9/21/2023 0 Comments Amelie film scoreTINDERSTICKS: Stuart Staples of Tindersticks sang on 2005’s Les Retrouvailles. THE ESSENTIAL PHILIP GLASS: Tiersen is often compared to ambient/minimalist composer Glass. THE STOOGES: Iggy Pop and cohorts floated Tiersen’s boat during his teenage years. AMELIE FILM SOUNDTRACK BY YANN TIERSEN JAPAN IMPORT CD NO OBI ramentaschen (8218) Est. 626 words Downloads: 46 Download Print The foreign film chosen for analysis was Amélie (2001) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Yet the influences on his creativity are predictably more eclectic, including a bike ride in a California forest when he was chased by a puma… If you like this, you might like… His latest album, Kerber, is his 11th and most dreamily electronic, and is named after a chapel on the island. Tiersen now composes at a former discotheque on Ushant (Ouessant), a small island off the Breton coast near Brest, where he was born in 1970. Later he only got into chanson in a roundabout way – he said he only listened to Jacques Brel after hearing Scott Walker’s version of Brel’s songs. Yann Tiersen plays at the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, on Tuesday, January 24, up who loves the film Amélie (known to the French and purists as Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain)? Double hands up who loves the movie’s cutesy, waltzy, accordeon and piano-led soundtrack? The popular film score was comprised of both new and previously released material by Breton composer and musician Yann Tiersen, whose emotionally-wrought melodies hark back to Chopin and Satie, but whose earliest musical roots are anything but sweetness and light.Īs a teenager – after eschewing the piano he had taken up aged four, the violin he learned from six and the classical training at musical academies he received in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne – punk subculture was his thing. I know lots of people on the island bought my album, but none of them told me." "Everybody is shy about it, so we just talk about everyday things like the weather or farming. "We don't talk about anything like that," says Tiersen with a laugh. Tiersens score was assembled from the composers earlier works. Each evocative track is accompanied by a specific map co-ordinate that points to its inspiration, although the composer's act of dedication to his environment isn't something the locals discuss. Quirky, romantic and very French, Amelie was a worldwide smash. She works in a café called Les Deux Moulins, where her boss Suzanne dreams of her past life in the circus, and co-worker Gina rebuffs the. Tiersen's ninth and newest studio album, EUSA, is a solo piano journey through the landscape and mood of Ushant, the tiny island community off the coast of Brittany that Tiersen and approximately 800 other people call home. She looks after her stewardess neighbour Philomenes cat when Philomenes away on a flight, and spies guiltily on her neighbour Dufayel, a man with brittle bones. "I grew up in the '80s, I like punk rock, so I'm not going to sit there and tell someone how I can add orange-ness to my strings." Digital Print is printable sheet music available anytime, anywhere. We had to talk about the orange-ness of music for one hour – I really have better things to do," says Tiersen. Translation: Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music. "I once had a director asking me if my music could be more orange. It was a productive partnership, but not every filmmaker Tiersen has subsequently encountered has been as easy to work with. Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet discovered Tiersen's work during the film's editing and while the pianist was able to write a selection of pieces for the film, Jeunet also went through his back catalogue to find extra material.
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