Yann Tiersen is in his home on Ushant, a small island off the westernmost point of France, when we talk. The Breton musician and composer has been prepping for his mini-tour of Ireland by engaging in ...

One of the reasons that the movie Amelie was so engaging (besides the beguiling performance of Audrey Tatou) was the soundtrack composed by Yann Tiersen. His offering was a compelling mixture of ...

Creatively frustrated by his association with the Amélie soundtrack and yearning to perform with no environmental impact, the French musician and his wife took to the sea In 2014 Yann Tiersen – the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. His latest album, Skyline—out last fall in Europe, but released just last month in ...

THE Breton sailors’ shirts were out in some force to welcome the arrival, by bicycle apparently, of Yann Tiersen, the composer of the soundtrack to Amelie who holds to Brittany being a distinct entity ...

Even though 15 years after the fact he’s still closely associated with scoring Amélie, Yann Tiersen admits he doesn’t have much of an affinity for film soundtracks. Music, he reasons, has an emotional ...

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 ...