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...didn't worry about how people were going to react," Air's keyboard specialist Jean-Benoit Dunckel explains. (Air's other half is Nicolas Godin, who mainly plays guitar and bass.) "The idea was simply to do the most demented thing possible...
...piece of synth pop with overtones of Queen and no concessions to good taste. As throughout the album, the vocals are in a globalized English that is neither British nor American. "There are some words we just can't pronounce, so we can't use them in our lyrics," Dunckel explains. "That gives us a strange approach to the English language; we play with...
...Dunckel had visited Mindoro in 1930. Said he, with a characteristic nervous tic of the left eye: "It's like a saucer tilted toward the sea. High and difficult mountains shelter it. This is the dry season, but clouds generally overhang the mountains...
...miles by 50. It's also very close to Luzon." That was Mindoro's chief value and every man in Dunckel's force knew it. From the San José airfields, patrols could wing far over the South China Sea, harrying Jap shipping; Luzon could be softened for invasion and General MacArthur's return to Manila. Mindoro's fields would take the load off Admiral "Bull" Halsey's carrier airmen, who even then, acting as tactical air force for MacArthur, were smashing at the Japs' Philippine airdromes...
...damage. Out of the setting sun later that day came another strike. It was met by Corsairs and Wildcats, and Army P-38s flying from Leyte. This time some of the Japs got through, although seven were destroyed. Among the men wounded by bomb fragments was the boss, General Dunckel. He got himself bandaged up, said he saw no reason to rule himself out of the play...