Moon Safari

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This article is about the Air album. For the band of the same name, see Moon Safari (band).
Moon Safari
File:Moonsafari.air.albumcover.jpg
Studio album by Air
Released 16 January 1998 (1998-01-16)
Recorded April – June 1997
Studio Around the Golf and Studio Gang in Paris; strings recorded at
Abbey Road in London; mixed at
Studio Plus XXX in Paris; mastered at the Exchange in Camden
Genre Downtempo[1]
Length 43:35
Label Virgin, Caroline, Parlophone, Astralwerks
Producer Air
Air chronology
Premiers Symptômes
(1997)Premiers Symptômes1997		 Moon Safari
(1998)		 The Virgin Suicides
(2000)The Virgin Suicides2000
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 5/5 stars[3]
Entertainment Weekly A−[4]
NME 8/10[5]
Pitchfork Media 7.9/10[6]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5/5 stars[8]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars[9]
Spin 7/10[10]
The Village Voice A−[11]

Moon Safari is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Air, released on 16 January 1998. On 14 April 2008, Virgin Records re-released Moon Safari to mark the album's tenth anniversary. The limited edition album came with a bound book, a DVD documentary about the duo, and an extra CD with live performances and remixes. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album #93 on their Best Album of the Nineties list,[12] while the French edition named this album #65 on their list of the 100 Greatest French rock albums.[13] Moon Safari set the stage for the budding downtempo music style and, according to Nielsen SoundScan, had sold 364,000 copies by 2009.

Track listing

Original release

All songs written and composed by Air, except where noted. 

No. Title Writer(s) English translation Length
1. "La femme d'argent"     The Silver Woman 7:10
2. "Sexy Boy"       4:57
3. "All I Need"   lyrics by Beth Hirsch   4:28
4. "Kelly Watch the Stars"       3:44
5. "Talisman"       4:16
6. "Remember"   co-written with Jean-Jacques Perrey   2:34
7. "You Make It Easy"   lyrics by Hirsch   4:00
8. "Ce matin là"   co-written with Patrick Woodcock That Morning 3:38
9. "New Star in the Sky (Chanson pour Solal)"     Song for Solal 5:38
10. "Le voyage de Pénélope"     Penelope's Voyage 3:10
Notes

10th anniversary rerelease (2008)

Bonus Disc[14]
No. Title English translation Length
1. "Remember" (David Whitaker Version)   2:25
2. "Kelly Watch the Stars" (Live on the BBC, 1998)   2:44
3. "J'ai dormi sous l'eau" (Live on the BBC, 1998) I Slept Under Water 4:10
4. "Sexy Boy" (Live on the BBC, 1998)   3:10
5. "Kelly Watch the Stars" (The Moog Cookbook Remix)   5:40
6. "Trente millions d'amis" (Live on KCRW radio, 1998) Thirty Million Friends 4:34
7. "You Make It Easy" (Live on KCRW, 1998)   4:45
8. "Bossa 96" (Demo)   4:44
9. "Kelly Watch the Stars" (Demo)   3:46
10. "Sexy Boy" (Beck "Sex Kino Mix")   6:36
DVD
  • "Eating Sleeping Waiting & Playing" by Mike Mills.
  • Music videos for "Sexy Boy", "Kelly Watch the Stars", "All I Need", and "Le soleil est près de moi" (from the Premiers Symptômes EP).
  • Graphics and storyboards.

Personnel

  • Jean-Benoît Dunckel – keyboards, synths, organ, vocals, piano, pan pipes, hand claps, glockenspiel
  • Nicolas Godin – bass, synths, percussion, vocals, guitar, hand claps, harmonica, glockenspiel, piano, organ, pan pipes, drums
  • Beth Hirsch – vocals
  • Enfants square Burcq – vocals
  • Alf (a.k.a. Stephane Briat) – hand claps
  • Caroline L. – hand claps
  • Marlon – drums
  • Eric Regert – organ
  • David Whitaker – string arrangement, conducting
  • P. Woodcock – guitar, trombone

Charts

References

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  13. ↑ Magazine Rolling Stone, n°18 of February 2010, ISSN 1764-1071
  14. ↑ Moon Safari at Discogs
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