Le Voyage Dans Le Lune
Album | Air (music group)
Spacey Frenchmen set celestial sights on a cinematic classic.
The music of stargazing French electronic duo Air has always had a sweeping, cinematic quality that feels tailor made for the moving image. And while it's impossible to guess what early moviemaker Georges Méliès (the subject of Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo) would have made of the spacey sounds of his futuristic countrymen, Air's commissioned soundtrack for Méliès's 1902 silent movie classic Le Voyage Dans La Lune, offers a tantalizing musical accompaniment that respectfully pays homage to the director's fanciful depiction of a moon voyage. Filled with fuzzy psych-rock textures, unidentified synth and guitar sounds, and frantic Moog runs, in parts the album sounds like it's literally blasting off into space. But it's the gorgeous "Seven Stars" (featuring guest vocalist Victoria Legrand of Beach House) and the propulsive "Fever" that sets its celestial sights on matching, in sound, the original film's fantastical vision.
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