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2x LP Sealed LP on 180g Heavyweight Vinyl – Air are the latest in a long line of acclaimed artists to share their personal music collection with the world in the form of Azuli’s album series ‘Late Night Tales’. Given 75 minutesit’s self evident that The Song is paramount. Thus fellow countryman Sebastien Tellier makes a deserved appearance, alongside artists like Lee Hazelwood, Scott Walker, The Troggs, Minnie Riperton, Robert Wyatt, Japan, Cat Power, Tan Dun and George Delerue, as well as Air’s collaboration with writer Alessandro Baricco “Musica”.
Let’s be honest – French chill-out masters Air were never going to have any trouble blending a sophisticated mix of mood-enhancing rock and pop for the soul. Opening with ‘All Cats Are Grey’ by The Cure (from the start of their dark Trilogy – Faith: nothing like starting as you mean to go on), it soon swoops into even trippier territory with ‘Planet Caravan’ by Black Sabbath (from their 1970 album Paranoid) and into Nino Rota’s ultra-eery ‘O Venezia, Venaga, Venusia (from the original soundtrack to ’76 art-house classic ‘Il Casanova di Fellini, slowly but surely it takes in tracks from The Band, Japan, Scott Walker and Lee Hazlewood. As melancholic as it is after-dark dreamy, you can rest assured that there’s no JLS in the mix here.