Yann Tiersen

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Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer.

His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks.

His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter. Tiersen is often mistaken for a composer of soundtracks, himself saying "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background", but his real focus is on touring and studio albums which just happen to often be suitable for film.

His most famous soundtrack for the film Amélie was primarily made up of tracks taken from his first three studio albums.

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Biography and career

Tiersen was born in Brest, 1970, in the Department of Finistère, part of Brittany, France, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. He started learning to play the piano at the age of four, the violin at the age of six, and received classical education at several academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was influenced as a youth by punk culture and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division in the early 1980s. He quit his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band when he was 13. Tiersen was living in Rennes long before the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, which takes place annually in December. He had the opportunity to see acts such as Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. Tiersen's band broke up a few years ago, he bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording songs on his own with a synthesiser and a drum machine.

Tiersen performed background music for a number of plays and short films before releasing film scores under his own name. Tiersen remained in his apartment with an electric guitar, a violin, and a piano accordion, recording music on his own during the summer of 1993; he was guided by what he describes as "a musical anarchic vision." Tiersen had recorded over forty songs by the end of the summer, which would most likely be used later on for his first two albums. La Valse des monstres, Tiersen's debut album, 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 the company's catalogue. The 17-track-album was inspired by and written for Tod Browning's 1932 theatrical version of Freaks and Yukio Mishima's 1955 version of Noh play The Damask Drum. Rue des cascades, a series of short pieces recorded with a toy piano, a harpsichord, a piano accordion, and a mandolin, was released in April 1996, one year later. When it was released on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amélie five years later, 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. Tiersen appears on all of the musical instruments himself during both recording sessions and live sets; he has also appeared at the 1996 Avignon Festival, France's oldest live arts festival, among other things.

Tiersen's rise to international prominence after the debut of his third studio album, Le Phare (The Lighthouse), in 1998. The album was released in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ushant (Breton: Enez Eusa, French: Ouessant), at the end of the English Channel, marking the most north-western point of territorial France. Tiersen spent two months in a rented house. At night, he'd be able to observe the Phare du Creach, one of the world's most advanced lighthouses, and was captivated by the stunning scenery that would be repeated every night. The Le Phare, which featured Claire Pichet, French singer and songwriter Dominique A., and Belgian drummer and percussionist Sacha Toorop, sold over 160,000 copies, establishing Tiersen's reputation as one of the country's most innovative artists and launching a series of hit albums. "La Dispute," "La Noyée," and "Sur le fil") were among three songs from this album's 2001 soundtrack Amélie's collection, but "L'Homme aux bras ballants," written and composed by Dominique A, was also included on Laurent Gorgiard's 1997 short animation film of the same name. Dominique A's single "Monochrome," which was performed live on radio, propelled the album to the top of the charts. Le Phare was his first album to debut in the French Albums Chart at number 50.

Tiersen produced a new setup and performed strings, vibraphone, alarm, the mandolin, the electric guitar, and bass guitar for the French rock band Noir Désir's song "Ton étoile," which was included on their 1998 remix album One Trip/One Noise. He recorded songs for a number of films, including the award-winning and multi-nominated film The Dreamlife of Angels (1998), André Téchiné's Alice et Martin (1998) and Christine Carrière's Qui plume la lune. (1999) apologies (1998). In 1998, Tiersen released Bästard - Yann Tiersen, a three-track-play produced in association with French experimental rock band Bästard, and his first live album, Black Session: Yann Tiersen. On the second day of the Rencontres Trans Musicales in Rennes, for the C'est Lenoir French broadcast show on the public radio station France Inter, the live album was recorded on December 2, 1998. The album features composer and songwriter Neil Hannon, the French rock band Noir Désir, singer and illustrator Françoiz Breut, and French rock band The Married Monk, as well as French folk rock band Quatu à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, writer and illustrator, Mathieu Boogaerts, composer and composer Florian Lebruman, composer and illustrator Jean-Luc Millot, and composer Edith Bégout The album was produced by France International, mastered by Radio France, and was released in CD form one year later, on November 2nd, 1999.

