Yann Tiersen: Tiny Desk Concert NPR ... buzzy, liltingly eccentric pop music is constructed from lots of sweet, intricate pieces. by Stephen Thompson French singer, multi-instrumentalist and film composer Yann Tiersen isn't massively well-known, but he did craft the score for the beloved ...
Living the Island Life Express from The Washington Post By Stephen M. Deusner Posted on May 24, 2012 Composer Yann Tiersen, front, creates and records his music in seclusion at his island home, but tours with a full backing band. Paris, San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin ? French composer Yann Tiersen...
Yann Tiersen's Live Je Ne Sais Quoi: Live Shot of Yann Tiersen at Emo's 5.18.12 Austin Chronicle (blog) As French electronic giants M83 bumped a sold-out audience at Stubb's, their countryman Yann Tiersen played to a considerably smaller gathering on East Riverside Drive at Emo's. Known primarily in the US for scoring Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 ...
NiteTalk: Yann Tiersen Skylines into Grand Central NBC 6 Miami (blog) He is the fine-minded Frenchman named Yann Tiersen and he and his six-piece band Skyline into Grand Central Wednesday night. If your LP Skyline were a color, what would it be? Blue, I guess, just because of the sky. But a dark blue, bordering on gray. Yann TiersenCreative Loafing Atlanta
Yann Tiersen and Piano Chat at Emo's East [Show Preview] Austinist Most of us know the name Yann Tiersen from the exquisite score the Frenchman provided for the 2001 film Amelie. Yet the seeds of that soundtrack stretch back six years previous, and Tiersen's musical life itself started a decade before that recognition ... YouTube du Jour: Yann TiersenOffBeat Magazine
Yann Tiersen at the Fonda Theatre Los Angeles Times French composer Yann Tiersen may have first caught your ear as part of the soundtrack to the supernaturally twee 2001 movie "Amélie," but his recordings removed from the silver screen are equally deserving of notice. His new album "Skyline" features a ... Beyond AmélieWillamette Week
Live Review: Yann Tiersen at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre (5/12) Consequence of Sound By Lainna Fader on May 14th, 2012 in Concert Reviews Though Yann Tiersen is perhaps best known in the US for his highly imaginative film scores?the 41-year-old French multi-instrumentalist was responsible for the whimsical piano- and accordian-based ...
Live Review: Yann Tiersen, Nouela (solo) at The Showbox at The Market SSG Music (blog) In bright green Converse shoes, the composer Yann Tiersen and his five-man team made their way onto the the Showbox at the Market's stage. The 41-year-old French musician is known most popularly for his work on the soundtracks for ?Goodbye Lenin!
Hot tickets: May 22 Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Yann Tiersen. 8 pm May 24. Variety Playhouse. $22.50; $20 in advance. TM. KC & the Sunshine Band, the Trammps. 8 pm May 25. Chastain Park Amphitheatre. $30.50-$45.50. LN. Great Lake Swimmers. 8:30 pm May 25. Variety Playhouse. $17.50; $15 in advance.
The Ting Tings, Yann Tiersen, Squarepusher And More NPR Along the way we hear a brash tale of love, loss and the Guggenheim from The Ting Tings; a mix of soul and dubstep from The Memorials, French artist Yann Tiersen's beautiful "Monuments," and a little bit of eerie blues-rock from one of Robin's latest ...
7 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: Prom Night, Rocky Hill, Yann Tiersen, Etc. Houston Press (blog) The third of Saturday's Cactus in-stores is French Amélie composer Yann Tiersen, who brings his Europop touring band to Fitzgerald's later that evening. This weekend's "Rock Without Shame" pick is easy: .38 Special, Blackberry Smoke and Folk Family ...
Yann Tiersen uses music as a process of exploration Straight.com By Alexander Varty, May 3, 2012 You don't need to know a lot about Yann Tiersen to enjoy his music?which is handy, because studying his lyrics won't reveal too much about the man. Based on the songs on his new album, Skyline, the Breton musician ...
Yann Tiersen at Metro | Concert preview Time Out Chicago With his romantic French compositions, Brittany native Yann Tiersen not only made the accordion cool, he added a sexy edge to Tautou's quirk. But cute can only last so long. So it was no surprise when Tiersen, who cites protopunks Suicide as an ... Samples, sound effects and guitarsMinnesota Daily
Tonight in Seattle: AgesandAges, Yann Tiersen, Black Moth Super Rainbow and more SSG Music (blog) The collective folk group AgesandAges has had quite the busy year writing new material for the next release via Knitting Factory Records and also recording a new cover each month. Their latest cover to be released is The Misfits' ?Attitude,? and SSG ...
Live music calendar Richmond Times Dispatch Yann Tiersen and Piano Chat , 8 pm Saturday, $25. The Dandy Warhols and 1776 , 7 pm Tuesday, $25. SAVANNAH JOE'S, 55 Irvington Road, Kilmarnock, 435-6000. Casper , 7 pm Friday. THE SOUTHERN, 103 S. First St., Charlottesville, (434) 977-5590.
The guide to the week's concerts The Independent Weekly Free/7 pm ?Karen A. Mann In the United States, Yann Tiersen is probably best known (when he's known at all) for providing the soundtrack to the acclaimed whimsical arthouse film Amélie. In a more forgiving world, however, he'd be known over here for ...
Start packing your car for the Winstock Country Music Festival Minnesota Daily (blog) Augusten Burroughs, who wrote "Running With Scissors," will talk about his self-help book at 7 tonight in the Coffman Union bookstore. mndailyae Yann Tiersen will play at First Avenue tonight. A&E talked to him about his sound experiments....
100 Years of Attitude Wall Street Journal Internationally known musicians, including young Russian pianist Denis Matsuev and Frenchman Yann Tiersen, whose experimental style has led him to unusual instruments like the typewriter and harpsichord, have been invited to perform at signature Jazz ...
Today in New Orleans: Second Line, Boogaloo and Dubstep NOLA Defender Yann Tiersen (House of Blues, 9:00 pm) Remember the theme from Amelie? Well someone wrote that, and he's more than just a Hollywood songwriter trying to make a buck. Yann Tiersen is a French musician who is both a composer and album artist.