City Reading is a 2003 album by the French band Air in collaboration with the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages...

. In this album, Baricco narrates some passages from his novel City with Air's music in the background. The impetus for the album was in 2001, when Air performed background music to a live theater reading of City at the request of Baricco. The following month, they recorded three excerpts from his book (Bird (track 1), La Puttana Di Closingtown (tracks 2-10) and Caccia All'Uomo (tracks 11-19)). The album was mixed by Radiohead

Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...

 producer Nigel Godrich

Nigel Godrich

Nigel Godrich, , is a recording engineer, record producer and musician. He is best known for his work with the English rock band Radiohead and is sometimes referred to as the "sixth member" of the band...

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Track listing

All lyrics are written by Alessandro Baricco, all music is composed by Jean-Benoît Dunckel

Jean-Benoît Dunckel

Jean-Benoît Dunckel, , is a musician best known for being in the electronica duo Air....

 and Nicolas Godin.

1. "Bird"
2. "Prologo per la puttana di Closingtown"
3. "Se vuoi capire la loro storia"
4. "Pat Cobhan ride"
5. "Fanny scivola con le labbra"
6. "Pat Cobhan alza gli occhi"
7. "Young"
8. "'Affanculo"
9. "Quell'uomo bara, dice"
10. "Finale"
11. "Prologo"
12. "Il primo giorno"
13. "Il secondo giorno"
14. "Il terzo giorno"
15. "L'urlo"
16. "Mondo sparito"
17. "Il quarto giorno"
18. "Macchie di sangue"
19. "Musica"