''Comparsa'' is the third studio release by the musical group
Deep Forest
Deep Forest is a French music project that originally began as a duo consisting of Michel Sanchez (musician), Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electro ...
in December 1997.
Deep Forest III: Comparsa
/ref> This album mixes world music and ethnic sounds, including Cuban rhythms, mixed with electronic instruments. After the release of the album Deep Forest arranged a highly successful world tour. Comparsa became #8 French export album of 1997 and was certified Platinum by SNEP
SNEP (, in English National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry. Originally known under the acronym SNICOP, the organisation was established in ...
Export Awards, with more than 500,000 albums sold outside France.
Track listing
# "Noonday Sun" – 4:59
# "Green and Blue" – 4:53
# "Madazulu" – 3:23
# "1716" – 1:03
# "Deep Weather" – 4:54
# "Comparsa" – 4:58
# "Earthquake (Transition 1)" – 0:48
# "Tres Marias" – 4:53
# "Radio Belize" – 3:58
# "Ekue Ekue" – 5:20
# "La Lune Se Bat Avec Les Étoiles (Transition 2)" – 2:27
# "Forest Power" – 3:47
# "Media Luna" – 4:32
# "Alexi" (Japanese Edition Bonus Track)
# "Freedom Cry" (Japanese Edition Bonus Track)
Bonus Disc:
# "Sweet Lullaby (Remix)"
# "Deep Forest (RLP Trance Mix)"
# "Marta's Song (Armand's Muslim Moose Mix)"
# "Madazulu (BBE Harmonic Club Mix)"
Personnel
* Eric Mouquet – arrangement
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, keyboards, programming
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* Program m ...
* Michel Sanchez – arrangement, keyboards, programming
* Ana Torroja
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– vocals on "Media Luna"
* Jorge Reyes (musician)
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– percussion, vocals, and flute
* Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul ( '; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to bec ...
– synthesizer
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on "Deep Weather"
Reception
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1997 albums
Deep Forest albums
550 Music albums