Travel Tip: Pop Culture and Cinema in United States Air
Air UNITED STATES LOS ANGELES • The Greek Theatre • Ongoing
The Parisian duo Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin in concert with special guest Sondre Lerche. While conventional instruments continue to play a great role, Air have fashioned several tracks from the new album Pocket Symphony with the addition of Far East classical instruments which Godin learnt to play from Shoko, a Japanese master - namely the Koto (usually referred to as a Japanese floor harp) and the Shamisen, a 3-stringed instrument which is one of Japan’s most popular classical instruments & resembles the banjo. Working their way throughout the album as musical ricochets, these unearthly sounds of an alien nature add another motif to Air’s sonic architecture.