Born: 23 / 6 / 1970
Location: France
Yann Pierre Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter.
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"Tiersen urgently saws his violin to such dizzying, deafening climaxes that plumes of smoke literally billow above him..."
"Ambient yet somehow unnerving melodies that have been absent in much of his previous work"
A milestone not only for Tiersen’s career, but for music as a whole.
On paper it sounds like an interesting idea, but in execution it’s more annoying than effective, and this track may have many listeners reaching for the skip button, which would be unfortunate, since the second half of that song is rather beautiful.
Overall, the album’s vocal and instrumental prowess, as well as its courageous ability to push generic boundaries, makes it a hugely successful work.