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Air — Moon safari. Story behind the album. Track by track guide

Jean-Benoît Dunckel: Daft Punk were down the street from us in Paris and we could almost hear the music they were making when we opened the window during band sessions. It was the late 1990s, and Paris suddenly had this incredible electronic music scene: all these clubs were opening up. I didn’t get to go to all the parties, though, because I was generally at home with my wife taking care of Solal, our baby. We were poor. It was the tail end of Britpop, and people were wanting something else. We came along with this alien, psychedelic, loungecore music you’d listen to on a Sunday morning after you’d been out clubbing the night before. And one month after Moon Safari came out, we were huge.

Nic Godin: Playing guitars loud through amps is great fun when you’re 15 and full of hormones, but French people are better at being chefs or fashion designers. Rock music is not really in our culture. But electronic music is different. When we discovered it, suddenly we had an outlet.

L’Femme D‘Argent

Nic: It’s one big orgasmic movement—a very long exploration, but still going straight to an orgasm, and then to absolute peace.

JB: It’s to introduce people to the world of Air and our sound. To French chords, the chords of everyday life, not of pop music. Seven minutes to condition the people. Then they’re ready to accept the record.

Nic: It was a joke at the beginning. We were afraid the record company wouldn’t like it. But it’s important to have humour in a record. Sexy boy is hip and if you’re hip you see your life through the way others see you. And so you’re happy.

Someone lent me a 1960s Höfner bass, the model Paul McCartney played in the Beatles. Because I was a guitarist, I put it through my guitar amp, which gave this amazing sound: very cool and dry. One day I played a riff to JB and he said sexy boy out of the blue—and that was how we got the song. If we’d sung sexy girl, it would have been a disaster. Sexy Boy felt different. The song was about who we wanted to be; we weren’t handsome when we were younger; our friends always had more success with girls.

Ever since I was a child, I’d dreamed of making a classic album—and I actually did. The night we did Sexy Boy, I knew my life would change.

Beth: I went to Paris in the early ’90’s to be an au pair. At that point I had graduated university with a degree in theatre and was planning to act in Anglophone theatre ensembles. Within a few months of arriving, I became friends with a big group of young internationals, mostly photographers and architects. The group kept growing and growing and we partied all the time. A few of them had guitars and we would jam at parties, on the Seine, and anyone who wanted to could sing along.

One night a couple friends and I were singing from a Chris Isaak songbook and they said “Wow, you sing really well”. From then on, every time we went to a party, they’d ask me to sing and through these parties I started to meet music producers who invited me to sing on their projects. The next year at my birthday party, a friend named Marc Collin saw the guitar in my flat and said, “Do you write? Play me something!” I showed him a song called Miner’s Son and he suggested we record it at his studio. This became my first EP (also called Miner’s Son) and he signed it with Rough Trade/Paris. We started working with another producer named Étienne Wersinger who lived nearby in Montmartre. One day there was a guy sitting on the couch and Etienne introduced us. His name was Nicolas Godin.

Nicolas said “Etienne showed me your project—I really like it”. I asked him if he was in music and he told me that he and his partner Jean-Benoît were making an album as Air and that they would like me to get together with them and sing on it.

The underlying content of their music was eclectic and they liked working with real instruments. From what I listened to, it was afterwards that the more electronic elements were brought in. They gave me an early version of the music (based on track Les Professionnels from their first EP) but even in that raw state I could tell the song had something special. I immediately found a melody and shortly after wrote the lyrics for it. We were actually going to call it  I’ve been wondering. There’s a high part in the chorus where I’d sing that, but in French, the r’s are hard to pronounce so they decided to change the section and the chorus became a vocal wave instead. The record company re-named the song All I need based on the first line in the verse. I remember trying some background vocals and they said, “You’ve got to sing those background vocals everywhere!” We worked off each other.

It was the mid-90s and it was a great time to be in Paris and I was having, on the whole, a wonderful time, discovering music and other artists, and how amazing the whole scene was. That’s what I tried to express in the lyrics of the song.

Nic: Beth made us sound like a space-age Carpenters .

Kelly watch the stars

JB: Unlike American or British bands, we weren’t always thinking “verse-chorus”. And singing in English made us sound even more French, because of our thick accents.

Nic: It’s a silly song. But you need silly songs to make good records. It’s about Jacqueline Smith, Kelly from Charlie’s Angels. Me and JB are really in love with her. It was our first sexual shock when we were kids. I remember talking about who we thought was the most beautiful woman in the world. For me, it was Kelly, so we wrote Kelly watch the stars about her.

