(House, Tribal, Ambient) Deep Forest (Discography) & Projects (Catherine Lara, Dao Dezi, Eric Mouquet, Michel Sanchez, Pangea, Thorgal, Wes) - 54 Releases - 1992-2018, APE (image+.cue), FLAC (tracks +.cue / tracks), lossless

Dear friends,
As a thank you, I am happy to reveal the tracklisting for Evo-Devo!
01: Simply Done (3:09)
02: Stutter Dream (3:59)
03: B-Vatar (3:27)
04: Oyme’s Song (5:14)
05: Somewhere (4:40)
06: Happy Tribe (3:50)
07: Tibet (4:52
)
08: Singing with the birds (3:59
)
09: Blue Story (5:15)
10: Dead Forest (3:31)
11: Continuum’s Song (3:02)
Simply Done
Music Eric Mouquet/Oyme, featuring Oyme on vocals.
Oyme is one of the most outstanding ethno-bands of Russia. I met them at a festival in Moscow. They sent me some vocal tracks to play with. Listening to the rare Mordovian polyphony performed by Oyme, their distinct style and harmonies, I got the idea of recreating the atmosphere of Deep Forests Grammy Award winning album “Boheme”.
Stutter Dream
Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Lyonel Bauchet on Buchla
I like to experiment with the pace of a song. Nowadays dancemusic seems to be stuck in the 4-to-the-beat schematic, but there is so much more to rhythm than a straight 4/4. Even on danceable tracks you could add some polyrhythmic groove. So in the middle of this track I composed a piano melody based on a polyrhythmic pattern 6/4 and 7/4 at the same time on both hands. Some fun to play…. The amazing Buchla 200e patched by Lyonel Bauchet brings some spices to the track.
B-Vatar
Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Lyonel Bauchet on Buchla
Originally, I recorded this piano-improvisation just for fun. It was inspired by the music of German composer and musician Nils Frahm. The delay I applied to the instrument produces a sequence with which I play. Further along analogue synths enrich the pattern by repeating them at different intervals. I close with a simple sequence played with a fat analogue bass sound on the Oberheim OB-Mx . The title of the track is B-Vatar because A-Vatar was already taken…
Somewhere
Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Paco Sery on drums, featuring Eugene Mishustin (voice narration) and Ilya Truskovsky (voice narration design)
I love Skrillex! The first time I heard him, I thought these could be Deep Forest samples. It is not so much the sound itself, but rather how Skrillex played with these sample tips. I was told that he once mentioned Deep Forest in an interview. I’m not sure, but anyway, I feel a connection, a common approach in the treatment of samples. In this track, which begins with a vocal-nod to the first Deep Forest album (“Somewhere, deep in the jungle…”), I had fun with some samples and dub sounds. I love it….
Happy Tribe
Music Eric Mouquet
I have always been fascinated by the hymns sung in stadiums: Different rhythms and tones, different timing, all of that ended up giving an overwhelming clamor, roar, outcry.
I recorded all these voices from various venues and then I began to re-organize them into a unique melody. The sources are many and I think with all the editing work and reconstruction you listen to more than 100 000 people singing this melody …. Totally virtual!
Tibet

Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Paco Sery on drums
In this track, it is the spirit of the Himalayas that inspired me: These Tibetan horns and analog synths to respond evoking the grandeur and magic of this region. The powerful drums are played by Paco Sery. Paco is an exceptional musician with a boundless creativity, everything becomes music in his hands. Joe Zawinul once said, Paco is the best drummer in the world. He was not wrong.
Singing with the birds
Music Eric Mouquet.
Olivier Messiaen once wrote different pieces of music based on the birds singing. I always found this idea fascinating. So I started to record some birds in the nature. One day while working in the studio, I began to imagine a dialogue between the synth and the birds. After a lot of time experimenting with the idea, this track came to life.
Blue Story
Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Lyonel Bauchet on Buchla
Again a petit melodica melody in this track and a simple piano theme. It is another homage to “Boheme” but this time instead of using a Bulgarian choir I turned an African voice into a balcanic feel. The meaning of this? In Music, everything is possible. There are no frontiers for a voice.
Dead Forest
Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Lyonel Bauchet on Buchla
I was inspired by a time-lapse video of a forest season cycle, starting from winter to spring, summer to autumn and then winter in an infinite loop. A stereo synth-bass sequence is the origin of this track. Stereo bass is not really usual and generally a producer will avoid it, but after all, why not? Then I asked my friend Lyonel Bauchet to add some sequences from the Buchla 200e. Giving to the track a hypnotic evolving electronic loop. He perfectly mastered his huge modular synth.
Continuum’s Song
Music Eric Mouquet, featuring Eugene Mishustin Strings Arrangements
It started with an improvisation on the Continuum just before dinner. When the friends arrived, I recorded it to keep the addictive sound in mind. What I did, was programming an accordion or harmonium sound on a keyboard for the left hand and I improvised that melody with the other hand on the Continuum. I put that track aside for a while, thinking it would be too different to fit into this album. Then I got the idea to ask my friend Eugene Mishustin to write a string arrangement. His Russian classical music training was perfect to contribute to the melancholic end of the albums journey.

Eric Mouquet.