I met AIR because someone invited me to one of their concerts. I had no idea what kind of music I would be listening to, but I ended up at the show. It was a very strange experience at first, because I wasn't expecting their take on tempo. Then I told myself that this music was perfectly suited for something very specific: reading aloud. I felt that way because their notion of tempo was common to both music and reading, with a sort of strength in the tempo, a calm intensity. That's what gave me the absurd idea of joining together music and the very fragile act of reading.

And I started my search.

These three stories are westerns. Linking them to music seemed fairly easy, especially with AIR's music, which has an epic dimension, a sense of spaciousness, of something far away. That's what suddenly made me realize that their music touches the very essence of the western.

In terms of the overall style, it was a bit of a leap, since AIR doesn't have a folk sound, but in terms of the spirit and character of the music, it seemed to me a very good match.