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Those who read me for some time know that the name of my blog, The Cherry Blossom Girl, is inspired by a song by french band AIR. When I started my blog, I chose this song because I feel close to their world, but mainly because I recognized myself in the melody. It seemed to perfectly illustrate what I love and feel..
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Life is full of surprises sometimes. Very pleasant surprises.
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I met Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin a few months ago, at the opening of Painted Love by Cartier. A short film with music composed by AIR. It is more precisely a mutual friend that introduced us (Yan Céh, who made the interview in the making that you can see here).
The first time I talked with Nicolas, he told me that he already knew my blog. I was really surprised honoured when I heard that! I also had a nice and long discussion with Jean-Benoit, talking especially about the song Cherry Blossom Girl.
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A few weeks later, AIR released their new album: Le Voyage Dans la Lune.
This album comes from the original soundtrack they composed for the new colorized version of the famous Gorges Melies film « A Trip to the Moon » ( 1902 ).
I met a few times with them, and then we had the idea to organize a photoshoot. The idea of ​​the places came immediately to my mind: le Palais de la Découverte! I went there when I was little, and remembered the big moon on the second floor. There was no better place!
I admire AIR a lot, and I’ve been listening to their music for over ten years now, Â so it was very emotional for me to take their pictures.
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And it’s with the same emotion that I am publishing a photo from the shoot today.
I realize that since 2007, some really cool things happened thanks to my blog. Meeting AIR was only a dream … which is now a reality.
We talked about music, their inspirations, but also about my favorite movie: The Virgin Suicides, for which they composed the original sountrack in 1999.
I learned that they created the music for Sofia Coppola’s movie in an isolated house in the countryside, not far from the capital. They seemed to have rather special memories about this time: it was winter and they received every day from the movie quite morbid sequences of dead girls.
The songs composed for the different scenes were also moved to other sequences thereafter. I loved having a « backstage »Â vision of the film, and I would be curious to see their own musical version of The Virgin Suicides, before it was changed.
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But let go back to what’s new ! Their new album, A Trip To The Moon ( Le Voyage Dans La Lune ) was released last January. My favorite track is Seven Stars, and perfectly illustrate what I felt when I met Jean-Benoît and Nicolas for the first time: there were stars in my eyes !
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AIR official website: aircheology
AIR MySpace Music
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