Article: Deep Forest: Dancing To Save The Pygmies

Paul Geitner
New York Beacon, The
03-04-1994
Deep Forest: Dancing To Save The Pygmies.

NEW YORK -- It takes a bold record producer to put such a solemn incantation at the beginning of an album and not expect to get more snickers than sales.

But anyone who'd think of combining centuries-old Pygmy chants from central Africa with Europop rhythms and a synthesized dance beat obviously is not risk averse.

The result is "Deep Forest," a collection of ethereal dance tracks with the professed aim _ according to the liner notes _ of "gathering all peoples and joining all continents through the universal language of music."

It already has garnered fans in France, where it was released in 1992, and ...

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