Although the nationalities present are truly global, the actual sound of Deep Forest hasn't changed that much, centering mostly on lush new age music with just a bit more of an edge than is usual, plus several tracks with whispered or restrained vocals.

Their third album, Comparsa, contains the kind of bouncy, mindless fun that whisks one away from the task at hand to infinite and impossibly exotic distances.

This is not to say the music itself is mindless, so much as the entire experience is akin to watching a foreign film sans subtitles.

The album does contain raw emotions like joy, anger, hope and despair that, whether shrieked by pygmies or chanted by nomads, ring clear as a bell.

A lyric sheet in the liner notes would provide a welcome Rosetta stone for those interested in forging beyond the pure exotica of the listening experience, but one is occasionally tipped off by titles like "Radio Belize."