Air's Classic Album : Moon Safari! Synths and Sentiment for your Sunday Morning...
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 08:12AM This is just the roll of film I needed with my coffee this morning...
Seated here among postcards from my sister and brother, both in Paris, I began to feel pangs of sweet pining as every good little sister should! A family girl, me. I consider myself lucky to come from a large family of supportive and somewhat eccentric siblings, all of whom share an insatiable thirst for music; either to create it or absorb it.
My eldest brother in particular turned me on to some of the greatest music ever made from the moment my ears and vocal cords could function.....from David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, ABBA and Kate Bush and later on Siouxsie, The Sugarcubes, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Goldfrapp...(ah, the list is endless!) and this gem that wiped many a musical slate clean for me: Air's groundbreaking album, Moon Safari.
(photo via dvdborn)
It was also this album, (along with Stereolab's Mars Audiac Quintet) released 10 years ago this year, that truly catapulted my fascination with analog(ue) gear into the not too distant stratosphere as I embarked upon the obsessive "What's that sound?" and "How the FUCK do you play that?" journey...it never ends, does it?
Have a peek at this lovely website dedicated to Moon Safari's 10 year anniversary!
Moon Safari, we love you.
Check out these lovely commemorative clips by Mike Mills entitled "Time Machine". A whole decade with Moon Safari! Wow. That was when my hair was dyed a shade called "Black Grape".....
Courtesy of AirOfficial on YouTube. Find the rest of the series here :
Check out this this clip from 1999's "Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing".Recognize some of the band in it? Of course you do! It's The Moog Cookbook's Brian Kehew and Roger Joseph Manning Jr.!
Synths and sentiment indeed. Do you have an album that you can't live without? Tell us!
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