(Instrumental)
Air
Air is a French music duo from Versailles, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Their critically acclaimed debut album, Moon Safari, including the track "Sexy Boy", was an international success in 1998. Its follow-up, The Virgin Suicides, was the score to Sofia Coppola's first film of the same name. The band has since released the albums 10 000 Hz Legend, Talkie Walkie, Pocket Symphony, Love 2, Le voyage dans la lune and Music for Museum. The band is influenced by a wide variety of musical styles and artists.
listen:
The Main Mix
BTW: I was privileged to meet Mr. Brubeck and his group several times when they played in San Diego back in the late 1950's; one time there was a scheduling screw up at the Musicians' Union hall and they didn't have a place to rehearse .. so naturally, my dad invited them all over to our home (4529 Rhode Island Street, San Diego, CA 92116) where we had a 16x54 foot living room ... They jammed for hours that time, my dad would occasionally sit in on upright bass and I was once invited to sit at the drums and try remember my lessons from Mr. Leo Hamilton about Back Beats. At the time, it was as exciting as when Gene Krupa came over for a visit and after going outside to fix his nose came back in and played a 30 minute set of random drum sounds that — if God had been good to me then and digital recorders were invented — would be priceless today. But, Mr. Brubeck and his group were absolutely the most laidback and tightly integrated bunch of musicians I've seen. Whew .. memories are golden — some say .... I just wish I could go back ...
It's been two hours now.
It's been two years now! How time flies...
Discovered it in 1999
Usually I don't bother giving low ratings at all, if I don't consider a song "very good" and upwards (say, above 6), I don't have a need to "exercise my right as a registered RP listener to rate a song low".
I especially don't care for people who need to share their negativity / bad ratings in this forum. There's always PSD and other radio stations. I almost never use PSD, because I totally appreciate Bill's & Rebecca's artistic approach to playlist creation and music choice. For me, using PSD would almost be like skipping an act from a theatre play (that I don't like) by leaving the seat - and coming back afterwards. Radio Paradise program is a creation on its own that has authors behind it, and I fully respect that.
So I am not trying to "share my negativity", just my emotions about this song. I don't even think it's a "bad song" - I just don't like it (totally subjective, of course) because it stirs something negative inside me that (as evidenced by this post) needs to get out.
Sorry about that. :-/
I was riding to work on a snowy February morning circa 1999, leaving Manhattan driving up the Hudson to Ossining NY. My coworker put Air in the CD player saying I might like this band he had heard in college. I think it took about 5 measures and I was floating, levitating, leaving my human body to become one with the aural sensations surrounding me. Rarely does a first listen ever bring me to this level. Now two decades + later, it still resonates and recalls so much. Many thanks to this band.
Sorry, I can't think of any Brubeck connection whatsoever.
Could you please explain? Did you perhaps post this on the wrong song by mistake?
It's been two hours now.
Oops, it's not Zero 7.