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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. 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. 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. As of February 2012, it had sold 77,000 copies in the United States.
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
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Pocket Symphony.
= 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
=Joey Waronker – drums, percussion (tracks 1, 3, 7)
Magic Malik – flute (tracks 2, 7)
Tony Allen – drums (track 2)
Jarvis Cocker – vocals (track 3)
Neil Hannon – vocals (track 10)
Joby Talbot – string arrangements, string conducting (tracks 1, 12)
David Richard Campbell – string arrangements (track 10)
= Technical
=Nigel Godrich – production, engineering
Air – production
Darrell Thorp – engineering
Florian Lagatta – engineering
Simon Hayes – engineering assistance
Andrew Rugg – engineering assistance
Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)
= Artwork
=Xavier Veilhan – artwork
Lili Fleury – artwork
Laurent Pinon – artwork
Charts
References
A pocket symphony is a song with extended form. The term was popularized by English journalist Derek Taylor, who used it to describe the Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations". (The description of a "pocket" symphony had appeared in print since as early as 1928.)
Attributions
= Popular music
=The Beatles – "A Day in the Life" (1967)
T. Rex – "Telegram Sam" (1971)
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
Paul McCartney & Wings – "Band on the Run" (1973)
Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975)
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android" (1997)
Weezer - "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" (2008)
The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations" (1966)
= Classical compositions
=Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 12
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik
See also
Pocket Symphonies
Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars
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