Live Nation presents Air Play Moon Safari
AIR will be playing their widely celebrated album in its entirety for the first time ever.
Two students of astrophysics and architecture walk into a bar on the moon. This sounds like the beginning of a joke — but in the waning light of the 20th century, it really happened, leaving a serious imprint on pop culture.
On January 16th, 1998, AIR released Moon Safari, an album which catapulted Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel to the uppermost rung of electronic music's ladder. Their sound - Fender Rhodes trills, loping basslines, and sensual-yet-playful vocal hooks, all woven into a texture as fine and luxe as chiffon — conjured the sensation of a space-age cocktail designed to be sipped at a leisurely pace. It's not challenging to see how this curious little record became a global sensation.
The duo's early surprise that their outer zonal fantasies might capture international hearts and minds has since melted into a sense of deep gratification. Unbeknownst to them, millions stood by their televisions, radios, and record players, waiting to receive this particular longwave transmission from somewhere in the cosmos.
Moreover, the satisfaction arises from executing such a precise studio vision with zero concessions. On an artistic level, AIR achieved exactly what they set out to do; their mission was a resoundingly successful one.
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