Product Description

First full-length album from the downtempo pop duo, Air. Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel both grew up in Versailles but met each other at college in Paris where they formed the band. 'Moon Safari' contains the singles 'Sexy Boy' and 'Kelly Watch The Stars'.

Track Listing

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 La
9. New Star In The Sky
10. Le Voyage De Penelope

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #890 in Music
• Released on: 1998-01-19
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Air - Moon Safari
A great album. a worthy buy. This album has one of my top 10 fav tracks of all time "All I Need". All I Need has great sounds and is very simple format but carries accross a great feeling.

The last review a little harsh... if you like easy going ambient french sounds and you have familurised yourself with Airs previous work then you wont be bored. I like this album and have it on CD and vinyl.

OK, but it was done in the 1970s, kids.
Yes, "Moon Safari" is a pleasant enough album that I bought on the strength of the reviews on this site. Unfortunately, most of the reviewers are too young (as can be seen from their grammar and spelling) to realise that "Moon Safari" sounds a bit like "Shamal" by Gong (possibly played backwards) and THAT was released in the 1970s. Strangely enough (or perhaps not), Gong were partly French, too.

More than just a CD
Air moon safari is more than just a CD it's therapy for the mind body & soul. I have many chill out Cd's but I think that it's far to say that moon safari is by far the best. A striking & fascinating collection of sounds that make this one of the best Cd's in my collection by far. And trust me a have a big collection!