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Air review – a wild, jawdropping, widescreen extravaganza
Coliseum, LondonThe strangely ageless French chill-out duo deliver Moon Safari in an audiovisual spectacular that goes far beyond nostalgia
While playing all of Moon Safari, followed by a greatest hits set, in the gilded home of English National Opera is an enticing enough notion, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel deliver far more than high-end nostalgia. Shades of Stanley Kubrick … ‘Air could be the house band for the interstellar salon in 2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Photograph: Harry ElletsonThe strangely ageless duo – Godin on guitars, Dunckel on synths –and their drummer perform in an oblong box lined with video screens and lights. Songs steeped in Serge Gainsbourg, Kraftwerk and electronic pioneers such as Jean-Jacques Perrey acquire the freaky velocity of Hawkwind and the imperial grandeur of Pink Floyd.
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