Air
Pocket Symphony
R'n'B NeoSoul air return with their new album 'pocket symphony' the album made up of 12 songs that were recorded over the last 18 months and produced by long time partner nigel godrich features vocals by dunckel and godin themselves but also from jarvis cocker and neil hannon divine comedy while conventional instruments continue to play a great role air have fashioned several tracks from the new album with the addition of far east classical instruments which godin learnt to play from an okinawa master namely the koto usually referred to as a japanese floor harp and the shamisen a 3stringed instrument which is one of japan's most popular classical instruments and resembles the banjo working their way throughout the album as musical ricochets these unearthly sounds of an alien nature add another motif to air's sonic architecture