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  • dope

    

  • Well whether it was plageiarized or not, i'm most certainly glad to have been able to hear the beauty of the voice along with the collaborations of the music, it most definately speaks to an inner part of my soul. And whoevers material it is i'm glad its out there to where i was able to experience it!

  • Nigdy nie czułem się tak zrelaksowany...

  • this song is so good 5*

  • beutifull and special song i enjoy to hear this masterpeace

  • Can someone tell me what language is this? Thanks

  • wouldn't have coped well with the day after the made night before without deep forest - amazing to hear it again, brings back so many memories x

  • @benjesolems same, same

  • what are the instruments played in this music?

  • Original Acapella version By afunakwa is on Youtube. search for

    "Beagu -- Rorogwela (Sweet Lullaby) Sung by Afunakwa 1969 " posted by alanokpechi

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  • I love this song makes me feel more humane. I also enjoyed the video. Thank you for posting it.

  • It's very important to know that Deep Forest had plagiarized this lullaby which had been recorded by an ethnomusicologist (Hugo Zemp). The singer is called Afunakwa, from the Salomon Island.She never had been ok for that, even Hugo Zemp who attacked them in justice but nothing has been made.They want to "preserved" cultures, but their actions are the opposite of that. Afunakwa never had been payed, and it's NOT FROM AFRICA! so, please, we have to say and to know the truth. Sorry for my english!

  • @mimie0301 The lullaby sung by Afunakwa was used as a vocal sample in Sweet Lullaby. The music is Deep Forest's. One has to commend Deep Forest to bring to the world the beauty of and make known the music of these cultures. It's a great combination of western music and the lullaby music from Solomon Islands.

  • @lemaindeuday The sung of Afunakwa, even if it's "only" a vocal sample, is in fact the most important part in this song nop? Yes of course they can use this lullaby, but in rules, and they don't have to do that against the will of the real author. And by the way, because they put "western music" with this lullaby, they deform the song, so it's not really "the music of these cultures", because in these cultures, there's a signification, they're not sung this way...

  • @mimie0301 You may be right in one way, but in another way, because this song was ultimately a big hit, more people now know about the existence of such local music. At least, I wouldn't have otherwise known, and only those who studied ethnomusicology would have known.

  • @lemaindeuday ok, I agree with that ;)

  • @mimie0301 Technically they didn't plagiarize the clip. When the singer (Afunakwa) gave ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp the right to record her singing in 1970, that was her consent for the clip to be used however Zemp deemed fit. He then years later allowed the UNESCO to include it in a collection of cultural music sources. Deep Forest got the clip via that collection, which, from what I understand, was essentially a public access collection. So, Zemp was the first to mess up by lending it out.

  • @Louski I'm sorry but I study ethnomusicology, and I know Hugo Zemp. The real "story" is that UNESCO asked him a lot of time to use this lullaby but Zemp wasn't agree. Except one time, for a conference, but after, Zemp was against all the ways of using this music. They didn't respect this whish , even if it can be a way of sharing music from different cultures, it's not a good way...(it would be easier for me if I could speak french^^)

  • @mimie0301 But at the same time nobody would have heard Afunakwa if they had not made it into this song.

  • @MrDanielTynan Yes but I'm not sure it was really her whish and her target, and in fact, nobody (or few people) know she's called Afunakwa, and we don't know what she looks like, how old she's, and every body don't care about that...

  • @mimie0301 really? aww man that sucks :c i always thought the world of these songs xD

  • 19 people are lost in the forest!

  • This reminds me of my dead pet.

  • @Richtofen4President what animal was it? :(

  • i am here cause im trying to find matt.... :)

  • I love this. The song is about an older sister telling her little brother to behave good or he will get in trouble.

  • Does anyone know what the lyrics mean? It will be nice to find an english translation to this...

  • @marieschild Young brother, young brother you be quiet

    Although you are crying to me

    Your father has left us

    He has gone to the place of the dead

    Protect the head of the living, Protect the orphan child

    Young brother, young brother hey? although you are crying to me

    Your father has left us

    He has gone to the place of the dead

    Protect the head of the living, protect the orphan child

  • Spiritual Demo

  • our world i amazing!

  • i need a loop button

  • Wonderful song...Love it...Thumbd up.

  • what a nice loving flow :) i love the feeling i got from listening to it

  • Hehehe. Spiritual Demoman's theme...

  • This song is based off a lullaby from the Solomon Islands, in the pacific, ans slightly north of Australia.

    AKA: Not Africa.

  • @spinkick21 Crap, I mean Northeast.

  • This sounds like a South African tune even though I have never been to South Africa, nor have I ever listened to South African music.

