So what can the fans deep in the South-West look forward to? “I like the British audience a lot so I think I’ll come back here. I don’t know if I’ll succeed but I’d like to!” He describes Dust Lane as a “liberation” and explains that it’s given him the excitement to start on the next album: “I have lots of unreleased material which was planned for Dust Lane.
It’ll be used for effects and noisy textures. It’ll be like a ghost album which is never released but will be the base of the new album but even without using the original material. “I’d like to make an acoustic album but not using it until after treatment. Once this hectic tour is finished, Tiersen is planning a new album release. “I think it’s so, so good just to focus on the gig and have two hours which are relaxing in a way.” I have the best of both,” he says with an endearing lop-sided grin. Cambridge is tomorrow.”ĭespite the strain of it, the pleasure isn’t taken out of touring for Tiersen: “I usually spend two years at home and three years touring so it’s the extreme way of living and it’s great. With 48 gigs in three months, stretching from New York to Cologne in Germany, it’s no wonder that Tiersen is tired and a little confused. Fortunately, it’s the busy tour schedule draining him. Even with songs and lyrics I prefer to suggest things instead of saying or telling stories.”Īt this point he’s stretching and stifling a yawn not the interview boring him I hope. It’s something physical and cerebral.”įeeding the subconscious is a strong element of Tiersen’s work. And then just let the emotion and something more subconscious go through your mind and into your music. What about the dreams Tiersen’s songs create in his own mind? “The best way for me to write music is to think about nothing and to reach a kind of void. Luckily, this is exactly the effect Tiersen wants: “When the song is finished something is still alive in the listener’s ears.
My Tiersen oasis, for example, is listening to Comptine d’un autre été and being transported to owner of a coffee bar/bookstore in the backstreets of Berlin, married to a travelling pianist and doting mother to a pug dog called Mr. Tiersen’s music has a habit of sending the listener off into the stuff their dreams are made of. His eyes are darting and his hands are gesturing wildly but apparently his concentration span works in his favour “If you just focus on one inspiration it’s really bad. Tiersen drops the words “texture” and “layers” into the conversation a lot and I can’t help thinking that his thoughts are just as mixed and constant as his music. It’s perhaps his instinct that led to the formation of Dust Lane and the eclectic collaboration of instruments and sounds that it’s made of. “I’m the complete opposite of a composer in a way because I’m really instinctive,” he murmurs behind ring-clad hands. Fame clearly isn’t Tiersen’s motive but a move away from the image of the French composer who knows an accordion like the back of his hand, may be. Fast-forward to 2010 and Dust Lane could be the album release of Tiersen’s that anchors him in the indie pool of mainstream music. Tiersen made a name for himself in Europe long before the film but it wasn’t until the soundtrack’s release in the US and receiving the Platinum award by the Canadian Recording Industry Association that the rest of the world began to fall in love with his music. Maybe it’s rude but I don’t want them (Amélie requesters) at my gig.” The focus was more on the synthiest ones and also the more accordion ones which is kind of a shame.” When a musician is repeatedly referred to as ‘the Amélie guy’, leaving other work to go nearly unrecognised, and an audience requesting Amélie tracks at every show, it must get tedious. “The Amélie soundtrack was a collection of songs from the earlier albums. The use of musical textures and layers are similar but Dust Lane holds personal value something that was missing in the Amélie work.
“It’s not pretentious for me to say that because it’s the best one so far.” The album is a far stretch from the Amélie soundtrack that brought Tiersen into the mainstream limelight. “I’m most proud of Dust Lane,” he says with a shrug. Tiersen is as enthusiastic as his fans about his latest album, Dust Lane. Normal heart-beat restored and burning questions at the ready time to Q&A with my idol.
We’re tucked away in the Phoenix café in Exeter, Devon, pre-gig after an impromptu interview arrangement and despite my jitters and nerves, Tiersen’s nonchalant manner is having a calming effect on me.
#Yann tiersen amelie poster professional#
I have to remind myself to be professional and listen instead of staring stalkerishly at the man behind the gorgeous Amélie soundtrack. Yann Tiersen is sitting opposite me caressing a black coffee and is speaking with that sexy French slur I’ve only read about in Chick Lits.
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