Deep Forest - Deep Forest Sweet Lullaby official video

What this video is

Released as a single in 1992 and re-released with remixes in 1993–1994, 'Sweet Lullaby' emerged at the precise cultural moment when ethno-electronic music — pioneered by Enigma and then Deep Forest — was crossing over from niche new-age/world-music audiences into mainstream pop and alternative radio. The song reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, number 7 in Australia, number 3 in Norway, and entered the US…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of the ethno-electronica genre, 'Sweet Lullaby' established the template for world-sample-driven ambient-pop crossover hits that would influence Moby, Zero 7, and Air in the late 1990s and 2000s. The video itself is a canonical example of high-concept, performance-free music…

The director

Tarsem Singh Dhandwar (born 26 May 1961, Jalandhar, Punjab) is an Indian director of films, music videos, and commercials. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His career-defining early music video work includes…