Deep Forest is a French music project that originally began as a duo consisting of 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".
Éric Mouquet, co-founder of Deep Forest, performing live on stage.
Members of Deep Forest accepting applause with the folk group Oyme after a 2017 concert.
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's broad nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in Roots magazine's description of the genre as "local music from out there".
Delhi 2 Dublin in 2012
Alan Stivell in concert at Brest (Brittany), 2013
Vampire Weekend performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 2013
Paul Simon had released a Southern African music-influenced album after falling in love with this music.