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Air — Moon safari. Story behind the album. Track by track guide

Air — Moon safari. Story behind the album. Track by track guide

Jean-Benoît Dunckel: Daft Punk were down the street from us in Paris and we could almost hear the music they were making when we opened the window during band sessions. It was the late 1990s, and Paris suddenly had this incredible electronic music scene: all these clubs were opening up. I didn’t get to go to all the parties, though, because I was generally at home with my wife taking care of Solal, our baby. We were poor. It was the tail end of Britpop, and people were wanting something else. We came along with this alien, psychedelic, loungecore music you’d listen to on a Sunday morning after you’d been out clubbing the night before. And one month after Moon Safari came out, we were huge.

Nic Godin: Playing guitars loud through amps is great fun when you’re 15 and full of hormones, but French people are better at being chefs or fashion designers. Rock music is not really in our culture. But electronic music is different. When we discovered it, suddenly we had an outlet.

L’Femme D‘Argent

Nic: It’s one big orgasmic movement—a very long exploration, but still going straight to an orgasm, and then to absolute peace.

JB: It’s to introduce people to the world of Air and our sound. To French chords, the chords of everyday life, not of pop music. Seven minutes to condition the people. Then they’re ready to accept the record.

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Nic: It was a joke at the beginning. We were afraid the record company wouldn’t like it. But it’s important to have humour in a record. Sexy boy is hip and if you’re hip you see your life through the way others see you. And so you’re happy.

Someone lent me a 1960s Höfner bass, the model Paul McCartney played in the Beatles. Because I was a guitarist, I put it through my guitar amp, which gave this amazing sound: very cool and dry. One day I played a riff to JB and he said sexy boy out of the blue—and that was how we got the song. If we’d sung sexy girl, it would have been a disaster. Sexy Boy felt different. The song was about who we wanted to be; we weren’t handsome when we were younger; our friends always had more success with girls.

Ever since I was a child, I’d dreamed of making a classic album—and I actually did. The night we did Sexy Boy, I knew my life would change.

Beth: I went to Paris in the early ’90’s to be an au pair. At that point I had graduated university with a degree in theatre and was planning to act in Anglophone theatre ensembles. Within a few months of arriving, I became friends with a big group of young internationals, mostly photographers and architects. The group kept growing and growing and we partied all the time. A few of them had guitars and we would jam at parties, on the Seine, and anyone who wanted to could sing along.

One night a couple friends and I were singing from a Chris Isaak songbook and they said “Wow, you sing really well”. From then on, every time we went to a party, they’d ask me to sing and through these parties I started to meet music producers who invited me to sing on their projects. The next year at my birthday party, a friend named Marc Collin saw the guitar in my flat and said, “Do you write? Play me something!” I showed him a song called Miner’s Son and he suggested we record it at his studio. This became my first EP (also called Miner’s Son) and he signed it with Rough Trade/Paris. We started working with another producer named Étienne Wersinger who lived nearby in Montmartre. One day there was a guy sitting on the couch and Etienne introduced us. His name was Nicolas Godin.

Nicolas said “Etienne showed me your project—I really like it”. I asked him if he was in music and he told me that he and his partner Jean-Benoît were making an album as Air and that they would like me to get together with them and sing on it.

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The underlying content of their music was eclectic and they liked working with real instruments. From what I listened to, it was afterwards that the more electronic elements were brought in. They gave me an early version of the music (based on track Les Professionnels from their first EP) but even in that raw state I could tell the song had something special. I immediately found a melody and shortly after wrote the lyrics for it. We were actually going to call it  I’ve been wondering. There’s a high part in the chorus where I’d sing that, but in French, the r’s are hard to pronounce so they decided to change the section and the chorus became a vocal wave instead. The record company re-named the song All I need based on the first line in the verse. I remember trying some background vocals and they said, “You’ve got to sing those background vocals everywhere!” We worked off each other.

It was the mid-90s and it was a great time to be in Paris and I was having, on the whole, a wonderful time, discovering music and other artists, and how amazing the whole scene was. That’s what I tried to express in the lyrics of the song.

Nic: Beth made us sound like a space-age Carpenters .

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Kelly watch the stars

JB: Unlike American or British bands, we weren’t always thinking “verse-chorus”. And singing in English made us sound even more French, because of our thick accents.

