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...Dios' (#1 for 11). That would be enough, for anyone whose memory contained chips of Ford's silky stylings and Paul's amazing facility with a sound he invented and perfected. As he told Stephen K. Peeples in the 60-page booklet that comes with the 'Les Paul: The Legend and the Legacy' four-volume CD set (on the Gold Rush label): 'That big, fat, round, ballsy sound with the bright high-end is the Les Paul sound - nobody else has it. And if that's not enough, he was the original do-it-all recording mastermind: a producer-arranger...
...other person, Richard Farina, may have realized it too, but he died in a motorcycle accident in 1966, just as he was poised to become Dylan's great rival. In Positively 4th Street (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 328 pages; $25), David Hajdu adds an important chapter to the Dylan legend by recounting the professional and personal loves of these two men and the music that fueled...
...This week one of the twin pioneers of this pop renaissance releases an eagerly-awaited second album. Air's 10,000 Hz Legend is a sprawling baroque extravaganza. In 60 minutes of multifaceted music, it sparkles with unlikely references: Pink Floyd, cult sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick, Eric Satie, White Album-era Beatles, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and the Beach Boys are all in there somewhere. But there's also impeccably modern production and the latest computer technology. Air transcends its influences to create something dazzlingly unique. The duo from Versailles - a well-off suburb west of Paris...
...same could be said of Air's approach to music. 10,000 Hz Legend is a record that could never have been made in Britain or America. Although it occasionally nods politely in the direction of rock'n'roll, the album has clearly been produced by people for whom Claude Debussy will always remain more important than Chuck Berry...
...strength of 10,000 Hz Legend, you have to wish them well. By distilling our musical memories into something unmistakably - and compellingly - modern, Air has made the 21st century look a very attractive place to be. You'll never have heard anything remotely like it, but then it's not every day you come across what the French call a chef d'oeuvre...