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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Astronomic Club | |||
| 2. Seven Stars | |||
| 3. Retour sur terre | |||
| 4. Parade | |||
| 5. Moon Fever | |||
| 6. Sonic Armada | |||
| 7. Who Am I Know? | |||
| 8. Décollage | |||
| 9. Cosmic Trip | |||
| 10. Homme lune | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. minute restored in colour film `Le Voyage Dans La Lune'(A Trip To The Moon) by Georges Méliès | |||
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Asked by the Fondation Groupama Gan and Fondation Technicolor to compose a new soundtrack for the film – an enormous honour, in the French film world and beyond – Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel set about creating a modern score to bring the film to the attention of a new generation. As luck would have it, the results were ready in time for 2011’s Sundance Film Festival, and the restored film, complete with its all-new music, continues to play to audiences worldwide.
Removed of its cinematic context, Le Voyage… is every bit an Air album. Since their debut LP, 1998’s Moon Safari, allowed the pair to pioneer an entirely new genre of lifestyle-accompanying melodic ethereality bound by a flexing of terrestrial funk, inspiring countless imitators in the process, the duo has always been on safe ground when their subject matter is off-Earth.
By no means strangers to the soundtrack – hear their wonderful Virgin Suicides work, and the elegant ennui of Lost in Translation – Air have conjured up yet another mini-masterpiece that fits the film and evokes the period it hails from perfectly. With guest vocalists Victoria Legrand and Au Revoir Simone on hand to play chanteuse roles on the sublime Who Am I Now? and Seven Stars respectively – tracks which easily exceed the usual vocalised fare on a soundtrack – and vignettes such as Retour sur Terre and Homme Lune, the album as a whole works well without the visuals. Opener Astronomic Club lopes menacingly, like spooky monks building an analogue spacecraft in the keen expectation of top-hatted adventurers. Cosmic Trip sprinkles itself kaleidoscopically into a starry blanket of layered keyboards, while closer Lava features a nice bit of what sounds like prog-banjo planking.
La Voyage Dans La Lune is the ‘most Air’ thing this duo may ever craft, a perfect set with which to remind audiences of their continuing excellence. If you’d lost touch with Godin and Dunckel after their last few albums, this might just be the return ticket needed to step back into their (other)world.
--Ian Wade
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'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' occurred in 1987 when I saw South African
artist William Kentridge's installation at the Hamburger Bahnhof
Gallery in Berlin. His was a haunting and strangely beautiful response
to Melies' magical work; part personal commentary, part homage.
Air's musical response to the original is an imaginative and entertaining
programmatic interpretation which, in its rather old-fashioned, post-prog
way captures the fantastical spirit and charm of Melies' quirky invention.
The album comprises eleven tracks which could have sprung fully-formed
from the nineteen seventies. From the sombre opening track 'Astronomic Club'
with its wobbly male choral vocal statements, reverberating percussion and
abrasive electric guitar; through the jazzy twists and turns of 'Sonic Armada';
the delightful blips and tinkles of 'Cosmic Trip' and the quaintly epic
resolution of final track 'Lava', we are swept back to sound-worlds created by
the likes of Patrick Moraz (particularly his 1976 album 'Story Of I'), Chic Corea's
Return To Forever (1976's 'Romantic Warrior came especially to mind) and even,
to some degree, John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra. Truly nostalgic stuff!
For fans of that era there is much to enjoy. For new listeners the journey
will be both engaging and entertaining. Either way it's a fine recording.
Recommended.
The album expands on that music for the film almost double the playing time. Favourite tunes on the album tend to be the longer more complete pieces such as 'Astronomic club', 'Seven Stars' and 'Sonic Armada'
While reminiscent of earlier Air albums such as 'Moon safari' and 'Premiers Symptomes' , this really does stand up well as a brand new album. I would add that for me this is an early contender for album of the year.
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