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2007 studio album by Air
Pocket Symphony
Released 5 March 2007 (2007-03-05 ) Studio Revolvair (Paris) Gang (Paris) Length 47 :47
Label
Virgin
Producer
Pocket Symphony is the fourth studio album by French
electronic music duo
Air , released on 5 March 2007 by
Virgin Records . It features collaborations with
Jarvis Cocker and
Neil Hannon .
[12] Pocket Symphony incorporates some of the Japanese instruments Godin had recently learned to play from an
Okinawan master musician: the
koto (also referred to as a Japanese floor harp) and the three-string, banjo-like
shamisen . However, a press release claims that "conventional instruments continue to play a great role" in the duo's music.
[13] The album features art by
Xavier Veilhan .
Pocket Symphony debuted at number 40 on the US
Billboard 200 , with 17,000 copies sold in its first week.
[14] As of February 2012, it had sold 77,000 copies in the United States.
[15]
The term "
pocket symphony " was popularised by English journalist
Derek Taylor , who used it to describe
the Beach Boys ' 1966 single "
Good Vibrations ".
Track listing
All tracks are written by
JB Dunckel and
Nicolas Godin , except "One Hell of a Party", lyrics by
Jarvis Cocker , and "Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping", lyrics by
Neil Hannon and Cocker
Title 1. "Space Maker" 4:01 2. "
Once Upon a Time " 5:01 3. "One Hell of a Party" 4:02 4. "Napalm Love" 3:27 5. "Mayfair Song" 4:19 6. "Left Bank" 4:06 7. "Photograph" 3:51 8. "
Mer du Japon " 3:04 9. "Lost Message" 3:32 10. "Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping" 3:36 11. "Redhead Girl" 4:31 12. "Night Sight" 4:17
Japanese edition bonus track
[16] Title 13. "Time Capsule" 4:19
iTunes Store bonus tracks
[17] Title 13. "The Duelist" (featuring Jarvis Cocker and Charlotte Gainsbourg) 4:40 14. "Crickets" (originally not available in the United States
[18] ) 3:32
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Pocket Symphony .
[19]
Air
Nicolas Godin – bass (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7–9, 11) ;
solina (track 1) ; guitars (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6–11) ;
synth bass (track 2) ; drum machine (tracks 2, 4, 5, 9) ;
shamisen (tracks 2, 3) ; piano (track 3) ;
koto (tracks 3, 8–11) ; synthesizers (track 5) ; vocals (track 6) ;
glockenspiel (tracks 7, 11) ; tambourine (tracks 7, 8) ; drums (track 8) ;
Memorymoog (tracks 9, 11) ; wind chimes (track 11)
JB Dunckel – piano (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7–11) ; synthesizers (tracks 1–9, 11, 12) ;
vibraphone (tracks 1, 10) ; vocals (tracks 2, 4, 6–8, 11) ; glockenspiel (track 2) ; samples (track 3) ;
ARP percussions , xylophone (track 5) ; voice pad (tracks 5, 11) ; drum machine (tracks 6) ;
Rhodes (tracks 7, 11, 12) ; synth bass (track 10)
Additional musicians
Technical
Artwork
Xavier Veilhan – artwork
Lili Fleury – artwork
Laurent Pinon – artwork
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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"Reviews for Pocket Symphony by Air" .
Metacritic . Retrieved 13 June 2018 .
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ISSN
1351-0193 .
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ISSN
0886-3032 . Retrieved 13 June 2018 – via
Google Books .
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ISSN
1368-0722 .
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^ Hasty, Katie (14 March 2007).
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