''Boheme'' is the second album of the French duo

Deep Forest Deep Forest is a French musical group originally consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance ...

, released in 35 countries. It mainly sampled

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gypsy songs (i.e. the

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, hence the name of the album) with

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

. Hit singles included "Marta's Song" (featuring

Márta Sebestyén Márta Sebestyén (; born 19 August 1957) is a Hungarian folk vocalist, composer and actress. Early life Sebestyén was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her mother is a composer, and was a music student of Zoltán Kodály. Her father was an economis ...

) and "Freedom Cry". The album became the duo's most successful one, selling over 4 million copies, receiving Diamond, Platinum and Gold awards in 15 countries and winning the

Grammy Award for Best World Music Album The Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album is an honor presented to recording artists for influential music from around the globe at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors i ...

. The song "Freedom Cry" caused controversy when it was revealed that the singer, Károly Rostás ("Huttyán"), never received any monetary compensation from the song, and neither did his family after he died in 1986. His singing, archived by Claude Flagel, was sampled by Deep Forest. Flagel allegedly paid Huttyán 1500 forints for the recording. The case was later documented in a movie entitled '' Huttyán'', released in 1996.Huttyán (NDA@SZTAKI)
/ref> The Gypsy relatives did succeed to some extent to get money from Deep Forest.Hungarian newspaper article
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Track listing

# "Anasthasia" – 1:48 # "Bohemian Ballet" – 5:15 # "Marta's Song" (feat.

) – 4:13 # "Gathering" – 4:39 # "Lament" – 3:09 # "Bulgarian Melody" (feat. Márta Sebestyén) – 3:09 # "Deep Folk Song" – 1:13 # "Freedom Cry" (feat. Károly Rostás) – 3:17 # "Twosome" (feat. Márta Sebestyén) – 4:06 # "Cafe Europa" – 4:17 # "Katharina" – 2:53 # "Boheme" – 4:37 # " While the Earth Sleeps" (European Edition Bonus Track, feat.

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) – 6:23

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