  • @xXBronzedBalletXx no it's not South African rather it's from the Solomon Island, I think you saying that it could be South African because of the other music video to this song which has Ndebele people of South Africa. It doesn't make sense because the language that the song is sung in id not Ndebele but I think the song applies to every tribe or race around the world.

  • the17 people that do not like to eat poop

  • Beautiful song

  • This is a great song to listen to on Entheogens.

  • Solomon Islands......

  • Thank you SO much for posting this. I heard the original version of this on Gaia Radio this morning (first time in 15 years,) and just had to find out the title and artist. After 4 hours of Googling, etc, I came upon this by chance. I LOVE this song still. It sends a chill down my spine still, all these years later.

  • lets help africa ..lets be human....once time

  • Excellent version,to hear on te hill of the worship of Huautla Oaxaca.

    Greetings to the village of Maria Sabina.

    Miriam y Braulio.

  • i wish i knew what language or ethnicity of the song?

  • @cokjuice is from Pacific Ocean : Polinezia or sort of it

  • If only u knew the story behind these beautiul people.

  • simply beautiful:))))

  • tellement rafraîchissant ce son....just dream ;) love <3

  • Lightin the bleezy for this one

  • =)) 

  • This are 3:52 min of pure awsomeness!!!

  • 見に来てください

    ヨロシク 

  • Im thinking about starting a stage performance with this deep forest music as the theme,(this song and songs like this song) Plot: a boy falling right down deep into the cracks and crevices of the earth deep into a big sinkhole or something, and then meeting strange weird eccentric creatures, unknown to man because he has fallen sooo deep into the jungle where all these untouched strange troglobite creatures are living in the DEEP FOREST with there adapted bioluminescent patterned bodies.

  • I really want to listen to this song Deep into the madagascan or Amazon rainforest...lying there on a giant leaf with rain trickling on my face,smelling the strange aroma's that fill the jungle air, whilst strange exotic creatures slowly cum out to greet me with a curious but harmless approach; checking who this new eccentric creature is, who warms their territory. ( picture this scene with a setting almost like Avatars Pandora forest whilst at night with its bioluminescent lights)

  • @maseofspades007 Then you get eaten.

  • Entrons ensemble dans ce monde utopique :)

  • min elskelig musik !

  • im 16 and this song makes me get butterflies. it holds memories in the music, i adore this song <3

  • R-r-reeeeeemix!!!

  • makes me want to go to Solomon Islands :D

  • I gotta thank my brother for allowing me to appreciate this type of music. Before I only listened to mainstream and would laugh at something like this, now it seems to be the other way around

  • I can't remember exactly how many times I have listened to this music. If I remember correctly, it was the year 1992 when I was a grad student at IIT-Bombay and one of my friends who happens to be a music lover was playing this music in his room and to say in a word I was simply "spellbound". It opened my eyes in the world of "music". Although its a sad music but I can't stop listening to this music and I feel like I want to live in this beautiful world forever.

  • it's beautiful song :):)

  • I love this song<3...Can someone tell me what language is that? o.o

  • @ArashinoLegacy

    It's an old language of Solomon Islands. Make a search with the words: Where the Hell is Afunakwa? -- and you'll know the story of the singer.

  • 2:11 are the plevitij lakes, those are really beautiful

  • epic

  • Epic

  • precioso

  • When i listen to this song i imagine night sky, big fireplace and people dancing in a circle holding each other hands in somekinda magical island, no hate, no jealousy, only love and caring. Material things come and go , true friendship lasts forever, respect nature and each other. Peace to you all :))

  • demortalizedtheme.wtf

  • @orkkilla5589 idiot.

  • @DoctorRainbow8321 How am I an idiot?

  • this song always makes me tears.... Is so beautiful if i hear this makes me feel in a magikal place somehow.... <3

  • I just love this song and great fan of Deep Forest. Thank you for posting this. :)

  • best song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • They should play this song at the U.N. along with a cool montage of humanity befor each  meeting. Agree??

  • I still have a cassette Deep Forrest at home.

  • I still have a cassette at home.

  • omg... I have been looking for this song for over a YEAR ..... THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!! -fucking dies-

  • @sf04 common dude..

  • dont know what the songs about BUT I LOVE IT!!!!!!

  • I am reminded of driving my huge four wheel drive while burning fossil fuel with a 450 hp V8 up and down highway 17 listening to this tape, yes tape, full blast...just driving and listening. I loved the music, but missed the message. Ah, to be a teenager for me was blissfully unaware, oxymoronic bliss. I killed some trees with that truck which I would now drive off a cliff...in an environmentally friendly way.

