{"id":32542,"date":"2019-10-20T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32542"},"modified":"2019-10-16T20:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:56:40","slug":"nicolas-godin-air-co-founder-returns-with-the-border-single-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32542","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Godin (Air Co-Founder) returns with \u2018The Border\u2019 single + video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nicolas Godin\u00a0has shared his new track\u00a0<em>The Border<\/em> in anticipation of his new solo album which is due for release early next year via\u00a0Because Music. With its soft ambient pulse and melting minimalism, <em>The Border <\/em>is a perfect entry-point to Godin\u2019s new music, its levitating synths, vocoded vocals and scudding bass drifting into view with understated elegance. Watch the video clip for the track via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4FnyhaVwCe4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years after releasing his acclaimed debut solo album\u00a0\u2018Contrepoint\u2019 which channelled the influence of Bach into a rich, resonant and hugely rewarding spread of musical explorations, the founder of groundbreaking French electronic group Air continues the musical journey that began when 1998\u2019s\u00a0\u2019Moon Safari\u2019, became the sublimely weightless soundtrack of its time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the track Godin said:\u00a0<em>\u201cI wrote this song thinking of the great architect Mies van der Rohe. He built the Barcelona pavilion in 1929 on the hill of Montjuic in Barcelona and this building swept away all the past of the history of architecture to open a new page of human history, making the world enter into modern architecture. In short, it\u2019s the story of someone who asks some others to follow him to the Spanish border by the sea to show them a new path towards freedom and peace\u2026leaving everything behind.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alden Volney\u00a0directs the visually seductive accompanying video of which he says:\u00a0<em>\u201cI wanted to explore the idea of freeing yourself from all the clutter and the noise, both physical and emotional. It\u2019s about travel. Being hundreds of kilometers away from home and the identity crisis inducing realisation that you\u2019re letting the stuff you hoard define you. 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