Coliseum, LondonThe strangely ageless French chill-out duo deliver Moon Safari in an audiovisual spectacular that goes far beyond nostalgia
The strangely ageless French chill-out duo deliver Moon Safari in an audiovisual spectacular that goes far beyond nostalgiahe languid opening notes of La Femme d’Argent are a musical madeleine that elicits a collective gasp from the Coliseum. God only knows how many late nights and fuzzy dawnssoundtracked when it came out in 1998.
While playing all of Moon Safari, followed by a greatest hits set, in the gilded home of English National Opera is an enticing enough notion, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel deliver far more than high-end nostalgia. They have sometimes struggled to transport their exquisitely arranged music to the stage, but tonight’s presentation is light years ahead, propelled by technology that was inconceivable in 1998.
Shades of Stanley Kubrick … ‘Air could be the house band for the interstellar salon in 2001: A Space Odyssey.’The strangely ageless duo – Godin on guitars, Dunckel on synths –and their drummer perform in an oblong box lined with video screens and lights. Dressed in immaculate white, they could be the house band for the interstellar salon in 2001: A Space Odyssey – a 60s dream of the world to come.
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