{"id":9379,"date":"2009-05-01T20:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2015-10-23T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:16:51","slug":"album-review-air-moon-safari-10th-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/album-review-air-moon-safari-10th-anniversary-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Air &#8212; Moon Safari 10th Anniversary Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/images\/air_moon_safari.jpg\" alt=\"air_moon_safari\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the very tail-end of the 20th century, Air &#8212; the duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Beno\u00eet Dunckel &#8212; released their debut, <i>Moon Safari<\/i>. Their blend of dance, exotica, rock and atmospheric(!) arrangements was innovative in &#8217;98, and sounds every bit as fresh today, on this, the <i>Moon Safari<\/i> 10th Anniversary Edition.<\/p>\n<p><i>Moon Safari<\/i> isn&#8217;t all Moogs and vocoders; the disc is awash in &#8220;real&#8221; instruments, and the vocals &#8212; provided by a cast of guest stars, setting the template for later groups like Zero 7 &#8212; serve as an instrument themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Two bonus discs add to the value of the 10th Anniversary reissue. The remixes are more thoughtful than the standard throw-some-drum-samples-on-it approach, and the live cuts &#8212; especially the surprising live &#8220;Kelly Watch the Stars&#8221; shows that Air could (and did) rock out onstage when they wanted to. The DVD disc includes the long-out-of-print documentary about the group, <i>Eating, Sleeping, Waiting &amp; Playing<\/i> plus four music videos and a few other goodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the very tail-end of the 20th century, Air &#8212; the duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Beno\u00eet Dunckel &#8212; released their debut, Moon Safari. Their blend of dance, exotica, rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,64,65],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop","category-reissue","category-review","tag-air","cat-51-id","cat-64-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}