Tiersen, a pioneer of the Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano formed his first collaboration album, Tout est calme, in 1999. On the French Albums Chart, the 26 minutes, ten tracks mini album debuted at number 45. Tiersen performed on "Les Grandes marées," the album's first single, and Têtes Raides' Gratte-poil appeared on three tracks for Françoisz Breut's second studio album Vingt à Trente Mille Jours (English: Twenty to Thirty Thousand Days) back in 2000.

Prior to being recognised outside of France, Tiersen's score for the acclaimed film Amélie Poulain, (Original French title: Amélie Poulain) was unveiled in 2001. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the French film director, had something else in mind for the film score, but one day one of his production assistants bought a CD of Tiersen, and the director was raving about it. Jeunet purchased all of Tiersen's albums and then called him to see if the Breton composer was interested in writing the film score for Amélie. Tiersen produced nineteen pieces for the film in two weeks, as well as allowing the audience to take anything they wanted from his other works. Amélie received acclaim for her work as a box-office darling, despite its apparent lack of a box-office triumph. The film went on to win the Best Film Award at the European Film Awards, four César Awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay, two BAFTA Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. The soundtrack was a mashup of recent and previously published work, and Tiersen was also the recipient of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film and the World Soundtrack Academy award. The soundtrack album debuted in several countries, including the number one on the French Albums Chart.

Tiersen was also working on his fifth studio album L'Absente when he was composing the film score for Amélie. The album was characterized by many contributions, including 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, viola player Bertrand Lambert, violinist Yann Bisquay and Sophie Naboulay, Natacha Régnier, Natacha Régnier, and saxophonist Grégoire Simon, Têtes Raiders, Matthew Sens, and Sacha Toorop. The album, which was released on June 5, 2001 through EMI France, was preceded by two promotional singles, "A quai" and "Bagatelle," respectively. "Roma Amor" and "Holidays," Tiersen's third studio album, is available on R/O/C/K/Y.

He was married to Belgian actress Natacha Régnier, co-star of The Dreamlife of Angels at the time. Régnier began as a guitarist and Tiersen produced three songs for her, including his interpretation of Georges Brassens' "Le Parapluie," a song on the tribute album Les Oiseaux de passage, which was released in 2001. They toured in France and abroad last year during the same year. They have a daughter, Lise, who was born in 2002, but Tiersen and Régnier have since divorced. Tiersen's music also took his music around the world, performing with a complete orchestra and an amplified string quartet in this period. Tiersen performed live at the Cité de la Musique in Paris from 15 to 17. Tiersen's second live album C'était ici (It Was Here), which was released by EMI France on September 30, 2002, was part of three concerts.

Tiersen's talents as a composer of film scores were highly sought after, and the soundtrack for Amélie was soon followed by the film score for Good Bye, Lenin, a 2003 German Tragicomedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker. The film was both a commercial and a critical success, receiving several awards including the César Award for Outstanding Film at the European Film Awards, Best Foreign Language Film at the London Film Critics' Circle, and Best Foreign Language Film at the European Film Academy in 2010. Tiersen was the recipient of the German Film Awards for Outstanding Music. Tiersen and Stuart A. threw her on November 15, 2003, just over a year ago. The lead singer of indie band Tindersticks, actor and singer Jane Birkin, actor and guitarist Christophe Miossec, and Dominique Abel have all released three titres inédits au profit de la FIDH (3 New Tracks for the Benefit of FIDH), a three-track CD that was part of the On Aime, On Aide benefit collection for raising funds for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

