While the Earth Sleeps

"While the Earth Sleeps" is a song written by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez of Deep Forest and Peter Gabriel.^[1] The song was performed by Deep Forest with Peter Gabriel and appeared on the soundtrack for the film Strange Days (1995) and is played over the film's end credits. It was released as a CD single. The song features Bulgarian folk singer Katya Petrova.

Samples

The song incorporates credited samples from "Shashvi, Kakabi", performed by Tsinandali Choir, from an old Macedonian song called "Da li znaeš, mila majko" ("Do you know, dear mother?"), author of the song's Risto Pulevski of Bitola village Nižepole, Repubilc of Macedonia, performed by Macedonian singers Violeta Tomovska and Kiril Mančevski, recorded by Radio-televizija Beograd, Former Yugoslavia (view the original record), and from "Övgön Chuuvuu" from the album Mogolie, musique vocale et instrumentale.^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Notes	Length
1.	"While the Earth Sleeps" (album version)	Eric Mouquet, Michel Sanchez, Peter Gabriel		3:50
2.	"Rid of Me"	PJ Harvey	performed by Juliette Lewis, produced by Daniel Rey and Randy Gerston	4:13
3.	"While the Earth Sleeps" (long version)	Mouquet, Sanchez, Gabriel	CD maxi-single only	6:22

Track 2 is featured in the film Strange Days, but not on the soundtrack.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Deep Forest With Peter Gabriel - While The Earth Sleeps (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 2010-12-19.

External links

Deep Forest site
"While the Earth Sleeps" at Discogs (list of releases)

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