Concert review: Air at Hard Rock Live in Orlando (with pics + setlist)
source: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/03/21/concert-review-air-at-hard-rock-live-i...
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"...Inside, the blocky AIR logo was projected onto a giant screen at the rear of the stage. The duo – dark-haired Jean-Benoît Dunckel and gingery Nicolas Godin – were joined by drummer Joey Waronker, a three-piece set-up that seemed dwarfed by the stage’s generous size, and the screen towering up behind them enforced this sense of smallness.
But Nic and Jean owned the space, even if they didn’t move around in it that much, and performed their 90-minute set with blasé confidence, exuding French cool and looking airguitartrés suave in their matching white collared shirts. They shared surreal vocal and vocoder duties, Jean performing on a set of antique keyboards and synthesizers – Minimoog, clavinet, Wurlitzer, and what seemed to be his rumored Korg MS-20, a patchable synth with a panel that allows rerouting of both audio and modulation via an external signal processor. (I say this because of the man I nicknamed the “synth miner,” a stage tech who’d come out every song or few to make slight adjustments on the knobs of the antique synth, a headlamp on his head illuminating the board in front of him.) Nic went between electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and a short stack of keyboards. Both members of the band were bathed in the saturated stage lights and swathed in the designs that also played on the screens behind them ..."
READ MORE + SEE PHOTO GALLERY: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/03/21/concert-review-air-at-hard...
But Nic and Jean owned the space, even if they didn’t move around in it that much, and performed their 90-minute set with blasé confidence, exuding French cool and looking airguitartrés suave in their matching white collared shirts. They shared surreal vocal and vocoder duties, Jean performing on a set of antique keyboards and synthesizers – Minimoog, clavinet, Wurlitzer, and what seemed to be his rumored Korg MS-20, a patchable synth with a panel that allows rerouting of both audio and modulation via an external signal processor. (I say this because of the man I nicknamed the “synth miner,” a stage tech who’d come out every song or few to make slight adjustments on the knobs of the antique synth, a headlamp on his head illuminating the board in front of him.) Nic went between electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and a short stack of keyboards. Both members of the band were bathed in the saturated stage lights and swathed in the designs that also played on the screens behind them ..."
READ MORE + SEE PHOTO GALLERY: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/03/21/concert-review-air-at-hard...
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- Air, French Duo
