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Audio CD (14 April 2008)
Number of Discs: 3
Format: Limited Edition
Label: EMI
ASIN: B0013UN9DQ
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | Mini-Disc | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 57,343 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. La Femme D'argent
2. Sexy Boy
3. All I Need
4. Kelly Watch The Stars
5. Talisman
6. Remember
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Disc: 2
1. Remember
2. Kelly Watch The Stars
3. J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau
4. Sexy Boy
5. Kelly Watch The Stars
6. Trente Millions D'amis
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Disc: 3
1. Eating Sleeping Waiting And Playing
2. Sexy Boy
3. Kelly Watch The Stars
4. All I Need
5. Le Soleil Est Pr s De Moi
6. Storyboards And Drawings Mike Mill's Secrets
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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

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Their trans-Atlantic notoriety may have come amidst compilations of French house and electronic scenes, but Nicolas Godin and JB Dunckel are not just another pair of Gallic beat-miners. Like DJs and studio wizards, the duo known as Air does construct their records pastiche-style; but instead of unleashing dancefloor-friendly "tracks", they come up with mellow abstractions for retro-minded chill-out rooms, flaunting their analog instrumentation and love for make-out melodies every step of the way.
MOON SAFARI, Air's full-length debut, is like a fuzzy, blissful daydream in which a glowing ambiance pervades over a crossroads of '60s French pop, '70s Philly soul and '80s Eurodisco. Rarely does the tempo reach mid, and when it does ("Kelly Watch The Stars" and "Le Voyagede Penelope"), it's on the strength of funky synth-pop grooves. Overall, their sounds are rarely less than kaleidoscopic, enveloping the listener in happy, high-IQ muzak. If it sounds somewhat disposable, it's because all good pop should. It is the fact that one can't leave Air's aural confections behind that makes MOON SAFARI great.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing else matters, 28 Mar 2002

By	Jetson "prosser243" (Worcester) - See all my reviews

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Just buy it!, 10 Nov 2005

By	Matthew Thompson - See all my reviews

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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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 months 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 4 months 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 12 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 15 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 16 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 16 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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