Nic: It’s a silly song. But you need silly songs to make good records. It’s about Jacqueline Smith, Kelly from Charlie’s Angels. Me and JB are really in love with her. It was our first sexual shock when we were kids. I remember talking about who we thought was the most beautiful woman in the world. For me, it was Kelly, so we wrote Kelly watch the stars about her.

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Nic: After we did Sexy boy, Kelly watch the stars and  Remember we said “Wow, we’he done too many pop songs.” So we sat down and wrote Talisman in four hours.

The big thing is that we do music and we don’t do only songs. That’s the main difference with any other band. When an idea arrives it can become a song or I can play an (instrumental) piece. We don’t know, and we don’t necessarily try to make a chorus. We have big freedom in the form, so that’s why we are much more entranced by soundtracks or classical music than any other band, because when we suddenly have inspiration, we don’t try to make the song—if it comes to be a song then it’s cool and we like that because we like songs, but if it becomes something else (that’s okay too). I look at other bands when some guy finds a idea on a keyboard or guitar he tries to make a song out of it. They don’t think, they don’t look at what they have.

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Nic: We were supposed to compose a song with Jean-Jaques Perrey for  Source Lab 3. Half an hour before we went to the railway station to pick up him we thought “What if we don’t have any ideas? Shit!” So we sat down and wrote Remember in 10 minutes. When we picked up Jean-Jaques Perrey we played it and he said, “That’s good, but let’s do it as a song” So we wrote the lyrics. A very fast collaboration.

You make it easy

Beth: The label encouraged us to work together more, so the guys showed me that piece of music and in a similar way to  All I need I found the melody and lyrics quite quickly and the rest of the production flowed after that. The inspiration for You make it easy came from a little summer romance I had at the time. It was a nice time and a good story. Since it was happening to me, it was easy to write and it all came together in a seamless way.

The making of  Moon Safari was very slow. The guys knew that they had to make the record their way. I remember them saying there was a lot of pressure on them to get it done as quickly as possible, but they resisted and did it on their terms. The way I was used to working was much faster and I was highly impressed by their focus and level of detail. Also their understanding of song structure. They really know how to build very solid music.

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Ce Matin La

Nic: It was a tribute to soundtracks we like. It is very traditional. It’s a lot of people’s favourite track. Even the band. When we told them we weren’t doint it live they wanted to quit!

JB: We recorded the strings at Abbey Road with David Whitaker, an English arranger who’d worked with everybody. We were in this legendary studio where the Beatles had recorded, too shy to even speak to the orchestra. So David took us off to his home in the countryside and we ended up discussing Rachmaninoff. He helped us to overcome our shyness and make something massive and expressive.

Ce matin la —or This morning —you can hear in Virgin Suicides movie. 24-year Sofia Coppola, director, was listening to  Moon safari while working on the film’s scenario. And after that she invited Air to compose a score. Here is little story about it .

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New star in the sky

Nic: It was supposed to be the disco song on the album, but then it... Changed. We believe that when a child is born, a new star appears in the sky. There are enough stars in the sky to have one for every human being.

JB: The track New star in the sky (Chanson pour Solal) came about because I’d studied astrophysics and was into stars, planets and Einstein’s theory of relativity. I was singing about space all the time and reading Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. The characters in the book go on a safari into the past to see dinosaurs. I just loved the word safari.

Le Voyage de Penelope

Nic: It was supposed to be a B-side. We were doing a mix for Depeche Mode, and it was really hard. So we thought we’d take four hour off, work on something else. It was 10 pm. By two o’clock it was finished.

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Air Announce North American Moon Safari Anniversary Tour Dates

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Last month, Air kicked off a 25th anniversary tour for their much-beloved 1998 album Moon Safari , which they’re playing in full at their shows. So far, Air had only announced live dates in Europe, but today they’re detailing a North American Moon Safari tour, which will kick off in September. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 8, though there’s also a pre-sale on March 7 — both start at 10AM local time. Check out all the dates and a trailer for the tour below.

