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Rajasthan Deep Forest & Rahul Sharma Deep India by Deep Forest & Rahul Sharma

Artist Biography For Deep Forest & Rahul Sharma

Deep Forest Blends Its Signature Sound With Indian Folk Compositions By Rahul Sharma. The Pair Will Tour India Says Shana M Verghis Both Men Have Been Busy Travelling With Various Concerts. However Eric Mouqet The French Musician Famous As The Name Behind The Group Deep Forest And Santoor Player Rahul Sharma Have Been Working Across Skype For A Collaborative Album On The Sony Music Entertainment Label Called Deep India. Mouquet Who Operates Out Of A Studio “in A Small French Village With 100 People Bordering A Field And An Actual Forest ” Is Arranging Deep India Based On Compositions By Sharma. The Latter Created Eight Fresh Tracks Featuring Indian Folk Numbers. “Jammu And Kashmir Kerala Coorg Maharashtra Have All Been Included ” Shared Sharma Who Chose Vocalists And Instrumentalists He Has Known Over Years Including Several He Met During The Ruhaniyat Festival. “So Apart From My Santoor There Will Be Dhols Playing Maharashtrian Lehzim And A Punjabi Sufi Song. A Female Voice Will A Sing Assamese Bihu Song And There Will Rajasthani Gipsy Voices ” Explained Sharma. Having Done Classical And Fusion The Santoor Player Is Now Turning Music Composer On Vivek Agnihotri’s Movie Freedom Set In The 80s About Youngsters And A Philosophical Idea . Soft-Spoken Eric Moquet Told Us Over The Phone From France On A Cold Wintery Day That He “came To Mumbai To Record Indian Music For An Earlier Album ” But Never Played Here Before. He Will Now “fly Down With My Band For A Concert In Madikeri In Coorg On December 15 With Rahul Sharma.” He Might “also Play In Bengaluru With January Shows In Delhi And Mumbai.” Though He Briefly Went To A Conservatory Eric Said His Musical Experience Has Been Mainly Through “meeting Other Musicians And Collaborating In My Studio.” He Developed A Unique Sound — What He Calls “my Tricks ” And Employed This On Projects With Global Musicians Like Youssou D’ Nour Catherine Lara And Josh Groban With Whom He Arranged Two Albums . He Is Famous For The Sweet Lullaby Which Used Voices Of Singers From The Solomon Islands. The Sounds Have Been Ambient But He Is He Now Shifting To Electro And Has Ideas Involving East European Musicians. He Prefers Not To Describe What He Makes As ‘world Music ’ Remarking “I Am Not A Singer. For Me Its Not About Collecting People And Places. I’d Say Its More Through Accidental Encounters. “World Music Tends To Relate To New Age But Its Different For Me. Some Of Rahul’s Music Has Sounds From The Village To Which I Added Dubstep For Instance.” He Said “I’ve Generally Worked With Good Musicians Without Pre-Set Ideas. I Relate To The Emotional Content Of Music. The Best Part Is When A Stranger Tells You How It Changed Their Lives.” But Having Worked With Songwriters He Remarked “that’s Another Style. It Presents Music In A Technical Way And Is Not Free. Unlike The Album With Rahul.” Sharma Concluded “This Is A Genuine Collaboration As Opposed To Projects Where A Company Owns Track Rights And Gets An Indian Musician To Contribute. At Coorg I Might Join Eric On Sweet Lullaby.”

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