JB DUNCKEL (AIR) & JONATHAN FITOUSSI
MIRAGES II
AIR ‘s JB Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi have joined forces to release Mirages II,
a sonic exploration of analogue synthesis, moving from the minimal to the cinematic.
« After their first album as a duo, released in 2019,
JB and Jonathan have gone back together to build another work,
in which their two personalities unfold even more surreptitiously, always very attentive to each other.
Pieces are heard forming, coalescing, galaxies in the making.
At their heart, an electronic spirit, anchored to a very mineral rhythm.
There are glimpses and echoes of the great German musicians of the 70s, with their infallible metronome.
There are also ghosts of Detroit’s hypnotic machines.
Above all, this album moves forward as if it were running slowly, its rhythms giving a cadence that calms and radiates, in sparkling harmony…
These mirages, second chapter of that name, are at their zenith. »
Joseph Ghosn
Conceived as part of Xavier Veilhan’s Studio Venezia project at the 57th Venice Biennale.
Electronic musicians JB Dunckel and Jonathan Fitoussi have joined forces to release Mirages, a sonic exploration of analogue synthesis, released on The Vinyl Factory.
Born inside the studio which Xavier Veilhan built as part of the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, the album was finished in Dunckel’s Paris-based studio, and features synthesisers amassed over several years, including an Arp 2600, PPG Wave, Synthi A, Buchla, Yamaha CS60, Korg MS20.
« Synthesizers amassed through the years, which on this album, conceived with precision and care over the course of one year, reveal their essence –and more importantly, their soul, going from very cinematographic parts to very direct others.
Their mirages are inventive, their mirages are fertile.
Joseph Ghosn