the Deep Forest team of Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez try to bring their audience the sun from warmer climes through their festive up beats and global samples. Both Northern Frenchmen, Mouquet and Sanchez travel the earth in search of often startlingly beautiful and compelling sounds. They first got our attention in 1992 with their eponymous platinum-selling album and its poignant single -- complete with Pygmy vocals and lush joy -- "Sweet Lullaby." "Comparsa" is a Cuban word meaning "partners." It is also used to describe street music of the type described in the aforementioned fictional scene. Yet a third meaning could be Deep Forest's musical partnership with the world and its harder-to-find sounds. Research for Comparsa took the duo to Mexico, Belize, and to the isle of Madagascar. They came away with music that at moments begs you to bang the pi"ata. In other instances, it insists that you rejoice in the sucking of a tequila-soaked worm before a bonfire that brilliantly reflects off a night sky so riddled with stars that awe overtakes you. Tracks like "Noonday Sun" and "Forest Power" make sitting still impossible. Others like "Tres Marias" and "La Lune se bat avec les etoiles (transition 2)" merely ask you politely to tap your sandal- clad foot on the hot terra firma. But overall, the album is Latin and African beats from end to end. And all 13 tracks sport Deep Forest's signature sounds, such as the distant vocals in foreign tongues. One could say that Comparsa is Deep Forest's party album. If you are unable to attend the world party, Deep Forest will be more than happy to bring the world party to you.

Alexandra Flood
© 1999 MTV Networks. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.



For over six years, Deep Forest's controversial sonic Cuisinart has been slicing, dicing and pureeing world music into bland techno-scapes, hitting commercial paydirt with each release. And like its predecessors, Comparsa's runny combination of influences barely holds together. The disc finds traditional African, Cuban and French music merged with a heavy dose of Euro-dance beats and twiddly synth sounds. The result is little more than monotonous sonic sludge that's far from the sum of its parts.

Anil Prasad - Dirty Linen



Deep Forest emerged in as a unique phenomenon in the '90s, employing the ambient musical techniques established in the '70s and '80s, but with an added twist. Using natural sounds and souped-up technology to create something of a world-music/ambient/techno fusion, Deep Forest captured the imagination and ears of millions of listeners. COMPARSA represents not a departure so much as a strengthening of position. Deep Forest finds those elements of their sound that speak most directly to the listener and expands on them to fine effect. Fans of their music will be slightly surprised at some of the new timbres and rhythms on COMPARSA, but they will certainly not come away dissapointed.

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