  • great song! touch the heart of anybody that want to have real peace

  • so amazingly calming

  • this reminds me of how peaceful i interpreted life when i was younger.

  • Lovely.

  • did this come first or Komodo by Mauro Picotto?

  • I almost canceled this song on Pandora but then when I heard the whole thing I fell in love with it immediately :) and yeah @0pposableThumbs this is my favorite version too :))

  • relax.........

  • Our world could be a better place once everyone wakes up. Ancient cultures didn't worship/favour animals for no reason we are all together under our skin we live in a world for my society anyway in Australia big companies and a 'false reality'

  • 超级好听 似乎yanni也有这么首差不多曲风的 just so beautiful I LIKE IT

  • This sounds dope...

  • I wish I was on a sunny beach right vibing to this, noticing the endless possibilities that lay ahead of me in this beautiful life.

  • i love this song, it was me and my late boyfriends song, for FRED GADWA R.I.P, and this warms my heart.

  • I just love this song

  • I can't express my love for this song, or anything similar for that matter. I'm an 18 year old boy from the East Coast, Noone around here can relate to this kind of music like I can.

  • @coolsunglassesbrah That's a bit arrogant of you to say.

  • @NTBushPilot Not arrogant at all. I apologize if it had came off as arrogance. Believe me I'm not full of myself.

  • @coolsunglassesbrah New Yorker here, I can relate 8) ... Others follow whats popular, but this is amazing music.

  • Whenever I hear this song, it makes me think of the movie Avatar. I think this song would have been a perfect soundtrack song for that movie.

  • @deneb1978 Me too :)

  • This is my favorite song to light up to, hands down.

  • Finnish translation:Nuori veli, nuori sisko hei! vaikka sinä itket

    minulle

    Isäsi on jättänyt meidät

    Hän on mennyt paikkaan kuolleiden

    suojelemaan eläviä, huolehtimaan lapsista orvoista

    Jeesus Kristus on Herra!

  • nature is fucking amazing!!!!!!!!

  • What language is this?

  • @MrsFoy3 nature calls

  • @MrsFoy3 Baegu. Also known as Baeggu. Spoken in part of the Solomon Islands.

  • love the flutes ...

  • I really Love this song....It kinda makes me sad when i listen to it tho because it makes me think of the bad side of our world and makes me want the good side and all the bad things dissapier....our world is very beautiful and magical...and it deserves to be that way forever.....I Love our world and dont want it to get worse...

  • @lopezj392 the upmost respect for you brother,ill feel the smae way too...xxxxx the spirits are good,your best friend and make people feel loved and wanted...xxxgod bless all send my love to all world humantiyxxx

  • @lopezj392 you are right my friend,we love to guide us nothing can divide us.....god bless all love you all x x x

  • @lopezj392 super!!!

  • @lopezj392

    Peace is the answer and love conquers all but once greed takes over ugliness of human nature presents itself... I also get sad listening to the beauty of this song while thinking about the ugly state of our world.

  • @lopezj392 It reminds me of timmy's house, ha smd

  • @lopezj392 It reminds me of liam

  • @lankeylarry101

    It reminds me of the summer days, the breeze softly tickling the tip of my penis

    Wouldn't you agree?

  • @lopezj392 I appreciate your sentiment. there are few like you. I love birds and i look after them. I do whatever little or big i can. whatever is humanly possible for me. why dont you also do something. we are all capable of much more than we are aware of and ever use in our lifetime. good luck!!

  • @lopezj392 Oh and by the way, I am a 15 Year old Girl ^v^ just to let you know c:

  • @lopezj392 I love this song too and I remember listening to it when I was growing up and now i stumbled upon it again and am so happy I did....Yes it does have a sadness to it, or a longing in other words...a deep longing for the good to reach all over the world...

  • great sound!

  • what language is that?

  • @mExloKo13 Baegu also known as Baeggu. It is the language spoken by the natives of Northern Malaita, an island that is part of the Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands are part of the region of Melanesia and located in the south Pacific, somewhat near Australia and South East Asia.

  • Simply Fantastic

  • this is a very beautiful song to listen to

  • Great song!

  • very nice an moving

  • does some one know any music titles like this?

    accicted to this song

  • @bikkelbig enigma- return to innocence ;)

  • sweet innocent music

  • evergreen 4 ever

  • The vocals are originally from the island of Malaita, Solomon Islands... Melenesian pride...

  • @lazo120 Thanks for the info

  • @lazo120 Melenesian pride does that include ALL the HOME INVASIONS these backward people do in Australia, name a Soloman Islander scientist, brilliant doctor, engineer, designer, inventor. They ARE VIOLENT DANGEROUS people who breed and contribute NOTHING to the world.. Just name ONE Solomon Islander scientist? Even the Maoris call Solomon Islanders "coconuts"! Everday in Sydney you read about violent crimes committed by people of Pacific Islander appearance!

