AIR will continue their “Moon Safari” tour in 2025. And are coming to Germany for three concerts to perform the songs from their acclaimed 1998 album live. MUSIKEXPRESS presents.
This year, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel have already performed four times to sold-out venues in Berlin (three times in the Theater des Westens, once in the Zitadelle Spandau). Most recently as a special guest of Phoenix at the celebration of the Summer Olympics in Paris.
AIR
play MOON SAFARI
presented by Musikexpress
07/16/25 Munich, Tollwood Festival
07/18/25 Hamburg, city park
06.08.25 Bonn, ARTIFICIAL LAWN
Tickets are available from Friday, December 13, 24 at 10:00 a.m on www.tingeltangel.live, www.eventim.de, as well as at all known presale locations.
ME author Oliver Götz on “Moon Safari”:
Should we believe him? “Whenever I discover a particularly beautiful melody, I want to hide in it and live in it,” said Nicolas ßodin, when asked about the sweetness, airiness and creaminess that flowed from his band Air’s debut. And above all, the almost indecent cleverness of two pop scholars (and, in good French tradition: ex-indie band members, who, in addition to architecture [Godin] and Mathematics (Jean Benoit Dunckel) had obviously extensively studied the minimalism of Kraftwerk, the playfulness of Debussy, the kitsch of Vangelis and the genius of Burt Bacharach.
In pop-retro rhetoric: a straight A. But one wanted to believe that “Moon Safari” was not born out of calculation, but rather stands up to any test as a testament to true dedication.
Those who perhaps know a little too much about pop and therefore thought too much about the manipulative qualities such as the almost tasteless sound design of this flawless debut only to fall for it were soon joined by many more fans of smoothness.
So you could easily doze away for two or three entire months of 1998. The secret knowledge about contemporary electronic music that “Moon Safari” only whispered to you, the high artistry in the arrangements, all the meta levels floating through the higher spheres: you could ignore them, forget them or even have no idea about them. Nevertheless, this record remained and remains a miracle of pop music.