For lovers of ground-breaking composition work
A last-minute opportunity for lovers of the better ground-breaking composition work! Yann Tiersen is coming to present his latest album ‘∞’ (read: Infinity) on Sunday 26 October. Tiersen recorded his 8th studio album in various locations (more specifically: islands) like the Faeroes, Reykjavik and Ouessant - his island home, off the coast of Bretagne.
Yann Tiersen became instantly famous from the soundtrack he created for ‘Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain’. Tiersen also wrote the score for ‘Goodbye, Lenin!’. But he's much more than purely a soundtrack-composer, he's a multi-instrumentalist, a true songwriter, and an avant-garde musician. Since 1995, Tiersen has been making albums that consistently receive good reviews. To do that, he works with a whole series of classy musicians including Lisa Germano, Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Jane Birkin, Noir Désir, Stuart A. Staples (Tindersticks), Efterklang, Peter Broderick etc. On his latest release, he's the one personally responsible for a whole heap of gear: toy instruments, violin, analogue synthesizers, tape effects, harmonium, ...