Love, Imagination, Dream – AIR and a Icelandic Folk duo…

From Air

Part II of ten certainly started with music at one extreme of my listening range – I didn’t mind Nena and her 99 red balloons in German – because at least I new the tune – but not very melodic Icelandic folk seamed an odd pairing with AIR – electronic synth with a 70s influence. The variety of chordophones used by Olof Arnalds was interesting.

The synthesizer based AIR – (backronym for Amour Imagination Reve in case you where wondering) – was different to my usual taste for guitar based music – but in the surroundings of Somerset House seamed very fitting and on a warm summer evening smoothed away the memories of a day in the office… The frequent visits to stage of a technician to tweak setting on the various devices being used was a throw back to the pre-computer days. There didn’t appear to be a laptop on stage – which these days is highly unusual – most other groups make these changes at the click of a mouse – or move of a the finger on an apple tracker pad!