09/25 Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre 09/27 Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall 09/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum 09/30 Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum 10/02 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic 10/04 Denver, CO @ Bellco Theater 10/06 Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre 10/08 Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre 10/10 Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre 10/12 Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall 10/13 Montreal, QC @ Place Bell 10/15 Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway 10/17 Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 10/18 Washington DC @ The Anthem* 10/21 New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 10/24 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 10/26 Miami Beach, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach 10/29 Dallas, TX @ Music Hall at Fair Park 10/30 Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheatre

On Friday, Air released a demo version of “New Star In The Sky,” from the anniversary edition of the album that’s out next week digitally. Here’s that:

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Air are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their seminal debut album, ‘Moon Safari', with a deluxe edition release. 

Out 8th March via Parlophone/Warner Music, the expaned release will feature two CDs and a Blu-Ray Audio-Video package. 

The reissue will include a Spatial Dolby Atmos audio version of the original album, along with rare or previously unreleased tracks. Additionally, it will include Mike Mills' 1998 documentary Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing , filmed during the band's first worldwide tour, among other bonus content.

Air will kick off their  ‘Moon Safari’ tour across Europe next month. The tour, which will be the first time that the French duo have performed the record in full live, will start on 16th February in Rouen, playing in various cities across Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, and The Netherlands, before concluding in London’s Coliseum Theatre on 24th March.

Alongside the announcement of the 25th-anniversary deluxe edition, the duo has revealed additional tour dates, which extend into the summer months. These dates include performances on 30th May at London's Royal Albert Hall, Sónar Festival in Barcelona on 14th June, Days Off Festival in Paris on 24th June, Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin on 21st July, and Medastadt Open Air in Vienna on 23rd July. 

Reflecting on the release, Jean-Benoît Dunckel said: “We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool. Then suddenly, we met the world.” He went on to describe ‘Moon Safari’ as “a deep, universal spell, full of love and mystery," while fellow co-member, Nicolas Godin, declared it "perfect."

Last year, Air also released a 25th-anniversary vinyl edition of their critically acclaimed debut.

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Air have been playing their 1998 classic Moon Safari on tour in Europe, and the French duo has now announced the North American leg of the anniversary tour. The shows in Canada and the United States take place in the fall. See all of Air’s upcoming tour dates below.

It’s been over a decade since Air last released an album of new material. After putting out Le voyage dans la lune in 2012—a soundtrack for the restored version of Georges Méliès’ iconic silent film—the duo did share the compilation LP Twentyyears four years later, and it included the two previously unreleased songs “Roger Song” and “Adis Abebah.”

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03-07 Paris, France - L’Olympia 03-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 03-24 London, England - London Coliseum 05-30 London, England - Royal Albert Hall 05-31 London, England - Royal Albert Hall 06-02 Zurich, Switzerland - Unique Moments Festival 06-14 Barcelona, Spain - Sónar Barcelona 06-21 Rome, Italy - Cavea 06-22 Ferrara, Italy - Summer Vibez 06-24 Paris, France - Days Off Festival at the Philharmonie 06-26 Halifax, England - The Piece Hall 06-27 Southampton, England - The Guildhall Square 06-30 Dublin, Ireland - Trinity College 07-05 Gdynia, Poland - Open’er Festival 07-09 Cascais, Portugal - Cool Jazz Festival 07-16 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Neïmenster 07-18 Gent, Belgium - Gent Jazz Festival 07-19 Gent, Belgium - Gent Jazz Festival 07-21 Berlin, Germany - Spandau Citadel 07-23 Vienna, Austria - Metastadt Open Air 09-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre 09-27 Seattle, WA - Benaroya Hall 09-29 Los Angeles, CA - The Orpheum Theatre 09-30 Los Angeles, CA - The Orpheum Theatre 10-02 San Francisco, CA - The Masonic 10-04 Denver, CO - Bellco Theatre 10-06 Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre 10-08 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre 10-10 Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre 10-12 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall 10-13 Montreal, Quebec - Place Bell 10-15 Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway 10-17 Philadelphia, PA - The Met 10-18 Washington, D.C. - The Anthem 10-21 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre 10-24 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle 10-26 Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore Miami Beach 10-29 Dallas, TX - Music Hall at Fair Park 10-30 Austin, TX - Moody Amphitheatre

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French electronic duo AIR will bring audiences to space this fall during a North American tour honoring the 25-year anniversary of their beloved 1998 debut, Moon Safari .

The pair, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, will play the album in its entirety during the 19-date tour, which starts Sept. 25 in Vancouver and ends Oct. 30 in Austin, Texas. See the complete schedule below.