Nic: After we did Sexy boy, Kelly watch the stars and  Remember we said “Wow, we’he done too many pop songs.” So we sat down and wrote Talisman in four hours.

The big thing is that we do music and we don’t do only songs. That’s the main difference with any other band. When an idea arrives it can become a song or I can play an (instrumental) piece. We don’t know, and we don’t necessarily try to make a chorus. We have big freedom in the form, so that’s why we are much more entranced by soundtracks or classical music than any other band, because when we suddenly have inspiration, we don’t try to make the song—if it comes to be a song then it’s cool and we like that because we like songs, but if it becomes something else (that’s okay too). I look at other bands when some guy finds a idea on a keyboard or guitar he tries to make a song out of it. They don’t think, they don’t look at what they have.

Nic: We were supposed to compose a song with Jean-Jaques Perrey for  Source Lab 3. Half an hour before we went to the railway station to pick up him we thought “What if we don’t have any ideas? Shit!” So we sat down and wrote Remember in 10 minutes. When we picked up Jean-Jaques Perrey we played it and he said, “That’s good, but let’s do it as a song” So we wrote the lyrics. A very fast collaboration.

You make it easy

Beth: The label encouraged us to work together more, so the guys showed me that piece of music and in a similar way to  All I need I found the melody and lyrics quite quickly and the rest of the production flowed after that. The inspiration for You make it easy came from a little summer romance I had at the time. It was a nice time and a good story. Since it was happening to me, it was easy to write and it all came together in a seamless way.

The making of  Moon Safari was very slow. The guys knew that they had to make the record their way. I remember them saying there was a lot of pressure on them to get it done as quickly as possible, but they resisted and did it on their terms. The way I was used to working was much faster and I was highly impressed by their focus and level of detail. Also their understanding of song structure. They really know how to build very solid music.

Ce Matin La

Nic: It was a tribute to soundtracks we like. It is very traditional. It’s a lot of people’s favourite track. Even the band. When we told them we weren’t doint it live they wanted to quit!

JB: We recorded the strings at Abbey Road with David Whitaker, an English arranger who’d worked with everybody. We were in this legendary studio where the Beatles had recorded, too shy to even speak to the orchestra. So David took us off to his home in the countryside and we ended up discussing Rachmaninoff. He helped us to overcome our shyness and make something massive and expressive.

Ce matin la —or This morning —you can hear in Virgin Suicides movie. 24-year Sofia Coppola, director, was listening to  Moon safari while working on the film’s scenario. And after that she invited Air to compose a score. Here is little story about it .

New star in the sky

Nic: It was supposed to be the disco song on the album, but then it... Changed. We believe that when a child is born, a new star appears in the sky. There are enough stars in the sky to have one for every human being.

JB: The track New star in the sky (Chanson pour Solal) came about because I’d studied astrophysics and was into stars, planets and Einstein’s theory of relativity. I was singing about space all the time and reading Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. The characters in the book go on a safari into the past to see dinosaurs. I just loved the word safari.

Le Voyage de Penelope

Nic: It was supposed to be a B-side. We were doing a mix for Depeche Mode, and it was really hard. So we thought we’d take four hour off, work on something else. It was 10 pm. By two o’clock it was finished.

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Air review – a wild, jawdropping, widescreen extravaganza

Coliseum, London The strangely ageless French chill-out duo deliver Moon Safari in an audiovisual spectacular that goes far beyond nostalgia

T he languid opening notes of La Femme d’Argent are a musical madeleine that elicits a collective gasp from the Coliseum. God only knows how many late nights and fuzzy dawns Air’s album Moon Safari soundtracked when it came out in 1998. It seemed to be everywhere, like an essential utility, and triggered a deluge of chill-out music, none of which could outdo the Parisian duo’s lambent beauty and chic retro-futurism.

While playing all of Moon Safari, followed by a greatest hits set, in the gilded home of English National Opera is an enticing enough notion, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel deliver far more than high-end nostalgia. They have sometimes struggled to transport their exquisitely arranged music to the stage, but tonight’s presentation is light years ahead, propelled by technology that was inconceivable in 1998. Air have reimagined intimately familiar songs in an audiovisual extravaganza as spectacular as any arena show. It’s a trip.

