The following is a message from Eric Mouquet:Hello my friends,
I'm so glad to finally have this project available in June. I have spend two years working with
Flavio Dell 'Isola, not every day of course, but the music was always on my mind. This album is very important to me. After many wonderful collaborations with artists such as
Josh Groban, I'm back with this album of music which is closer to the
Deep Forest music inspiration.
The meeting with Flavio was the starting point of this adventure. When Flavio came to my studio for the very first time, I was absolutly sure that we could create music together. Because I had never been to Brasil, I asked Flavio to tell me about his country, and he started to write some lyrics while I was improvising music. And step by step we were able to compose all these songs.
The first song we did was
Amazonia, this is the only song with French lyrics in the chorus, "Il faut sauver l'Amazonie" "We must save Amazonia". During a session, my children Ange and Ambre were in the studio. They seemed to be intrigued by the birds singing on my piano, and so I started to explain to them about Amazonia. Their reaction was...Il faut sauver l'Amazonie... I decided to record them and add their sweet voices to the end of the song. Ambre (she was just starting to speak) is trying to repeat the same words as her brother...les
oiseaux...pipit...les grenouilles...nounouilles...les serpents...serpent....we were so moved in the studio that even now when I listen to this part of the song, tears are coming! I really hope for them that we will not only save Amazonia, but the Earth.
Deep Brasil will be available mainly as an internet edition. I will soon give all of you the information on how to obtain it.I'm already working on two different projects, including
Deep Africa featuring great African singers (You will be surprised!). This album goes back to the roots of the first
Deep Forest album...
I'm also working with a wonderful Chinese artist named
Sa Dingding. We will travel around China to collect music and sounds from this vast country. We have already composed several songs and the
Deep China album will be ready in 2009.
I hope you'll enjoy all this music
Amicalement
Eric Mouquet