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Presale tickets go on sale March 7 at 10 a.m. local time, with general tickets on sale 10 a.m. local time on March 8. The tour will hit largely 2,000- to 5,000-capacity venues and follows AIR’s current sold-out European tour behind the anniversary. The tour announcement follows last Friday’s release of a demo version of Moon Safari ‘s “New Stars in the Sky.”

Released in January 1998, the album marked a breakout moment for the electronica genre and earned wide critical acclaim.

While making it, Godin says that “my obsession was to do something timeless, so I focused very hard not to put things in the music production that would date the album. And during the process, many times we felt we were visited by something magic, we felt blessed during some takes; and also when I was listening to the radio, I couldn’t figure how people were making hit singles. It was not in my skills so if you can’t make a hit, the best other option is to make a classic.”

“Before we decided to do this tour, we went to a rehearsal room for three days to see if it was technically possible to perform the entire album,” Godin continues, “and as soon as we started to play the first notes of ‘Kelly Watch the Stars’ or ‘La Femme d’Argent,’ we had a thrill.”

The tour will not feature Moon Safari vocalist Beth Hirsch, who helped forge the album’s dreamy, sexy atmosphere on “All I Need” and “You Make It Easy.” But Dunckel says the pair has “made some arrangements to deliver the soul of these tracks” through their use of a vocoder. “I think that the new arrangements are working on stage,” he continues. “We feel the singer singing without her singing.”

Reflecting on the album’s legacy, Godin says the soothing nature of the album is another reason it’s endured. “We are extremely blessed to have recorded this music, and to be able to share it with the audience so long after its release is a gift of life for us,” he says. “In these troubled times, it’s a nice time capsule from the last century when we were more innocent and optimistic.”

“I think this album is a little bit medicinal,” Dunckel adds. “It heals people’s wounds. Like the wounds I had at the time we made it. That’s what melancholic music does to you isn’t it? The melancholia into the music swallows the listener’s melancholia because the musician and the listener are talking to each other as in a therapy conversation or in a dream.”

Of the original tour behind the album, Dunckel recalls realizing the album “was really working when we toured in the U.S., and in Spain. People were really enjoying the shows and they were so happy to see us for real. I felt it in the audience voices.”

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Air Announces A Run Of 2024 Tour Dates To Celebrate 25 Years Of Their Beloved Album ‘Moon Safari’

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If you were hoping to see Air (no relation to the Jordan movie ) live in action, your chance has come. This fall, the French duo will travel across the US and Canada to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their critically acclaimed album, Moon Safari . For those with the money to fork over to experience the blast from 1998, the shows are set to a momentous occasion, marking their first time ever dedicating a string of shows to the work.

The presale for Air’s 2024 North American dates will begin on March 7 at 10 a.m. local time. The general ticket sale will follow at the same time on March 8. Find more information here . If you aren’t lucky enough to secure admission to a show, on March 15, you can stay at home an enjoy their Moon Safari 25th Anniversary Edition Rarities album due out on March 15.

Either way, all the information for the show dates, poster, tracklist, and more can be found below.

Moon Safari 25th Anniversary Edition Rarities Album Cover Artwork

Moon Safari 25th Anniversary Edition Rarities cover

Moon Safari 25th Anniversary Edition Rarities Tracklist

1. “Dirty Hiroshima (Demo)” 2. “New Star In The Sky (Demo)” 3. “Ce Matin Là (Demo)” 4. “Maggot Brain (Live)” 5. “J’ai Dormi Sous L’eau” (BBC Live Session) 6. “Sexy Boy” (BBC Live Session) 7. “Kelly Watch The Stars “(BBC Live Session) 8. “Kelly Watch The Stars” (Extended) 9. “Remember” (David Whitaker version)

Air 2024 North American Tour Dates: Air Play Moon Safari

09/25 — Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre 09/27 — Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall 09/29 — Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum 09/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum 10/02 — San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic 10/04 — Denver, CO @ Bellco Theater 10/06 — Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre 10/08 — Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre 10/10 — Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre 10/12 — Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall 10/13 — Montreal, QC @ Place Bell 10/15 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway 10/17 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 10/18 — Washington DC @ The Anthem 10/21 — New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 10/24 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 10/26 — Miami Beach, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach 10/29 — Dallas, TX @ Music Hall at Fair Park 10/30 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheatre

Air 2024 North American Tour poster

Air 2024 North American Tour Moon Safari poster

Moon Safari 25th Anniversary Edition Rarities is out 3/15 via Warner Records. Find more information here .

