Darkel album to be released this month...

The new Darkel album is due out the 18th of September, 2006.  Darkel is Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of the French space-rock/electronica duo Air.  For this project, JB sheds his Air band mate Nicolas Godin and strikes out on his own with Laurent Griffon on guitars and bass and Earl Harvin picking up the drumsticks for a couple of the album's songs.  Check out the Darkel myspace site for more tunes from the new album.

Air's 2004 release Talkie Walkie [shown below] is a fabulous record and the new offering from one half of the duo looks to be interesting and similar on some songs to the Air sound and a departure from the norm on other cuts such as At the End of the Sky, available for preview via the official Darkel site and with the spunky TV Destroy which is a bit more rockin' and rollin' than drum machine programmin' style of music Air fans have become accustomed to.

The Air myspace.com site has a blog news blurb about the Charlotte Gainsbourg album that the duo contributed to as well as the release info for the new Darkel album scheduled for this month.  The blurb also mentions that the finishing touches are being applied to songs for the next Air album scheduled currently for release in the Winter of 2007.  Michel Gondry's new movie "The Science of Sleep" that Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in is also mentioned in the blurb along with a link to the movie soundtrack's myspace page.

I can't wait for the new Air album but the Darkel release will quench the thirst for now.  The complete MP3 of the song At the End of the Sky and a video for it are available at the myspace.com Darkel site.