The strangely ageless duo – Godin on guitars, Dunckel on synths –and their drummer perform in an oblong box lined with video screens and lights. Dressed in immaculate white, they could be the house band for the interstellar salon in 2001: A Space Odyssey – a 60s dream of the world to come. The walls glow like the chamber of a volcano, buzz with imagery from 80s video arcades, and shoot through a tunnel of stars. For Venus, the box transforms into the deck of a spaceship, racing past brightly coloured planets like a scene from Guardians of the Galaxy. Two evocative instrumentals written for Sofia Coppola movies enhance the sense that this is as much a cinematic experience as a musical one.

The music is widescreen, too – everything larger and wilder than on record, with vintage synthesisers taking on the work of the studio arrangements and the drummer injecting prog-rock steroids. Songs steeped in Serge Gainsbourg, Kraftwerk and electronic pioneers such as Jean-Jacques Perrey acquire the freaky velocity of Hawkwind and the imperial grandeur of Pink Floyd. Air initially announced a short run of dates in major European cities but they’ve kept adding more, and no wonder. This jawdropping show could run and run.

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Air’s instant breakthrough of a debut is effortlessly cool—a haze of vaporized vocals, warm synths, and stainless steel hi-fi sensibility. Without being as kitschy or (wink, wink) ironic as its spacey “Sexy Boy” single might lead you to believe, the album is an immaculate collection of suave Moog moves and future-disco downtempo. A defining achievement in the chill-out subgenre, it rightfully dominated compilation racks at the turn of the century on the strength of songs like “Kelly Watch the Stars” and “You Make It Easy.”

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Air play Moon Safari review: Spectacular, unique, and still revolutionary

W hen Air released their 1998 debut Moon Safari , there was nothing else like it. The French duo – Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin – had conjured an electronic masterpiece full of refined retro-futuristic pop and gentle psychedelia that became essential listening across all sorts of disparate groups, from comedown ravers to the middle-class dinner party set via Radio 1 and film soundtracks. It was utterly of the moment, inspiring countless imitators. That it was all conducted with a chic Parisian insouciance only added to the allure.

But if the record was a unique achievement, it is similarly hard to think of anything quite like their spectacular recreation of the album on the UK debut of a belated 25th anniversary tour. Last night in the opulent setting of London’s magnificent Coliseum, Air brought to life their grand statement in thrilling, emotive, transformative fashion.

Ever the aesthetes, the staging was immaculate. In keeping with the album’s themes – nostalgia for the pair’s 70s childhood and the promised new space age that never materialised – Air, dressed all in white, performed from inside a white rectangular box, a sleek and sophisticated base from which tasteful lighting and otherworldly visuals could emerge. It often brought to mind Kraftwerk recreating 2001: A Space Odyssey .

The immersive setting enhanced the sense of wide-eyed wonder in the music. Air were joined by an impressively agile and powerful drummer and Moon Safari ’s inventiveness came to the fore. Opener “La femme d’argent” began as a lounge track, unfurling leisurely above Godin’s typically precise yet loose bassline before Dunckel added layers of noise. By the end, it had become a swirling psychedelic onslaught.

The hits – a sumptuous “Sexy Boy” and giddy “Kelly Watch the Stars” – sounded invigorated. It was a reminder of how ahead of the curve Air were: at the time, vocoded vocals were still rare in popular music; Moon Safari pre-dated Cher’s “Believe” by nine months. That said, Godin used a vocoder to sing the luxurious ballad “You Make it Easy” (its original singer, Beth Hirsch, was absent), and it was the only moment that didn’t enhance the feeling of the record (the cut-up sampling of Hirsch’s voice for “All I Need” worked far better).

If past Air concerts were a bit too nonchalant for their own good, then last night a sense of occasion brought out, if not quite showmanship, a certain personality that hasn’t always been evident. Dunckel, stationed between two sets of keyboards, often faced the crowd and played both at the same time in an impressively offhand manner. For his part Godin strayed around the stage as he swapped guitars, all smiles and lost-in-the-moment grooves. When an excited audience member shouted “we love you!” during the twinkling intro to “New Star in the Sky”, it could have killed the moment stone dead. Standing at his keyboards, Godin smiled and raised a fist in salute. After album closer “Le voyage de Pénélope” – a wavey, frantic finale – the pair could barely contain their joy at the standing ovation.

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After the success of Moon Safari ,Air were so desperate not simply to remake it that, in recording the divisive 2001 follow-up 10,000Hz Legend , they locked all their previous equipment in a cupboard and threw away the key. A wisely chosen second set, then, plucked the highlights from the rest of their catalogue (notably nothing later than 2004). The melodious alt-pop songs of 2004’s Talkie Walkie – the wistful “Cherry Blossom Girl” and guitar-led “Surfing on a Rocket” – are some of their very best; from 10,000Hz Legend , the Krautrock-goes-prog “Don’t be Light” was exhilarating, as was the closing Kraftwerkian manifesto “Electronic Performers”, which ended with an onslaught of dark noise.