Air is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Air to celebrate 25th anniversary of ‘Moon Safari’ with full album tour including extra Royal Albert Hall date

25 January 2024, 11:45

Air will tour Moon Safari

By Tom Eames

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French electronic duo AIR will perform their debut album ‘Moon Safari’ in its entirety on a special tour across Europe and the UK next year.

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The tour, which marks the 25th anniversary of the album’s release, will be a one-night-only experience in each city, featuring a live band and visuals.

Moon Safari was released in 1998 and became a global success, spawning hit singles such as ‘Sexy Boy’, ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’ and ‘All I Need’.

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The album is widely regarded as a masterpiece of '90s electronic music, blending pop, lounge, ambient and synth-pop influences.

A special 25th anniversary Deluxe Edition of the album will be released on March 8 in various formats.

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It will be available as Deluxe 2CD/Blu Ray Audio-Video, and will will include a Spatial Dolby Atmos audio version of the original album along with super rare or previously unreleased tracks, as well as Mike Mill’s 1998 documentary film Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing.

The tour kicks off on February 24, 2024 at Anitgel at Victoria Hall in Geneva, and will visit Milan, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and more cities, taking in a now-sold out at the London Coliseum on March 24, with an extra date added at the Royal Albert Hall on May 30.

Tickets for new show will go on sale next Friday, February 2, at 10am.

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Air, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, said they were excited to revisit their debut album and share it with their fans.

“We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool. Then suddenly, we met the world,” Dunckel said. “We are very proud of this album and we want to celebrate it with our audience.”

Godin added: “To me, Moon Safari is perfect. It’s a deep, universal spell, full of love and mystery. We can’t wait to play it live for you.”

In addition to the tour, Air have also released a Dolby Atmos Mix of Moon Safari , exclusively on Apple Music. The mix will offer a new immersive listening experience of the album, with enhanced spatial sound and clarity.

Earlier this year, Air also released a 25th anniversary vinyl edition of Moon Safari , featuring remastered audio and a booklet with rare photos and liner notes.

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AIR add huge London show and more European dates to ‘Moon Safari’ anniversary tour

The band have also announced a deluxe reissue of the classic record to celebrate its 25th anniversary

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AIR have announced new UK and European tour dates for their ‘Moon Safari’ anniversary tour, and a new deluxe reissue of the album.

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The classic album celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, and recently announced ‘One Night Only’ tour dates where they will play the album in its entirety for the first time.

Now, they have confirmed that a deluxe reissue of the album will arrive on March 8 and feature a Spatial Dolby Atmos audio version of the original album and a series of rare and unreleased tracks.

Also included in the reissue will be the 1998 tour documentary Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing by Mike Mill.

New dates have also been added to the ‘Moon Safari’ tour, including a second London date, which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall, and gigs in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

See the full updated list of tour dates below. Tickets for the Royal Albert Hall are on sale on Friday, February 2 at 10am GMT, while Barcelona, Germany and Austria tickets are on sale now. Tickets for their Paris gig go on sale in March.

You can  buy tickets for the London show here , and all  remaining dates here .

Air’s ‘Moon Safari’ 2024 tour dates are:

FEBRUARY 24 – Anitgel @ Victoria Hall, Geneva 25 – Fabrique, Milan 27 – Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna 29 – De Roma, Antwerp

MARCH 02 – Theater Des Westen, Berlin 07 – L’Olympia, Paris 08 – Paradiso, Amsterdam 24 – London Coliseum, London

MAY 30 – London, Royal Albert Hall

JUNE  14 – Barcelona, Sonar Festival 24 – Paris, Days Off Festival 21 – Berlin, Zitadelle Spandau 23 – Vienna, Medastadt Open Air

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Last year, Air announced a 25th anniversary vinyl reissue of ‘Moon Safari’ . They also celebrated  20 years of its 2001 follow-up ’10 000Hz Legend’  with a reissue in 2021.

The duo’s last studio album, ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ , came out in 2012.

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