Nicolas Godin

Nicolas Godin born 25 December 1969 is a French musician best known for being half of the music duo Air Godin was born in Paris ÎledeFrance France and studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Versailles along with soon to be musical partner JeanBenoît Dunckel a mathematics student Before founding Air Godin played in the band Orange with others such as JeanBenoît Dunckel Alex Gopher Xavier Jamaux and Jean de Reydellet He and JeanBenoît have been working together since they were teenagers in the 1980s Contrary to the popular belief the name of the band Air does not stand for Amour Imagination Rêve love imagination dream but rather for description of their music which the duo describes as airy in French aérien In the beginning it was a oneperson project Godin then an architecture student and amateur musician was asked by a childhood friend to write a song for a compilation to be released by Source a small French independent label Modulor Mix a tribute to Le Corbusier was recorded on Godins Portastudio and appeared on the Source Lab album in 1995 With several remixes it was rereleased on British label Mo Wax in 1996 Following this small success Godin asked his friend JeanBenoît Dunckel a classically trained pianist to join him in Air Together they produced further maxisingles for Source with titles like Jai Dormi Sous Leau Les Professionnels Casanova 70 and Le Soleil Est Près De Moi Finally in 1997 Source asked Air to record a whole album The duo spent several months in a recording studio near Paris called Studio de SaintNom and asked a friendfreelance engineer and former Plus XXX assistant Stéphane Alf Briatto work as a sound engineer on that project Their fulllength debut studio album Moon Safari released in 1998 was propelled to chart success by the singles Sexy Boy Kelly Watch the Stars and All I Need Its mixture of synths strings and guitar made it a unique release in the electronica genre at the time Moon Safari went Platinum in the United Kingdom and Gold in France On 18 September 2015 Godin released his first solo album Contrepoint Because Music inspired by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach Godin composed the soundtrack for French series A Very Secret Service 20152018 Godin released his second studio album Concrete and Glass on 24 January 2020 via Because Music Source Article Nicolas Godin from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30