Tiersen's list of collaborators continued to expand album after album, and in October 2004, he introduced Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright, a collaboration album with American singer-songwriter Shannon Wright, and the same year, he appears on The Divine Comedy's album Absent Friends. Tiersen's fifth studio album, Les Retrouvailles, was released in 2005. The album features many collaborators, including Orchestre National de Paris, singers Elizabeth Fraser, Jane Birkin, Stuart A. Staples, Dominique A. and Miossec, France. String players Jean-François Assy, Frederic Dessus, Guillaume Fontana, Bertrand Causse, Anne Caussse, Armelle Legoff, flute player Elliott, drummer Ludovic Morillon, and ondes Martenot player Christine Ott continue to perform. Les Retrouvailles also features a DVD short film entitled La Traversée, directed by Aurélie du Boys, which chronicles the album's production in Ushant and includes an animated video for the non-album track "Le Train" and live versions of a handful of songs. "Kala," Elizabeth Fraser's sung on the album, was released on the album, and Tiersen performed piano on Staples' debut album, Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04. The multi-instrumental ensemble was redesigned for 2006 and on tour, which was released together with a DVD directed by Aurélie du Boys about the tour. He recorded two singles, "La Mancha" and "La Rade," and appeared on The Endless Rise of the Sun, Katel's third studio album, as well as 13m2 by David Delabrosse.

Tiersen produced the background music for Tabarly, a 2008 documentary film by Pierre Marcel about the French sailor, two-time champion of the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, and father of French yachting Éric Tabarly, following a five-year absence as a composer of film scores. The documentary was released in June 2008, just ten years after Tabarly's death. Éric Tabarly was lost in the Irish Sea on the night of 12-13 June 1998 when he was struck by a gaff of his Pen Duick while sailing from Wales to the Fife Regatta in Scotland. A French fishing trawler recovered his body five weeks later off the coast of Ireland. The film, which is narrated by Tabarly himself, follows his sporting career to his last meal in Ushant. Tiersen contributed to Christine Ott's debut solo album Solitude Nomade, as well as Miossec's seventh studio album Finistériens, before the decade.

Dust Lane, Tiersen's sixth studio album, was released in October 2010. The album was two years in the making and was mainly recorded in Ushant, France. In the Philippines, more parts had been recorded. The album is preoccupied with mortality; during the recording sessions, Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend. Tiersen's songs began as simple song based songs, with Tiersen playing acoustic guitar, mandolin, and bouzouki. New layers were added to the recordings, creating a more complex sound. To produce more textures, a variety of vintage synthesisers and electric guitars were added. Mute Records in Europe and ANTI- Records in the United States have released the album. In October 2010, the record was set in a tour that began in New York City, beginning in October 2010. The debut of the vinyl EP PALESTINE and the single for "Ashes" preceded Dust Lane. Tiersen contributed to the tribute album to cross-genre experimental music band Coil The Dark Age of Love by This Immortal Coil, a one-off tribute group, and Li(f)e, the fourth solo studio album by hip-hop artist Sage Francis, published in 2010.

Skyline, his seventh studio album, was released in October 2011. The nine-track album, which is a sequel to Dust Lane, was recorded at Tiersen's home on the island of Ushant in the south-western part of the English Channel, with further performances appearing in Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, and Nashville. It was then mixed by Leeds entrepreneur Ken Thomas and mastered by Ray Staff in London. "Monuments" and "I'm Gonna Live Anyhow" were two of the album's singles. Tiersen with Lionel Laquerriere, and Thomas Poli presented his team's venture, Elektronische Staubband, at the La Route du Rock music festival in Saint-Malo on February 18, 2012. With the first three pieces of the set list taken from Dust Lane and the remaining five from Skyline, it was about an hour of krautrock, electrostatic, and experimental music involving a dozen of synthesizers and analog keyboards. Tiersen was also selected by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to appear at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England, in March 2012. On April 17, 2012, Skyline was announced in North America through ANTI- Records, and the Skyline Tour was followed by a skyline tour in the United States, Canada, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, France, Slovak Republic, Austria, Finland, and the United Kingdom, with dates in the United States, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, France, Slovak Republic, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

Tiersen married Emilie Quinquis in Ushant, Brittany, on August 3rd. Quinquis confirmed that she and Tiersen were married on July 31, 2016. They have a son who has been born on April 6, 2017.

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