Air wrote and played the music of the album 5:55 by Anglo-French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, which was released in August 2006. The soundtrack for Coppola's October 2006 film Marie Antoinette featured a track by Air ('Il Secondo Giorno'). Air drummer and former Redd Kross member Brian Reitzell put together the soundtrack to 2003's Lost in Translation, including one original contribution by Air titled 'Alone in Kyoto'. In the 2000s, Dunckel and Godin released four studio albums, including 10 000 Hz Legend (2001), Talkie Walkie (2004), Pocket Symphony (2007), and Love 2 (2009).Īir has often collaborated with Coppola. In 1999, Air composed the score The Virgin Suicides to Sofia Coppola's debut film of the same name in 2012, Air wrote its second score to Georges Méliès' Le Voyage Dans La Lune. The album received universal acclaim and became an international success. Its first single, 'Sexy Boy', was heavily played on alternative radio stations.

The band released its first album, Moon Safari, in 1998. Career Īfter making several remixes for other acts in the first half of the 1990s, Air recorded its first EP, Premiers Symptômes, in 1995. Initially Godin worked alone, recording a demo with members of Funkadelic as his backing band before releasing his first entirely solo effort, 'Modular Mix', which featured production by Étienne de Crécy. The former two subsequently contributed to remixes of tracks recorded by Air. Before founding Air, Dunckel and Godin played together in the band Orange with others such as Alex Gopher, Xavier Jamaux and Jean de Reydellet. Nicolas Godin studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles, and Jean-Benoît Dunckel studied mathematics, before forming a band in 1995.

The band is influenced by a wide variety of musical styles and artists. 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. Its follow-up, The Virgin Suicides, was the score to Sofia Coppola's first movie of the same name. Their critically acclaimed debut album, Moon Safari, including the track ' Sexy Boy', was an international success in 1998. Air is a French music duo from Versailles, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel.

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