Air

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Air is a French duo from Versailles, formed in 1995 by Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Godin studied architecture, Dunckel mathematics. Their debut album Moon Safari (1998) brought a soft, electronic pop sound with Moog synthesizers, vocoder, Wurlitzer and Rhodes piano. For Sofia Coppola's first feature film, The Virgin Suicides (1999), Air wrote a complete score. It appeared in 2000 as an album in its own right. Brian Reitzell played drums, and in Playground Love Thomas Mars of Phoenix sings under the name Gordon Tracks. The album was nominated for a Brit Award for best soundtrack. Later Air contributed to Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) and made an album for Le voyage dans la lune (2012).

Listening

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  Playground Love (feat. Gordon Tracks) · Air, 1999
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  Alone In Kyoto · Air, 2003
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  Seven Stars · Air, 2012
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  La Femme d'Argent · Air, 1998
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Discography

Studio albums

• 1998Moon Safari
• 2000The Virgin Suicides (soundtrack)
• 200110 000 Hz Legend
• 2003City Reading (Tre Storie Western)
• 2004Talkie Walkie
• 2006Pocket Symphony
• 2009Love 2
• 2012Le Voyage dans la Lune (soundtrack)
• 2014Music for Museum (soundtrack)

Other work

• 2003Lost in Translation (bijdrage)

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• 10 000 Hz Legend
• Talkie Walkie
• Pocket Symphony
• American indie film
• Pop song, rock and compilation score
• Downtempo, lounge and chill-out