Nicolas is one of my all-time favorite bass players and he deserves a place in the pantheon of greats. I’ll be seeing Air on the Moon Safari tour in a week and I can barely wait
Great interview with the wonderful Monsieur Godin, thank you. I'm 55 now too and had exactly the same four-track and first drum machine! I wonder if he also had a cheap shitty Accessit Spring Reverb, a Casio SK-1 and a Juno-106..? 🤔
Im very late to this but such a wonderful interview. I love where he says he feels the warmth and does not want to leave. Thats exactly how I feel when I listen to Air. I first discovered them while backpacking around the world in 99/2000. You would stop at internet cafes and they would always be playing these wonderful songs including Air. takes me back to wonderful memories!
The legendary producer artist 👨🎨 Air my first introduction to electronic music ✨ now I’m making music and getting inspired by their music. Thanks for sharing :)
Lack of inspiration is terrible, because in music you are a slave to inspiration, you don't know when it comes, and you can work as much as you want, sometimes there are days when you haven't done anything good, and you feel like shit. You could stay home, and come back one day when you're more inspired, but sometimes I feel like it's like a clearing in a forest: you have to go through all the trees first to get to the clearing. And sometimes I feel like you have to have a lot of shitty ideas to suddenly find a good idea. But until you've had all those shitty ideas, you're not going to find it. But maybe I'm wrong. For example, last night I was peacefully sleeping, and at 4 in the morning I heard a melody in my head, I took my iPhone, it was really practical with the recorder you can… but it’s to say that it comes at improbable moments. For example, if you take a song, Venus, the first song of Talkie Walkie, I was on the bus in Paris, I was looking out the window, I was going to pick up my children from school, all of a sudden I heard “You could be from Venus and I could be from Mars”. The melody like that, at an improbable moment, and now it’s a song that’s a classic. It’s weird sometimes we have the impression that it’s not even us. That it comes from somewhere, and we’re just the transmitter. In fact we’re dependent on it. There’s no school to find melodies. It comes like that, and we’re dependent on it. What is very hard with music, sometimes you have ideas and after a while, I don't know, it's hard the lack of inspiration, we work hard sometimes it doesn't come. Sexy Boy: I was in front of my TV and suddenly in the middle of an episode I heard the melody (in my head) I got up from my couch, I plugged in the equipment, and I recorded, it came like that. But 5 minutes before, I had no desire to make music, I was just on my couch watching a (TV) series. And the beginning of my album, Concrete and Glass, I was in Los Angeles, I was driving my car, I was lost in Beverly Hills, I was looking for the house of John Lautner (not sure of the name spelling) who is an architect that I love. It’s a house that’s made of concrete and glass, and I was driving and all of a sudden I hear in my head “I’m looking for a house made of concrete and glass” and it became a song like that. And so it’s rarely when I’m working that I come up with ideas, it’s weird. I’m not a big worker actually, it just comes like that.
Nicolas is one of my all-time favorite bass players and he deserves a place in the pantheon of greats. I’ll be seeing Air on the Moon Safari tour in a week and I can barely wait
Great interview with the wonderful Monsieur Godin, thank you. I'm 55 now too and had exactly the same four-track and first drum machine! I wonder if he also had a cheap shitty Accessit Spring Reverb, a Casio SK-1 and a Juno-106..? 🤔
Im very late to this but such a wonderful interview. I love where he says he feels the warmth and does not want to leave. Thats exactly how I feel when I listen to Air. I first discovered them while backpacking around the world in 99/2000. You would stop at internet cafes and they would always be playing these wonderful songs including Air. takes me back to wonderful memories!
The legendary producer artist 👨🎨 Air my first introduction to electronic music ✨ now I’m making music and getting inspired by their music. Thanks for sharing :)
this is also my main inspiration in life, air music is on another level
Love the Gainsbourg musical lesson! Great video. Also love that he has the 4 track
Lovely
Can someone translate that answer on writers block for me pretty pls?
Lack of inspiration is terrible, because in music you are a slave to inspiration, you don't know when it comes, and you can work as much as you want, sometimes there are days when you haven't done anything good, and you feel like shit.
You could stay home, and come back one day when you're more inspired, but sometimes I feel like it's like a clearing in a forest: you have to go through all the trees first to get to the clearing. And sometimes I feel like you have to have a lot of shitty ideas to suddenly find a good idea. But until you've had all those shitty ideas, you're not going to find it. But maybe I'm wrong.
For example, last night I was peacefully sleeping, and at 4 in the morning I heard a melody in my head, I took my iPhone, it was really practical with the recorder you can… but it’s to say that it comes at improbable moments.
For example, if you take a song, Venus, the first song of Talkie Walkie, I was on the bus in Paris, I was looking out the window, I was going to pick up my children from school, all of a sudden I heard “You could be from Venus and I could be from Mars”. The melody like that, at an improbable moment, and now it’s a song that’s a classic.
It’s weird sometimes we have the impression that it’s not even us. That it comes from somewhere, and we’re just the transmitter. In fact we’re dependent on it. There’s no school to find melodies. It comes like that, and we’re dependent on it.
What is very hard with music, sometimes you have ideas and after a while, I don't know, it's hard the lack of inspiration, we work hard sometimes it doesn't come.
Sexy Boy: I was in front of my TV and suddenly in the middle of an episode I heard the melody (in my head) I got up from my couch, I plugged in the equipment, and I recorded, it came like that. But 5 minutes before, I had no desire to make music, I was just on my couch watching a (TV) series.
And the beginning of my album, Concrete and Glass, I was in Los Angeles, I was driving my car, I was lost in Beverly Hills, I was looking for the house of John Lautner (not sure of the name spelling) who is an architect that I love. It’s a house that’s made of concrete and glass, and I was driving and all of a sudden I hear in my head “I’m looking for a house made of concrete and glass” and it became a song like that. And so it’s rarely when I’m working that I come up with ideas, it’s weird. I’m not a big worker actually, it just comes like that.