Defend the Indefensible: "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0pegmmB5A

i used to sit in the back of sunday class with my hoody on over headphones playing this single on my walkman

alternating with return to innocence

*sunday school class

Mbuti pygmy chanting - Classic or Badass?

totally love this Deep Forest song by the way. and the album has a couple of other total guilty pleasures as well, especially 'Hunting'

Somewhere, deep in the jungle, are living some little men and women. They are our past. And, maybe... Maybe they are our future...

i can't get with this at all--it totally activates the barf-o-meter

c'mon! sub-soul2soul drum loop knockoffs set to samples of water drumming from Simha Arom's Cameroon Baka Pgymy Music record? count me in

don't get me wrong, almost everything they added to those sounds is offensive, and the record label's conduct and the countless international advertising campaigns launched on the back of their tune only underlines the problem. but at the same time, the original sounds are so strong, they survive everything, so I take this not as vandalism but as proof of a certain kind of immortality. every single horrible production choice just ends up being more evidence of how incredible Afunawka's song is, at which point, I just begin being glad that her song was brought to my attention

and I also have to admit, as far as what they added, the way the chords they padded under her don't resolve until the final line is very effective, if obvious

also: the guy with the pitched down voice saying the 'little men and women' line is Dan Lacksman of Telex, pummeling that thin line between clever and stupid out of existence

& my favorite part about the 'Zaire Pygmy Fund' that the liner notes of this album proudly claim to be contributing to with every sale of the album: it turns out not to be going to any Pygmies who still live in any rainforest, but rather it goes to a fund that helps pygmies relocate after the rainforests they had been living in for thousands of years have been destroyed by those cities

the best one can do I guess. although musicologist Stephen Feld also did some research on the tax refunds of the Zaire Pygmy Fund and saw no noticable difference in their tax returns from the years before and after the release of an album that sold four million copies, let alone generated god knows how many revenues from advertising.

my only point is that this song is totally interesting

I got that

My brother was lying on his bed listening to the cassingle of this. He said to me "you don't know how to relax, you don't have ANY music as relaxing as THIS"

I find this one rather amazing for managing to create a rather enjoyable recording out of elements that would have largely given me no musical pleasure at all separately each on their own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmBOnMJJkE

this song is good IMO

i mean the new gang gang dance isn't too far away from this, other than being a bit warped

Ross do u change your display name like once per hour(?)

twice actually

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