Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Jonathan Fitoussi

Mirages is an album of analogue synthesizer music by Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of Air, and the Paris composer Jonathan Fitoussi. It began in Studio Venezia, the working recording studio that the artist Xavier Veilhan built in the French Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Musicians were invited to play and record there for the whole length of the exhibition. Dunckel and Fitoussi took their Venice sessions back to Dunckel's studio in Paris and finished the album there. It became the second Studio Venezia record on The Vinyl Factory, after Joakim's The Studio Venezia Sessions, issued the year before.

The sound comes from instruments Dunckel had collected over several years. They include an ARP 2600, a PPG Wave, an EMS Synthi A, a Buchla, a Yamaha CS-60 and a Korg MS-20. The two musicians composed, played, produced and mixed the album together, and Louis Delorme plays drums on three tracks. Seven tracks are split four and three across the two sides, just under forty minutes in all. The Vinyl Factory describes the music as moving from the minimal to the cinematic. The title track opens side A at more than seven minutes, and Delorme's drums return on Oracle and Gamma, giving those pieces a steadier pulse. Acqua Alta, named after the high tides that flood Venice, keeps the city in view. Source and Syntesia are shorter pieces of under six minutes. Monolake closes the record with its longest track, close to eight minutes. The French writer Joseph Ghosn, who wrote the liner notes, heard in it "a singular floating and inventive pop music". Looking back on the album in 2020, Bandcamp Daily wrote that Fitoussi had combined these machines "to create extraterrestrial landscapes layered with delicate arpeggios". Fitoussi went on to use a similar set of Buchla, Moog, Synthi and Pro-One synthesizers on his 2020 album Plein Soleil. The cover is a work by Veilhan, and the album came out on The Vinyl Factory in May 2019, two years after the Venice sessions.

The Vinyl Factory pressed Mirages on 180-gram clear vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies, with etched runouts.