Le Voyage Dans La Lune

Air | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2012)
• Original Release Date: 2012
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B0069K38EU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,644 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #47 in Music > Dance & DJ > Electronica

Editorial Reviews

Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) is a classic black & white silent film by revered French director Georges Méliès. Released in 1902, this legendary 14-minute film is widely considered one of the most important works in film history, and the very first to use science fiction as its theme, incorporating special effects that were very state-of-the-art at the turn of the 19th century. It was loosely based on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells The First Men In The Moon.

A hand-colored print, the only one known to survive, was rediscovered in 1993 by the Filmoteca de Catalunya. It was in a state of almost total decomposition, and many years of painstaking, manual restoration took place until 2010, when digital technology finally came to the rescue. Following another year at the Technicolor Lab of Los Angeles, it was ready to share with the world.

Eager to put a contemporary spin on this classic silent film, the producers decided to approach AIR's Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel, to compose an original modern soundtrack, an enormous honor for French musicians, considering the film s place in the canon of French cinema. With the aim of premiering at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, AIR set themselves a tight deadline, locking their studio doors and working around the clock to serve these classic images with brave new sounds. Complete with a new soundtrack by AIR, the film debuted at Cannes on May 11, 2011 to immediate and unanimous acclaim.

Spurred on by their work on this short movie, AIR decided to develop the project into a full album inspired by the film. Expanding the original musical themes beyond cinematic instrumentals, the album also features the vocal talents of Au Revoir Simone and Victoria Legrand (Beach House). The band's lunar fascinations have been evident since the beginning of their career with the release of the seminal 1998 classic Moon Safari. Now in 2012 Nicolas and JB have returned to explore the further regions of their very unique musical "space."

Nicolas explains: "'A Trip to the Moon' is undoubtedly more organic than most of our past projects. We wanted it to sound 'handmade','knocked together', a bit like Méliès' special effects. Everything is played live ... like Méliès' film, our soundtrack is nourished by living art."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Air delivers again, February 7, 2012

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R. Solis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le voyage dans la lune (MP3 Download)

Haunting and imaginative and don't know what else. I'm glad that there are bands out there like Air when I get tired of hearing the same humdrum...

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1.0 out of 5 stars amazon mp3 delivery is sooooo bad, February 7, 2012

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thinner - See all my reviews

This review is from: Le voyage dans la lune (MP3 Download)

This album is awesome. I heard it already. I wanted to do the right thing and purchase the album especially seeing as how it comes with the 16:00 movie coloration. Unfortunately, trying to buy it was more frustrating than anything I have come across in recent memory. I use firefox as my browser, and was made to download an "album downloader" which opened up an Explorer browser by default. 1 hurdle. I had to look up my password since its saved on my firefox browser in order to enter it in IE. 2 hurdles. The album never downloaded, just some free single from Air, even though I DEFINITELY was on the album page and clicked to purchase the 3.99 digital download. 3 hurdles. I called customer service to see if they could sort it out. The person spoke broken English and could not figure anything out. 4 hurdles. I am writing this review to say that the album is great if you don't mind possibly jumping over numerous hurdles to get it. Thanks Amazon for reminding me that getting things illegally is MUCH easier than actually paying for them. Feel free to comment on this post with your nay saying. I know how to operate the internet. Never again will I attempt to purchase music from Amazon.