Underused FC Challenge 2021.

DAY 4 : Celebrity with the same nationality/origin as yourself.

Tempelhof - Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen - La valse d'Amélie

Been listening to “Kerber” (2021), Yann Tiersen’s brand new album.

If you know him at all, it’s certainly because the French (film) composer wrote the soundtrack of the cult movie “Amelie”. (And because of the movie, Tiersen’s sound has become the music of Paris and its bohemian quarter Montmartre.)

With “Kerber”, he continues on the road he’s followed the last years: he showcases his piano virtuosity and blends the piano with electronic sounds (created in the recording studio annexed to his house!) and ambient sounds (recorded on the Breton island Ushant (“Ouessant” in French) where he lives with his wife, the singer Emilie Quinquis).

Every track is named after a location on his home island - Ar Maner Kozh, Ker al Loch, Poull Bojer etc. (As I said, Brittany has its own culture and language, very different from the French “standard”.)

At times, the music made me think of the album “async” of (film) composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

“All” (2019) is Tiersen’s most important record of the last 10 years… and the gentleman kindly signed it for me.

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