I bought a cd by Air called Pocket Symphony (super-cool website) about 6 months ago or so. Never cracked it open until about a month ago.
Fantastic, much of it wonderfully ambient and a little evocative of a more rhythmically driven sort of Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd. Great stuff. There's one track that reminds me of gamelan, which I love. One of the songs is written by and features vocals of Jarvis Cocker, so the cool quotient is oober-high on this one.
Someone set the song Mer du Japon to this video of Tokyo trains to quite lovely effect, in my opinion. Enjoy!
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Kewl sounds, will keep an eye open for tour dates. Guessed that they were French when you mentioned the Jarvis Cocker collaboration as he has been living in Paris for a few years.
That was a nice vid! And the train had to be an express coz it didn't stop at a single station... or that was some great, seamless editing, whichever.
Tokyo trains are awesome. I pretty much rode 'em every day for two years while living there, and the trains are always on time (to the second!) and are nearly always crowded in a way that's simply inexplicable to western minds, as well. You see some pretty strange stuff on Tokyo trains... especially on the last train of the night... ;-)
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