AIR

"Talkie Walkie" reunites us with the Air that we know: two hopelessly indulgent romantics with an ear in the past and an eye on the future. It’s a collection of cool, cosmic pop songs that dispense with notions of time and space, wallowing instead on a cloud of poignant psychedelia. Air is a music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel. Their form of electronic music was influenced by the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Francis Lai. Other influences include psychedelic and progressive rock pioneers Pink Floyd, film composer Ennio Morricone, krautrockers Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk, early pioneers of the eurodance electronica subgenre Space, Jean-Jacques Perrey and Claude Perraudin, French crooner Serge Gainsbourg, and soft rock duo The Carpenters. Air use many of their studio instruments (like Moog synthesizers, the Korg MS-20, Wurlitzer and Vocoder) live on stage, where their ability to improvise is more clearly highlighted.