Just got my hands on this soundtrack for the movie “Virgin Suicides” from 1999. This was back in the days when Air was still a young band I guess, and the cuts on this CD are very fresh sounding.
Very acoustic and ofcourse lots of strings and pentatonic melodies.
The filtered synthesizer sounds are very prominent alo on these tracks. They sound very organic and it seems like they are actually played by hand – the indidiual phrases anyway. Not that it makes so much of a difference as long as it works – and that it does I think.
These tracks are very cinematic ofcourse and its very obvious that you are listening to an Air album.
Plenty of horns is here and also the odd organ sticks his head in. One of them really sounding a lot like a churchorgan.
All the tracks are downbeat I would say and its easy to picture yourself in the hammack chilling to this album when a hard days labour is done.
Even though some of the tracks have pretty harsh and dark voiceovers – from the movie I guess.
I never saw the movie, but from the title I would say its pretty obvious that there needed to be some darkness lurking in these tracks – and there definitely are darker vibes on this album also.
But hey – thats the other side of the coin right 
I like it – nearly all the tracks have something about them. If you are into soundtracks I would go and buy this album.
Its out on emi music France and the movie is directed by Sofia Coppola – the daughter of the famous Francis Ford Coppola.
I recommend this little trip into the unknown.
CHill out downbeat artist Ganga
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