  • @rag5206

    violence is sign of change - and pacific islanders has changed since WWII (when they still had Stone Age) immensely.....but a leap from a year -10 000 BC to 2000 AD was, is and will be for many years, perhaps generations their biggest challenge ;-) this's not an excuse...they should stay at home & try to develop it there ;-)

  • @budyssiner Very good comment by you, unfortunately the Pacific Islands r very over populated & Australia is being used as a "relief valve" until they get their population growth under control (won't happen). Former Foreign Minister Hayden said we have to accept 1 million lslanders. U don't become a clever country by importing dumb cultures who don't value education. Sick of seeing stories in newspapers about violent crimes by Islanders, cheers

  • @rag5206 this is truth and it won't bring something good....they should stay home and resolve their issues alone instead :-/ any transplantation of this peoples into AU won't help - simply - it can't as it doesn't resolve the reason of their overpopulation :-(

  • @rag5206 racist

  • @10Jagah I think you mean realist, lets debate the issue these people would NEVER pass a migration entry criteria for Japan, Singapore, England. They sneak into Australia via New Zealand. Why should immigrants from Europe, America have to prove they can contribute to Australia? Yet these violent backward people are accepted here. Read the Daily papers how many assualts are by people discribed as Pacific Islander appearance? Grow up and open your eyes!!!

  • Maybe A Masterpiece

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  • So many hippies.....

  • @QuinnyyMini cool man.

  • @QuinnyyMini yes. Too many. The music is still nice. They're not mutually exclusive.

  • original clip please

  • relaxing and soothing..takes u away from it all...LOVELY

  • Peaceful & Soulful = Timeless

  • Pancakes!!!

  • I love this song as it is so nature inspired and the feel of the outdoors really takes over and my music is inspired by nature.

  • gosto muito de musica new age Deep Forest , Celtic, Vangelis. Enya, Catherine,

    Era, são musicas excelentes Joel Osasco S/Paulo

  • i dont understand nothing  but i LOVE THIS SONG

  • Can somebody tell me what language is this and what are the people singing. I'm going to do a very import exam in the end of the year, which has this music as an theme , and I would be very thankful if someone could say that.

  • @ViniciusGuitarGuy: see below - it is a language / local dialect spoken on the Solomon Islands. The lyrics refer to a young orphan being comforted by his older brother moarning the loss of their parents

  • @Pitee59 Thanks man.

  • @ViniciusGuitarGuy: look at the coment from Rotzgoere11 - she even provided the English translation :-)

    Cheers mate and good luck for your exam

  • Sa zecob Ziza dela dalou'a Boralea'e Borale mi komi Oula Etawuae'o ela'o Coralia wu'aila Tomu e Pandera Ilei zel 'pere no Mai mo ICAS Alatawuané imani'u Barletas barkia'a e'e Pro'e lai e'le uno la'u Pantou Tomu e Pandera Ilei zel 'pere no Mai mo Sa zecob Ziza dela dalou'a Boralea'e Borale mi komi Oula Alatawuané ICAS iwua'oula Tomu e Pandera Ilei zel 'pere no Mai mo
  • Deep Forest, very special in his style!

    I like it!

  • This song is not sung and was not taken from African, this song is sung in Malaitan language, thats a province in the Solomon Islands...........why r people claiming thuis song to be from Africa....

    I was surprised to c some comments stating that this song is originally from Africa............lol

  • @10Jagah Hahahahaha! I'm an African myself, and I was going to ask the same question.

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  • who the fak gave 12 thumbs down to this track????

  • @tsimentor Probably the people that find the whole concept of stealing a lullaby from the Soloman Islands and selling it as an African ridiculous! :)

  • @claireransome13

    hahahahaahhhahahahahahaaha

  • ''It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. '''

    M.Fuller

  • Is there an english version of this or something? Or remix?

  • makes me wonder why there is so much hate in this world why cant we all just love one another?

  • One day the problems will END. We can live in peace sorrounded my nature and soothed souls. No more war, no more anything just peace between everyone, no racism and the world will be a better place! LONG LIVE US WITH THE HELP OF GOD!

  • the music speaks to me in this song and I feel different

  • somehow I feel great like warm hearted from this song.

  • id like to think that if one song had to be chosen that represents earth, somthing like this would be it

  • Thanks for the nice up

  • Oh... so lovely... reminds me of things I never lived in this life but are in my DNA

  • belle musique c'est super quand tu part aux maroc janvion