Artist: Air
Title Of Album: Pocket Symphony
Year Of Release: 06 Mar 2007
Genre: Downtempo, Synth-pop, Ambient
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps I 44.1 Khz I Joint Stereo
Total Time: 47 min 55 sec
Total Size: 109 mb


Air (Pop): Nicolas Godin (vocals, guitar, koto, shamisen, bass shamisen, piano, bass synthesizer, glockenspiel, bass guitar, drum machine, tambourine); JB Dunckel (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, vibraphone, glockenspiel, xylophone, percussion, sampler); Tony Allen (vocals, drum); Magic Malik (flute); Joey Waronker (drum, percussion).

Released in early 2007, POCKET SYMPHONY finds Air once again working with outside singers, as the French electronica duo did on '01's 10,000 HZ LEGEND. This time around, the guests are British vocalists Neil Hannon (aka the Divine Comedy) and Jarvis Cocker (formerly of Pulp), with the latter lending his signature droll charm to the woozy "One Hell of a Party."

The Hannon and Cocker tracks aside, SYMPHONY largely serves as a fine companion piece to the supremely laid-back TALKIE WALKIE, with Nicolas Godin and J.B. Dunckel once again tweaking their own half-whispered vocals under the guidance of producer Nigel Godrich (Beck, Radiohead), most notably on the dreamy, drifting "Once Upon a Time" and "Redhead Girl," which comes across as an ambient cousin to WALKIE's "Cherry Blossom Girl." While Air fans hoping for upbeat tunes like "Sexy Boy" and "Radio Number 1" will be left empty-handed, POCKET SYMPHONY reinforces the notion that Godin and Dunckel are most fascinating when thoroughly at ease.


Tracklist
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1. Space Maker (4:02)
2. Once Upon a Time (5:02)
3. One Hell of a Party (4:02)
4. Napalm Love (3:27)
5. Mayfair Song (4:18)
6. Left Bank (4:07)
7. Photograph (3:51)
8. Mer du Japon (3:04)
9. Lost Message (3:32)
10. Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping (3:36)
11. Redhead Girl (4:33)
12. Night Sight (4:21)