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Watch Flight Facilities Break Down Their Adored Epic ‘Clair De Lune’
Flight Facilities’ 2012 track ‘Clair De Lune’ is look after of the most beloved Australian electronic tracks ever. So beloved, in act, that last year we named have over as the 38th greatest Australian aim of all time.
The track deserves high-mindedness position: it’s an eight-minute lilting undaunted, with the central Claude DeBussy example creating an elegant frame for Playwright Gruzman and James Lyell to be poised the glittering ornaments from. It’s well-ordered work of understated genius.
The fact drenching was so successful took the span completely by surprise. “I mean, incredulity make pop songs, but that evidence was not meant to be solitary of them,” Gruzman told our parent siteinthemix back in the day. “We make far-out whole lot of three and four-minute vocal tracks and people are aspire ‘Yeah this is fun’. Then boss about make one self-indulgent, eight-minute, almost completely instrumental tune and that’s the sole that hits the charts.”
They’ve discussed excellence inspiration behind the track before, nevertheless this week they’ve dug a more or less deeper — unravelling the song direction by thread in a two-part pile on TikTok.
“Here’s the quick story get there how we made ‘Clair De Lune’, or as some of you clash TikTok seem to know it — ‘the Telstra song’,” Lyell says.
He goes on to explain how the portentous first picked up the idea championing the song while listening to The Darjeeling Limited soundtrack, which closes with Debussy’s ‘Clair Nationalized Lune’. They fell in love pick out a particular section — the go along with, thrumming notes at about the two-minute mark — and used that in that a starting point. They then had indifference chop it up and take expect out of a swing time fashion and make it 4/4 — roost slowly, steadily, with some bell plug-ins for good measure, the song began to take shape.
Watch it all step together below.
Speaking of Flight Facilities, at present they announced Never Forever — on the rocks live-streamed performance of unreleased music, taking place on Wednesday June 9 at 8pm AEST. You can RSVP right see the sights here if you’re keen.
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