this is wonderful!!! i'm so glad to hear that our boys
are doing it in another new way... they never cease to
astound me with never doing the same thing twice...
i'm salivating... oh, and beck is the man.

morgan
--- Sebastien Cevey <seb@...> wrote:
> No it's not out yet, you can sit down.
>
> I was watching a (great) show on TV (a french
> channel, France 2, it
> ended a few minutes ago) which was centered around
> David Bowie and its
> (awesome) new album, Reality.
>
> But David Bowie had asked for Air to be present,
> because he thinks
> they are the very essence of french music nowadays
> (to which I can
> only agree). So, they did not stay long on screen,
> but they were
> interviewed for a couple of minutes about their new
> album, and they
> played a track of it live !!
>
> So to get the facts out, the album is coming out
> next January (so
> long!), but it's already finished. They recorded it
> in their home
> studio on Paris, _just JB and Nicolas_, with no
> other
> participant. Nigel Goldrich, famous for his
> producing Radiohead and
> Beck among others, and the latest Air installment
> (City Reading), will
> mix it. He was the one who convinced them to sing
> themselves and
> without vocoders or other vocal devices.
>
> They decided to make an album on their own after the
> "pharaonic"
> nature of 10'000 Hz Legend, which was a big "orgia
> of sounds" where
> they managed to play with all their friends and
> other artists (ok you
> know the story, Jason Falkner, Brian Reitzell, Roger
> Manning JR, Beck,
> Justin Medal-Johnson, etc). They wanted this one to
> be less
> exhuberant, more personnal I guess, so both of them
> worked alone with
> their guitar, synths and rhythmboxes (basically,
> just as they did for
> all the album except 10'000 Hz Legend).
>
> That's what we more or less knew from previous
> interviews, including
> one in the Rock & Folk magazine where they were
> interviewed about City
> Reading.
>
> There is no title for the album yet, and they won't
> talk about it
> anyway. It will be 10 songs long, with an extra song
> for the Japanese
> version.
>
> Right, I think I've made a short yet complete
> summary of what could
> have interested you in the interview.
>
>
> Now the song.
>
> It's called "Another Day", and as said above way
> played by Nicolas
> (acoustic guitar) and JB (synth) alone. They used a
> computer for the
> tracks they did not play. JB was the only one
> singing, without a
> vocoder. Simple lyrics (as usual), yet effective (as
> usual).
>
> I think that song really showed the minimal (as in
> "pure", not as in
> "simplistic") direction they might have taken for
> this new album. It's
> no longer gorgeous massive sounds as in 10'000 Hz
> Legend, it's not
> really that '70 prog-rock 'tron-ed sound from The
> Virgin Suicides
> either, and neither is it as mellow, liquid and
> vintage as Moon Safari
> and Premiers Symptomes.
>
> I think the best way to describe it is to take City
> Reading minimal
> constructions and to replace that dark, heavy
> atmosphere with Moon
> Safari's lightness and sensuality (although the
> latter was actually
> present in all their albums). The melody is simple,
> and so is the
> overall, yet the songs builds those smart tensions
> that make Air such
> a great group. The song was very melancholy.
>
> David Bowie seemed to like it, so did I.
>
>
> I can't wait 'till January to listen to the full
> album, yet I think
> you are priviledged not to have heard it because
> you'll have the full
> surprise when you'll eventually buy it ;-)
>
>
> I hope you found that interesting, and if you
> didn't, you should have
> deleted this email before reaching its end anyway
> ;-P
>
>
> Good night folks (2 AM here) !
>
> --
> Sebastien Cevey <seb@...>
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> distributed. "
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