As a classically trained piano player I can say without any doubt that the piano riff in Once Upon A Time is one of the most beautiful piano lines in pop music. This album is a masterpiece.
Listened to this over and over in the wee hours of a quiet night shift job...transcendent, rarefied, atmospheric. This music reaches the soul level of human experience. Thank you, Air, for bringing such magic into an otherwise mundane period of my life.
Air is not completely my kind of music, but I will always keep them a special place somewhere deep in my heart because they are special, probably because of their artistic integrity. Not surprised of their friendship with Daft Punk.
They are not underrated. The real problem is that good tastes are in the minority. Most people have bad taste in music and currently only listen reggaeton.
This reminds me of Plaid a little bit, really immersive. Air just gets better and better with age, although nothing will ever beat Moon Safari for me :)
Air is Art..I was brought up in Paris in the 60s and lived there in the 80s also and this album reminds me of my paris days which were beautiful ...my favourite French band
All french music is garbage. When you have creepy narcissists like Serge Gainsbourg as the best your country has to offer, it's a sad state of affairs.
In Jan 2018 the streaming free radio station SBS Chill, held its annual Chill 100 where listeners vote for their fav song. Air's All I Need, from the Moon Safari album came in at number 1 and, The Silver Lady (La Femme D'argent) came in at number 14. That's 20 years after Moon Safari's initial release... I'll still be listening to AIR through the next decade and beyond because, it's so chill.
Imagine One hell of a party sung by Bryan Ferry, with even more melancholy in his voice... He should make a stylish cover of this one, as he did with Jealous Guy or Let's Stick Together... Bryan, I'll settle for 10 % of the revenues :0)))
rogawo Just a Celeste and a couple of Rhodes . Nothing Lo-fi to be seen here though i understand how you might associate boards of Canada's detuned synths with these mainly acoustic or hammered instruments (with the exception of the rhodes obv.)
Glad to read this comment! When The Duelist started I thought I must be having a lapse in recollection, expecting it to suddenly become familiar but no. It's a lovely track though, as is the one after it. Feel cheated that they're not on my album!
