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地区: France 法国

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Air是来自法兰西的国际著名演出乐团，1998年发行《Moon Safari（月光狩猎）》首张正式专辑，在全球拿下八十万张的销量，被纽约时报等诸多媒体评为“年度最佳专辑冠军”。 AIR三个字母代表的是爱情、想象、梦想。如果你看过索菲亚·科波拉的电影，就一定听过Air的音乐。

在法国人眼中，Air是一支“具有美国风格的迷幻电子乐队”，被许多人称作“随身携带的脑神经按摩器”，是“大小派对的最安全选择”……美国人则把他们当作法国（异国）风情艺术电子，曾有人称“简直很难相信竟然有一个法国乐队能在美国的摇滚界走好”。他们也是史上唯一在美国十二个城市巡演的法国乐队，另外在欧洲及日本巡演。

Air乐团出道于1995年，两人都是在凡尔赛长大，在大学中结识。与同时代的艺术家不同，他们创作了一种全新的音乐，其中包含微妙的电子合成流行乐成分，大量运用键盘，同时具有梦幻和电影感，并且重新诠释了六七十年代的音乐。AIR致力于创立一个独特的声音，它未来又复古，不能一下子就简单说清楚，而这是真正的经典，不受任何时代经历的影响！

1998年他们签约到VIRGIN旗下，正式发表第一张专辑《Moon Safari（月球漫步）》，奠定了他们在世界舞台上的地位，碟内两首单曲《Sexy Boy》《Kelly Wacth the Stars》也迅速成为热门歌曲。这张使他们大红大紫的唱片，很巧妙地把电子潮流与当年的新浪潮音乐以及法国流行音乐结合在一起，怀旧的气息始终萦绕其中。他们为电子乐注入了法国人特有的浪漫气质，使你在如空气一般流动的音乐中尽情徜徉与遐想。

在中国和全世界，Air乐团都拥有令人印象深刻的广大歌迷基础，同时他们也影响着一些中国最好的音乐制作人及现场表演音乐家。Air乐团还与很多其他门类的艺术家进行过合作。《The Virgin Suicides死亡日记·电影原声带》是Air的首次电影经验，电影导演索非亚·科波拉2000年的《处女之死》和2002年的《迷失东京》的配乐，都是由Air乐团完成。

Nicolas具有知识分子气质，稍微外向。Dunckel则语速较快，喜欢低头，头发半遮，气质忧郁。组成Air的这两兄弟Nicolas和Dunckel，风格是鲜明的一正一邪，一唱一合，一个男真声，一个女假声……十年来，他们给国外歌迷的感觉充满神秘，很多歌迷认为，他们的法式浪漫是被清新的英式摇滚与时髦的合成器流行新浪潮彻底淘洗过的。（摘自《音像世界》2008年12月号）

by John Bush

More apt to cite stately rock paragons Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson as their inspirations than Derrick May or Aphex Twin, the French duo Air gained inclusion into the late-90s electronica surge due chiefly to the labels their recordings appeared on, not the actual music they produced. Their sound, a variant of the classic disco sound coaxed into a relaxing Prozac vision of the late 70s, looked back to a variety of phenomena from the period — synthesizer maestros Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Vangelis, new wave music of the nonspiky variety, and obscure Italian film soundtracks. Despite gaining quick entrance into the dance community (through releases for Source and Mo Wax), Airs 1998 debut album, Moon Safari, charted a light — well, airy — course along soundscapes composed with melody lines by Moog and Rhodes, not Roland and Yamaha. The presence of several female vocalists, an equipment list whose number of pieces stretched into the dozens, and a baroque tuba solo on one track — all of this conspired to make Air more of a happening in the living room than the dancefloor.

Though Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel both grew up in Versailles, the two didnt meet until they began studying at the same college. Dunckel, who had studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, played in an alternative band named Orange. One of Dunckels bandmates, Alex Gopher, introduced Godin into the lineup. While Gopher himself departed (later to record for the Solid label), Dunckel and Godin continued on, becoming Air by 1995. During 1996-1997, the duo released singles on Britains Mo Wax (Modular) and the domestic Source label (Casanova 70, Le Soleil Est Prés de Moi). Though Air often evinced the same 60s Continental charm as Dimitri From Paris — due no doubt to the influence of Serge Gainsbourg — the duo had little in common musically with other acts (Daft Punk) in the wave of French electronica lapping at the shores of Britain and America during 1997. That same year, Air remixed Depeche Mode and Neneh Cherry and joined French musique concrète popster Jean-Jacques Perrey for a track on the Source compilation Sourcelab, Vol. 3.

Signed to Virgin, Air released their debut album, Moon Safari, in early 1998. The singles Sexy Boy and Kelly Watch the Stars became moderate hits in Britain and earned airplay on MTV. Later that year, Godin and Dunckel mounted an ambitious tour throughout Europe and America, though they had originally decided to forego live appearances. Their early singles were collected in 1999 under the title Premiers Symptomes; the duos soundtrack to the Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides followed in early 2000. Airs second studio effort, 10,000 Hz Legend, appeared in spring 2001 with a subsequent tour of the U.S., but critics and fans alike didnt appreciate the darker, more experimental direction. They bridged the gap between the pop of Moon Safari and the experimentalism of 10,000 Hz Legend with their 2004 release Talkie Walkie. Along with touring in support of that album, the pair remained busy making music in 2005 and 2006: they collaborated, along with Pulps Jarvis Cocker and the Divine Comedys Neil Hannon, on Charlotte Gainsbourgs album 5:55, and Dunckel released a solo album as Darkel. Cocker and Hannon also appeared on Airs fourth album, Pocket Symphony, which was released in early 2007.

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