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1. La Femme D'argent

2. Sexy Boy

3. All I Need

4. Kelly Watch The Stars

5. Talisman

6. Remember

7. You Make It Easy

8. Ce Matin-L�

9. New Star In The Sky

10. Le Voyage De P�n�lope

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Moon Safari, the first album proper by this pair of middle-class Frenchmen, easily survives unscathed from its billing as that most deadly of sub-genres: dinner party music. True, Moon Safari, with its blatant bliss-provoking easy listening chimes, sits well beside Everything But the Girl's Walking Wounded or Portishead's Dummy, but the album is steeped in too much musical verve and gallic humour to become as dull as Chardonnay. "Sexy Boy", the first single, is a rock-out slab of electronica about a toy monkey, for instance--hardly the thing to discuss in polite society. This album's highs come with their two marriages with the contributing vocals of American Beth Hirsch. "All I Need" and "You Make It Easy" are shockingly successful, with Hirsch bringing gravitas and sincerity, flagging the album with strong emotional pointers in the midst of their musical adventures. If you didn't know, you'd think her words were sampled from a lost jazz classic--that's how good this record sounds. --Charlie Porter

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AIR Moon Safari (1998 UK 10-track CD album including Sexy Boy & Kelly Watch The Stars sealed picture sleeve)

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4.0 out of 5 stars SENSUOUS AND DRUNK, Oct 4 2003

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Vish Iyer "wish_1979" (BOMBAY, INDIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon Safari (Audio CD)

The 1990s was a decade, which saw a good deal of 'creative' ramifications of conventional dance-music. With weirder manifestations of disco-music, like 'electronica' and 'trip-hop', this popular and most liked genre of music (especially its newer forms) has found a place in the underground music scene. Not sticking to conventionalities, non-conformist underground pop/dance bands, the likes of MASSIVE ATTACK, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, PRODIGY, etc., have revealed or have given birth to this really evil doppelganger of popular dance-music, which has made this music bury its head in the ground with shame.

With dance-music gaining unconventional facets, AIR too, like its confreres, has touched up dance with its own unique style, adding a rather laid-back and drunk countenance to dance, which is radically uncharacteristic of this form of music. "MOON SAFARI" doesn't fit quite well under the rubric of any of the ramifications of contemporary dance music. It is laidback, it has a lot of retro psychedelic elements fused in the tipsy and drowsy atmosphere of its songs; the album is drastically different. It is interestingly groggy, painfully slow, and maddeningly addictive.

The album is like one of those bars, which you love to visit every night, get shamelessly drunk, and have the worst hangover the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that, and so on: It is as if you want to visit the bar again and again, just to enjoy the messed up state of your head during the hangover.

The album begins with the very sensual "La Femme D' Argent": the first seven-odd minutes of the album, which tickles you at just the right spots, and you are at your sensuous best; and this is just the beginning! Sober, yet embarrassingly drunk, chaste yet fraught with a feeling of concupiscence, the rest of "MOON SAFARI", gets even the most ardent teetotaler drunk. "Sexy Boy", "All I Need", "Kelly, Watch The Stars!", one after the other, the goodies come by, each complimenting the other, to make "MOON SAFARI", a very fine album.

"MOON SAFARI", in all its mysteriousness, is an album of sin, in its subtlest forms. It is quiet, deceptively easygoing, sensitive and sensuous: it is beautiful!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, July 1 2004

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Moon Safari is simply amazing! I bought this CD about one year ago, and it is still one of my favorites. It's the type of album you can put on repeat, and never get tired of it. Air's "Moon Safari" offers an eclectic mix of songs that are completely different from one another, but flow well nicely from track to track. Listen to it just for the sake of listening to it, play it at a party - this is versatile. My friends gave it a listen, and they (all with many different musical tastes, might I add) all loved it. "Moon Safari" remains classic and modern at the same time. Completely mellow, with substance.

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5.0 out of 5 stars ISO more like this!, Jun 21 2004

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This is my first ambient/techno music cd. I'd heard 'All I Need' on satellite several years ago and was hooked right away, but never bothered to look up the cd until now. I love the instrumental - especially the first track. Wish I could find more of the same - I'm not into the trip-hop side of this genre I'm finding so any recommendations greatly appreciated.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best of 1998
I remember this was like the album of the year in 1998. Everyone was playing it nonstop. I was at a new year's eve party at the end of 1998 and someone put this album on and it... Read more

Published on Jun 15 2004 by alexander laurence

2.0 out of 5 stars A Mediocre Attempt at Musical Metaphysics.
Air's sixth record, Moon Safari (1998), is an illustration of what would happen if you locked Jewel in a lounge with only a synthesizer and fifty ecstasy tablets for a month--that... Read more

Published on Jun 7 2004 by Nobody!