But it’s the Moon Safari set that will live long in the memory: an extraordinary performance of an extraordinary album.

Air perform Moon Safari at the Royal Albert Hall on 30-31 May. Then touring

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Air’s ‘Moon Safari’ 25th Anniversary Edition Is out Now

AIR have released the 25th anniversary edition of their seminal debut album Moon Safari in a Deluxe audio-video package available via Warner Music France. You can also stream the special edition everywhere now, with a selection of cherry-picked Moon Safari audio rarities.

The album re-issue (a Deluxe 2CD/Blu Ray Audio-Video) will include a Spatial Dolby Atmos audio version of the original album along with super rare or previously unreleased tracks as well as Mike Mill’s 1998 documentary film ‘Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing’ filmed during the band’s first ever worldwide tour and more…

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AIR’s boundary-pushing album has long been praised for its innovative sonics that have inspired countless musicians to think outside the box, so much so that their influence even transcended their own medium. Since Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel formed the band in 1995, the prolific duo has released six albums in addition to their acclaimed EP Premiers Symptômes, which was followed by the release of the aforementioned classic Moon Safari along with two soundtracks that all together sold millions of copies. AIR garnered an extensive list of worldwide accolades for their unique brand of downtempo electronic music that not only sculpted the sound for the next generation of electronic-influenced pop music but also was able to withstand the test of time in its own right.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, the release of Moon Safari catapulted Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel to the uppermost rung of electronic music’s ladder and left an indelible imprint on pop culture at the end of the 20th Century.

Despite being young 20-somethings at the time and having only released one EP to date, Godin and Dunckel’s stars aligned and together they were blessed with the creative skill to make the perfect electronic pop songs. These two students of astrophysics and architecture set about creating their own universe with the confidence and pedigree of seasoned pros.

Today, the record’s legacy is canonical, but at the time of release, its multi-million success was far from assured. Says Dunckel: “We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool. Then suddenly, we met the world.” In no time at all, AIR’s downtempo influence was easy to detect all around.

Through Moon Safari , AIR’s music infiltrated and transfixed some of the great visionaries of the late 20th century – David Bowie , Madonna , Beck – as well as influencing preeminent aesthetes of the incoming age – including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kevin Parker and Sofia Coppola, whose creative relationship with AIR became as synergetic as that of Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch (another fan).

Moon Safari birthed hit singles in Kelly Watch The Stars, All I Need and Sexy Boy, sold more than 3 million copies around the world, and pushed AIR into headline status at major festivals. 25 years on, it’s not hard to reason why Moon Safari has stood the test of time. It’s a mood you want to live inside of forever. It’s a revelation. It’s conversation pit music for a better future.

Dunckel sums up his own album as “a deep, universal spell, full of love and mystery.” “To me,” Godin concludes, “ Moon Safari is perfect.” And who can argue…

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Air to celebrate 25th anniversary of ‘Moon Safari’ with full album tour including extra Royal Albert Hall date

25 January 2024, 11:45

By Tom Eames

French electronic duo AIR will perform their debut album ‘Moon Safari’ in its entirety on a special tour across Europe and the UK next year.

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The tour, which marks the 25th anniversary of the album’s release, will be a one-night-only experience in each city, featuring a live band and visuals.

Moon Safari was released in 1998 and became a global success, spawning hit singles such as ‘Sexy Boy’, ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’ and ‘All I Need’.

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The album is widely regarded as a masterpiece of '90s electronic music, blending pop, lounge, ambient and synth-pop influences.

A special 25th anniversary Deluxe Edition of the album will be released on March 8 in various formats.

It will be available as Deluxe 2CD/Blu Ray Audio-Video, and will will include a Spatial Dolby Atmos audio version of the original album along with super rare or previously unreleased tracks, as well as Mike Mill’s 1998 documentary film Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing.

The tour kicks off on February 24, 2024 at Anitgel at Victoria Hall in Geneva, and will visit Milan, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and more cities, taking in a now-sold out at the London Coliseum on March 24, with an extra date added at the Royal Albert Hall on May 30.

Tickets for new show will go on sale next Friday, February 2, at 10am.

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Air, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, said they were excited to revisit their debut album and share it with their fans.

“We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool. Then suddenly, we met the world,” Dunckel said. “We are very proud of this album and we want to celebrate it with our audience.”

