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Moon Safari [Import]

~ Air
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (27 Jan 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Astralwerks
  • ASIN: B000003S5H
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 354,358 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Femme d'Argent
2. Sexy Boy
3. All I Need - Air, Beth Hirsch
4. Kelly Watch the Stars
5. Talisman
6. Remember
7. You Make It Easy - Air, Beth Hirsch
8. Ce Matin La
9. New Star in the Sky (Chanson Pour Solal)
10. Voyage de Penelope

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Moon Safari, the first album proper by this pair of middle-class Frenchmen, easily survives unscathed from its billing as that most deadly of sub-genres: dinner party music. True, Moon Safari, with its blatant bliss-provoking easy listening chimes, sits well beside Everything But the Girl's Walking Wounded or Portishead's Dummy, but the album is steeped in too much musical verve and gallic humour to become as dull as Chardonnay. "Sexy Boy", the first single, is a rock-out slab of electronica about a toy monkey, for instance--hardly the thing to discuss in polite society. This album's highs come with their two marriages with the contributing vocals of American Beth Hirsch. "All I Need" and "You Make It Easy" are shockingly successful, with Hirsch bringing gravitas and sincerity, flagging the album with strong emotional pointers in the midst of their musical adventures. If you didn't know, you'd think her words were sampled from a lost jazz classic--that's how good this record sounds. --Charlie Porter

Album Description

To celebrate the band's illustrious first 10 years, in which they have enjoyed many career-defining moments and countless critical accolades, Virgin is proud to present this expanded, deluxe version of 'Moon Safari', a beautiful artifact which no true Air fan will want to miss out on.

This strictly limited edition release is a 3-disc package wrapped up in a collector case bound book (DVD-size).

Disc 1 features the seminal debut album while the 10-track second Disc includes rarities, remixes (Beck, Moog Cookbook) and key songs from radio sessions recorded during 1998 on both sides of the Atlantic. Disc 3 - a DVD - is the hour-long Mike Mills documentary 'Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing' filmed in New York, London and Paris during Air's first tour.


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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing else matters, 28 Mar 2002
This review is from: Moon Safari (Audio CD)
What can I say? If I sound over the top, it's because this is how the album makes me feel. I bought Moon Safari and Premiers Symptomes (also by Air) from Amazon based purely on other reviews. What I found out when I put the CD's into my player is that Air are one of those bands who can change your mood, your day, your ideas of music in the space of one album. I say one album, but I recommend you listen to Premiers Symptomes then Moon safari back to back. By doing this you get to see how Air's ideas changed, and you will also notice how they remain consistently brilliant. I like EVERY track on Moon Safari as much as the last, but my favourite track is Ce Matin La. Listen to it on headphones. It paints a visual picture in your mind using sound. Moon Safari is simply an album that, when you hear it you think, well, nothing else matters. That wasn't too over the top was it?
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just buy it!, 10 Nov 2005
This review is from: Moon Safari (Audio CD)
I bought this album speculatively because it had been recommended to me by the automated Amazon system. On reading the other reviews it sounded like a great album and, when it arrived, I was not disappointed.

La Femme d'Argent& relaxes you into your seat/bed/cell in 7 minutes of musical perfection which, although it can play unobtrusively in the background, demands that every chord and note is listened to, and absorbed. Tracks like this, and the beautiful Ce Matin La are contrasted by the poppy, high-bass Sexy Boy.

The album is consistent in the relaxed, but by no means easy-listening nature of the tracks, but also wonderfully diverse in its styles. The introduction of a female voice on All I Need and You Make it Easytakes the emphasis off the instrumentalists, and allows them to play with a beautiful set of vocal harmonies.

If you want dinner party music, do not buy this album - it's just too good to be played in the background.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious music, 18 May 2000
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This review is from: Moon Safari (Audio CD)
The rain starts to fall, a soothing bass riff floats in, an organ theme emerges, and La Voyage de Penelope begins. What an opener, and what a perfect way to relax into this hot bubble bath of an album!

Sexy Boy is still their most famous song and although a top tune, is not particularly indicative of their more laid-back style. Songs such as this may sound repetitive at first, but after a few listens, they become hypnotic, with delicate and intricate changes on each verse and chorus.

Beth Hirsh's breathy, Jane Birkin-like vocals add sex to the combination, and songs like Kelly Watch the Stars make ostensibly robotic, synthesised music sound as soulful and rootsy as any blues band.

Elsewhere there's the trumpet motif of Ce Matin-La and the pre-Cher Vocoder antics of Remember, the sadness of New Star in the Sky and the bleakness of Talisman.

Every song is beautifully crafted and performed, spanning the supposed gulf between primal dance music and pan-generational songsmithery.

Definitely the first 21st Century pop album.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Be crazy not to...
..get this album. Rare as hen's teeth to find an album that's the gift that keeps on giving. Had it for years and still love it. Yep, it's a keeper and really that good.
Published 3 days ago by Garry Morrison

4.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat uneven, with great highlights
One of 1998's biggest hypes, French duo Air stormed the charts and numerous best of-lists of both critics and avid music fans. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Guy Peters

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
One of my all time favourite albums. This will be a classic of the French chill-out genre for decades to come. Buy it!
Published 9 months ago by J. Reeves

4.0 out of 5 stars SexyBoySexyCock
Detached, hypnotic, and retro (much like Pink Floyd's song "Breathe" from the Dark Side Of The Moon--and yet not Pink Floyd) is how I would describe the sound of this debut CD... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Brendan O. Clarke

5.0 out of 5 stars I wore out my 1st Air Moon Safari CD..........
............and am purchasing replacement because I couldn't live without it. Play it any time of day. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Oft

3.0 out of 5 stars A few tracks are ok
I bought this because it had so many good reviews, also i like this genre of music however i don't understand what all the fuss is about. Read more
Published 13 months ago by K. Wilcox

4.0 out of 5 stars Air - Moon Safari
A great album. a worthy buy. This album has one of my top 10 fav tracks of all time "All I Need". All I Need has great sounds and is very simple format but carries accross a great... Read more
Published on 13 May 2007 by Keith D. Biglin

2.0 out of 5 stars OK, but it was done in the 1970s, kids.
Yes, "Moon Safari" is a pleasant enough album that I bought on the strength of the reviews on this site. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2006 by Barry Lees

5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a CD
Air moon safari is more than just a CD it's therapy for the mind body & soul. I have many chill out Cd's but I think that it's far to say that moon safari is by far the best. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2006 by john o'keeffe

5.0 out of 5 stars Music in zero gravity
Genuinely classic albums of the last twenty years are, in my opinion, hideously rare. 'Moon Safari' qualifies partly by having that important quality of unique feel, a world of... Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2006 by D. J. H. Thorn

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