We knew about airport music thanks to Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978), an album by British conceptual musician Brian Eno. Piano and synthesizer loops intended to relax the traveler waiting for their flight and to stimulate their thinking.
The work is considered the founder of ambient, the most Zen movement of electronic music. However, we did not know that a terminal could be transformed into a concert space.
However, a demonstration was made on Wednesday July 17 at Paris – Charles-de-Gaulle airport, located in Roissy-en-France (Val-d’Oise), for the fiftieth anniversary of its inauguration, on March 8, 1974.
To celebrate this event which was to relieve traffic congestion at Orly and Le Bourget, the ADP Group (Aéroports de Paris) saw bigger than the London station of Saint-Pancras, including a piano generously abandoned by Elton John in 2016 after an impromptu performance. three minutes, has since been used by John Legend, Alicia Keys and Norah Jones, to the surprise of Eurostar users. Called “Terminal 1”, the evening aimed to simply transform the upper surface of the circular building designed by architect Paul Andreu (1938-2018) into the “roof of the world”. Since nine days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Paris – Charles-de-Gaulle will be the gateway.
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Who better than this French touch that the world envies us could symbolize the national genius in this place? A prestigious poster has been brought together around the two flagship groups that are the groups from Versailles, Air and Phoenix, with names that are perfect for the flight, complemented by veteran DJs from the French electronic scene: Etienne de Crécy – composer of the 1997 house music classic album Super Discount – and the duo Benjamin Diamond and Alan Braxe, who had their moment of glory in 1998 with the song « Music Sounds Better with You, » a hit from Stardust, the short -live group that also included Daft Punk’s