Godin added: “To me, Moon Safari is perfect. It’s a deep, universal spell, full of love and mystery. We can’t wait to play it live for you.”

In addition to the tour, Air have also released a Dolby Atmos Mix of Moon Safari , exclusively on Apple Music. The mix will offer a new immersive listening experience of the album, with enhanced spatial sound and clarity.

Earlier this year, Air also released a 25th anniversary vinyl edition of Moon Safari , featuring remastered audio and a booklet with rare photos and liner notes.

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Air live in London: a refreshingly future-facing celebration of ‘Moon Safari’

March 24, London Coliseum: Rather than wallow in nostalgia, the French chill-tronica duo take their debut album on a breathtaking trip to outer space

It’s Spring 2024, and the air is thick with nostalgia. This year, there seem to be just as many anniversary tours as there are jaunts plugging new records – with the likes of everyone from Liam Gallagher and Green Day to Interpol , Bloc Party and Death Cab/Postal Service celebrating their past and transporting you back to an era of your choosing. Hell, in these dumpster fire days, who wouldn’t wanna take a trip back in time? Tonight, we find ourselves in the fittingly opulent London Coliseum for French chill-tronica icons Air , marking 25 years of their immaculate debut ‘Moon Safari’.

The achingly stylish Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel – joined by live drummer Louis Delorme – step into a wide letterbox-shaped stage to lead us through the album in full. There was already a certain timeless spirit to the effortlessly cool lounge ambience of ‘La femme d’argent’, the European seduction of ‘Sexy Boy’, and the subtle euphoric future-pop of ‘Kelly Watch the Stars’. But here, tonight, with their fellow album tracks fleshed out with some jazzy flair and the visual feast of the Kubrick-esque staging, this feels less like a snapshot of the ‘90s and more a performance holding you very much in the now.

The pure musicianship would have been enough (it beggars belief that a trio can create such a galaxy of sound), but the whole experience is one that lifts you from your seat. Never a lull, the show is one of delicious Versailles luxury for the eyes and ears. It’s heartening to see so many concert-goers regularly turning to their pals in glee, mouthing what we can only assume is the French for “holy shit!”

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The blissed-out ‘New Star In The Sky’ and ‘Le voyage de Pénélope’ wash over the sold-out crowd, hungry for more. When the trio return to the stage for the luscious horizon of ‘Radian’ and the sci-fi romance of ‘Venus’, it seems we still have miles to go. The rest of the set leans heavily on electronica staple albums ‘Talkie Walkie’ and ‘10 000 Hz Legend’, proving how wonderfully Air imagined a future at the turn of the century. Highlights come with the runaway space-rock rush of ‘Don’t Be Light’ and, of course, the gentle twinkling perfection of ‘Alone In Kyoto’ – yes, that one off of Lost In Translation – before closing with a genre-clash nod to Kraftwerk on the cinematic ‘Electronic Performers’.

It takes a certain dedication to play an album from top to bottom, but Air have created an immersive universe for ‘Moon Safari’. Rather than yearning for the past, the band suspend us in time with thick grooves and sheer class – a constant joy from start to finish. See this show at all costs.

Air played:

‘Moon Safari’ set: ‘La femme d’argent’ ‘Sexy Boy’ ‘All I Need’ ‘Kelly Watch the Stars’ ‘Talisman’ ‘Remember’ ‘You Make It Easy’ ‘Ce matin‐là’ ‘New Star in the Sky (Chanson pour Solal)’ ‘Le voyage de Pénélope’

Set 2: ‘Radian’ ‘Venus’ ‘Cherry Blossom Girl’ ‘Run’ ‘Highschool Lover’ ‘Surfing on a Rocket’ ‘Don’t Be Light’

Encore: ‘Alone in Kyoto’ ‘Electronic Performers’

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On March 2, AIR will play their groundbreaking debut album "Moon Safari" in full at the Theater des Westens.

Air, the legendary french duo led by nicolas godin and jean-benoît dunckel, are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their cult album "moon safari" and will be playing the entire album live in full for the first time., "moon safari" catapulted air into new heights overnight in 1998: david bowie, madonna and even beck were instant fans; charlotte gainsbourg, kevin parker and sofia coppola were so enormously influenced by their sound that a long, creative friendship developed between sofia coppola and air. air became headliners at major festivals and sold millions of copies of their celebrated singles such as "kelly watch the stars", "all i need" and "sexy boy"., "moon safari" has passed the 'test of time' and is now one of the most important albums in contemporary pop music., event starts at: 7:30 p.m. doors open at: 6:30 p.m..

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