Pocket Symphony

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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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] As of February 2012, it had sold 77,000 copies in the United States.[4]

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

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Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Pocket Symphony.[5]

Air

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Additional musicians

  • Joey Waronker – drums, percussion (tracks 1, 3, 7)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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  • Neil Hannon – vocals (track 10)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Joby Talbot – string arrangements, string conducting (tracks 1, 12)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • David Richard Campbell – string arrangements (track 10)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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

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