Air (French band)

Air is a music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of 1.3 Other works
Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel.[4]
Air’s debut EP, Premiers Symptômes, was followed by the Air have often collaborated with American film director
critically acclaimed album Moon Safari, the re-release of Sofia Coppola. They composed the music to her debut
Premiers Symptômes, The Virgin Suicides score, and sub- film The Virgin Suicides in 2000. Air drummer and for-
sequently albums 10 000 Hz Legend, Everybody Hertz, mer Redd Kross member Brian Reitzell put together the
Talkie Walkie, Pocket Symphony, Love 2 and Le voyage soundtrack to 2003’s Lost in Translation, including one
dans la lune. original contribution by Air titled “Alone In Kyoto”. The
soundtrack for Coppola’s October 2006 film Marie An-
toinette featured a track by Air (“Il Secondo Giorno”).
Air wrote and played the music of the album 5:55 by
1 History Anglo-French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg,
which was released in August 2006.
1.1 Formation Air have recorded a DJ mix album, Late Night Tales: Air,
for Azuli Records' Late Night Tales series. The release
Nicolas Godin studied architecture at the École Nationale was initially scheduled for October 2005, but was delayed
Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, and Jean-Benoît several times. It finally was released, complete with a new
Dunckel studied mathematics before forming a band in sleeve design, on 11 September 2006.
1995. Before founding Air, Dunckel and Godin played On September 18, 2006, Darkel, a solo album by Jean-
together in the band Orange,[4] with others such as Alex Benoît Dunckel, was released.
Gopher, Xavier Jamaux and Jean de Reydellet. The for-
mer two have subsequently contributed to remixes of City Reading (2003) started as an idea for a collabora-
tracks recorded by Air. tion with contemporary Italian writer Alessandro Bar-
icco, known for his unusual characterizations and lyri-
Initially Nicolas Godin was alone. He recorded a demo cal, poetic style. Baricco contacted Air in summer 2002
with members of Funkadelic as his backing band before with the idea to marry narration of texts from his book
releasing his first entirely solo effort 'Modular Mix', which City with live original musical accompaniment. The per-
featured production by Étienne de Crécy.[5][6][7] formance premiered live in November 2002 at Rome's
Teatro Valle, and was deemed such a success that both
parties resolved to make a full studio recording that re-
1.2 Musical style sulted in the album City Reading: Tre Storie Western.

Air’s sound is often referred to as electronica; they were

influenced by psychedelic and progressive rock pioneers 2 Discography
Pink Floyd.[8][9]
Air use many of their studio instruments (like Moog syn- Main article: Air discography
thesizers, the Korg MS-20, Wurlitzer and Vocoder) live
on stage, where their ability to improvise is more clearly
highlighted. The band performs the well-known tracks
from the albums live as extended or altered versions. Air 2.1 Studio albums
often works together, both in the studio and live on stage,
with artists like Beth Hirsch (Moon Safari),[10] Françoise • Moon Safari (1998)
Hardy (“Jeanne”), Jean-Jacques Perrey (“Cosmic Bird”),
Gordon Tracks (“Playground Love” and “Easy Going • The Virgin Suicides (2000)
Woman” - Gordon Tracks is a pseudonym of the French • 10 000 Hz Legend (2001)
singer Thomas Mars from Phoenix), Beck (10 000 Hz
Legend),[11] on the 2004 tour with Dave Palmer and on • Talkie Walkie (2004)
the 2007 tour with drummer Earl Harvin, Vincent Tau-
relle and Steve Jones. • Pocket Symphony (2007)

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2 5 EXTERNAL LINKS

• Love 2 (2009) 5 External links

• Le voyage dans la lune (2012)
• Official website
• Music for Museum (2014) • Air discography at Discogs
• Air at the Internet Movie Database
2.2 Compilations and remix albums
• Premiers Symptômes (1997)

• Everybody Hertz (2002)

• City Reading (Tre Storie Western) (2003)

• Late Night Tales (2006)

• Twentyears (2016)

3 Awards
The group Air won the award of Best Music Video at the
2011 Byron Bay International Film Festival for the video
to “So Light Is Her Footfall”.

4 References
[1] “Bent: The Everlasting Blink”. PopMatters. Retrieved
2015-07-04.

[2] Aaron, Charles. “Air, 'Moon Safari' - 100 Best Albums of

the Nineties”. Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2015-07-04.

[3] Bush, John. “Air”. AllMusic.com. Retrieved March 8,

2014.

[4] Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography

(5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. p. 12. ISBN 1-
84195-017-3.

[5] Lesieur, Jennifer: “AIR de A à Z”. Étudiant, L', 2002

[6] Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography

(5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 12. ISBN 1-
84195-017-3

[7] James,Martin, 2003, “French Connections: from dis-

cotheque to discovery”, Sanctuary Press, London. ISBN
1-86074-449-4

[8] Matthew Perpetua (October 12, 2009). “Air Interview”.

Pitchfork Media. Retrieved December 2, 2011.

[9] Sam Pryor (November 1, 2009). “AIR: Studio Symme-

try”. Electronic Musician. Archived from the original on
February 24, 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2015.

[10] “Beth Hirsch”. Hohumrecords.com. Retrieved 2015-07-

04.

[11] “Air: 10,000 Hz Legend | Album Reviews | Pitchfork”.

M.pitchfork.com. 2001-05-28. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
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