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Air Discusses North American Tour, Olympic Ceremony Performance and the Prospect of New Music: ‘We Need to Feel the Audience Really Wants It’
French electronic band Air discusses their North American tour, their Olympics closing ceremony performance, and the possibility of making new music.
But as the dreamy, mid-tempo outliers jockeying for position with Daft Punk, Bob Sinclar, Cassius and Etienne de Crecy during the dancefloor-filling French Touch movement, duo Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel have always moved at their own pace. Just days after they joined their countrymen, Phoenix, at the Stade de France to perform “Playground Love” in front of the biggest audience of their careers, Godin and Dunckel spoke to Variety via Zoom. In addition to offering their short-term reflections on that experience (“I saw Tom Cruise rehearsing his jump,” Godin revealed), the duo talked about the inspirations for their tour (which hits Los Angeles Sept. 29 and 30), and the cobwebs that needed dusting off to work together again after a lengthy hiatus to pursue a variety of solo projects.
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