Jean-Benoît Dunckel (born 7 September 1969) is a French musician best known for being one half of the French music duo Air, along with Nicolas Godin. In the 1980s, he formed the band Orange with Alex ...

Outer space has been a longtime fascination of Jean-Benoît Dunckel. His band Air named their debut album Moon Safari, had singles titled “Kelly Watch the Stars” and “Surfing on a Rocket,” and composed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been a busy stretch for Air’s Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. For the past 20 months and counting, the French duo has ...

Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of French duo Air, is releasing his sophomore solo album H+ under the name JB Dunckel. It’s due out March 16 via Sony Music France/Jive Epic. Previously he shared the ...

JB Dunckel (full name Jean-Benoît Dunckel), one half of French duo Air, is releasing his third solo album, Carbon, June 24 via Prototyp Recordings. Now he has shared its second single, “Zombie Park.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicolas Godin at a Berlin concert marking the reissue of the album "Moon Safari". Gerald Matzka/dpa In January 1998, two ...

The austerity held for only so long. As the lustrous opening song – the nearly eight-minute instrumental “La femme d’argent” – reached a plateau, drummer Louis Delorme excitedly waved both hands at ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Some 25 years ago, a French duo quietly released a debut album that sounded like it had drifted in from another, more elegant dimension. AIR’s “Moon Safari” wasn’t built for the ...

MUSICAL YOUTH: The Jean-Charles de Castelbajac show in Paris on Tuesday, held in a soaring Protestant church near the Louvre museum, was a magnet for musicians. Jean-Benoît Dunckel of French ...

The peculiarly French trick of the two-man pop-trance outfit Air is that everything about Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin's project seems extravagantly fake. They give the casual observer no ...

The French electornic duo Air (Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel-Barbier) are staging a comeback. The band is currently on the second wave of their Moon Safari 25th anniversary tour (the album ...