![]() ![]() Amélie received great critical acclaim and was a box-office success. In two weeks, Tiersen composed nineteen pieces for the film and also allowed the production to take anything they wanted from his other records. Jeunet bought all of Tiersen’s albums, and then contacted him to see if the Breton composer was interested in writing the film score for Amélie. French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet had something else in mind for the film score, but one day one of his production assistants put on a CD of Tiersen, and the director found it absolutely superb. Tiersen remained relatively unknown outside France until the release of his score for the acclaimed film Amélie (Original French title: Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain, English: The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain) in 2001. Tiersen also featured on The Divine Comedy’s single “Gin Soaked Boy” released on that same year, and on three tracks for Françoiz Breut’s second studio album Vingt à Trente Mille Jours (English: Twenty to Thirty Thousand Days), and on Têtes Raides’ Gratte-poil, both released in 2000. In 1999, Tiersen together with The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano released his first collaboration album, Tout est calme. During that period, he also recorded songs for the soundtrack of several films, including the award-winning and multi-nominated film The Dreamlife of Angels (French: La Vie rêvée des anges) (1998), André Téchiné’s Alice et Martin (1998), and Christine Carrière’s Qui plume la lune? (1999). Tiersen provided a new arrangement and played strings, vibraphone, bell, the mandolin, the electric guitar and bass guitar for the song “À ton étoile” by French rock band Noir Désir which was featured on their 1998 remix album One Trip/One Noise. Tiersen rose to domestic fame upon the release of his third studio album, Le Phare (The Lighthouse) in 1998. Tiersen usually plays most of the music instruments himself during both studio recording sessions and his live sets he has won theatrical appeal as a one-man show and was invited to play, among others, at the 1996 edition of the Avignon Festival, the oldest live arts festival in France. The title track, sung by French solo singer Claire Pichet, was used the following year for the Palme d’Or nominated French drama film The Dreamlife of Angels. In April 1996, one year later, he released Rue des cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with a toy piano, a harpsichord, a violin, a piano accordion, and a mandolin. Tiersen’s debut album, La Valse des monstres, limited to 1,000 copies, was first released in June 1995 by independent record label Sine Terra Firma, and then reissued by Nancy-based record label Ici d’ailleurs in 1998 as the second album of its catalogue. By the end of the summer, Tiersen had recorded over forty tracks, which would most be used later on for his first two albums. During the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment with an electric guitar, a violin, and a piano accordion, recording music on his own. A few years later, when his band parted, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording music on his own with a synthesiser, a sampler, and a drum machine.īefore releasing film scores under his own name, Tiersen recorded background music for a number of plays and short films. That gave him the opportunity to see acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. Tiersen was living in Rennes back then, home to the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, which is held annually in December. When he was 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. In the early 1980s, he was influenced as a teenager by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division. He started learning to play the piano at the age of four, the violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne-sur-Mer. Tiersen was born on June 23, 1970, in Brest, in the department of Finistère, part of Brittany in northwestern France, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. Yann Tiersen (born June 23, 1970) is a French-Breton musician and composer, whose musical career is divided among studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting, incorporating a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesizers, and the violin, but also instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion or even typewriter. ![]()
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