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| Born | Yann Pierre Tiersen (1970-06-23)23 June 1970 (age 55) Brest, Brittany, France |
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Yann Pierre Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer fromBrittany.[1][2] His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as themelodica,xylophone,toy piano,harpsichord,piano accordion, and even atypewriter.
Tiersen is often mistaken for a soundtrack composer; he himself states that "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background,"[3] but his real focus is on touring and recording studio albums, which are often used for film soundtracks. Tracks taken from his first three studio albums were used for the soundtrack of the 2001 French filmAmélie.[4]
Tiersen was born in 1970 inBrest, in the department ofFinistère, part ofBrittany in northwestern France, into a French family ofBelgian andNorwegian origins.[5] He started learning to play the piano at the age of four, the violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those inRennes,Nantes, andBoulogne-sur-Mer.[6] In the early 1980s, he was influenced as a teenager by thepunk subculture, and bands likeThe Stooges andJoy Division.[7] When he was 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. Tiersen was living inRennes back then, home to the three-day music festivalRencontres Trans Musicales, which is held annually in December. That gave him the opportunity to see acts likeNirvana,Einstürzende Neubauten,Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,The Cramps,Television, andSuicide. A few years later, when his band parted, Tiersen bought a cheapmixing desk, an8-trackreel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording music on his own with a synthesiser, asampler, and adrum machine.[8]
Let's live in an enormous world of sound we can use randomly, with no rules at all. Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct — the same way punk did.
Before releasingfilm scores under his own name, Tiersen recorded background music for a number of plays and short films. During the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment with an electric guitar, a violin and apiano accordion, recording music on his own; he was guided by what he calls "a musical anarchic vision". By the end of the summer, Tiersen had recorded over forty tracks, which would most be used later on for his first two albums. Tiersen's debut album,La Valse des monstres, limited to 1,000 copies, was first released in June 1995 byindependent record label Sine Terra Firma, and then reissued byNancy-based record labelIci d'ailleurs in 1998 as the second album of its catalogue.[9] The 17-track-album was inspired by and written for the theatrical adaptations ofTod Browning's 1932 cult classicFreaks, andYukio Mishima's 1955 version ofNoh playThe Damask Drum.[10] In April 1996, one year later, he releasedRue des cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with atoy piano, aharpsichord, a violin, apiano accordion, and amandolin.[11] The title track, sung by French solo singerClaire Pichet, was used the following year for thePalme d'Or nominatedFrenchdrama filmThe Dreamlife of Angels,[12] and several tracks received greater exposure when they were featured on theJean-Pierre Jeunet's filmAmélie, five years later.[8] Tiersen usually plays most of the music instruments himself during both studio recording sessions and his live sets; he has won theatrical appeal as a one-man show and was invited to play, among others, at the 1996 edition of theAvignon Festival, the oldest live arts festival in France.[13]
I was amazed with the way the lighthouse rays revealed some hidden details of the land, how we can rediscover something we have in front of us everyday, only thanks to a light pointing at it.
Tiersen rose to domestic fame upon the release of his third studio album,Le Phare (The Lighthouse) in 1998. The album was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle ofUshant (Breton:Enez Eusa, French:Ouessant) at the end of theEnglish Channel which marks the most north-western point of territorial France. Tiersen spent two months there, living in a rented house. At night-time, he would watch thePhare du Creach, one of the most powerful lighthouses in the world, and was fascinated by the stunning scenery repeated every night.Le Phare, which featuredClaire Pichet, French singer and songwriterDominique A, and Belgian drummer and percussionist Sacha Toorop,[14] sold over 160,000 copies, confirming Tiersen's status as one of the most innovative artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums.[8] Three songs from this album, "La Dispute", "La Noyée" and "Sur le fil" were later featured on the 2001 soundtrackAmélie, while "L'Homme aux bras ballants", written and composed byDominique A, was also featured on Laurent Gorgiard's 1997 short animation soundtrack of the same name. Its single "Monochrome", sung byDominique A, was a radio hit and propelled the album into the charts.Le Phare was his first album to climb to number 50 in theFrench Albums Chart.[15]
During that period, Tiersen provided a new arrangement and playedstrings,vibraphone,bell, the mandolin, the electric guitar and bass guitar for the song "À ton étoile" by French rock bandNoir Désir which was featured on their 1998remix albumOne Trip/One Noise[citation needed]. He recorded songs for the soundtrack of several films, including the award-winning and multi-nominated filmThe Dreamlife of Angels (French:La Vie rêvée des anges) (1998),[12][16]André Téchiné'sAlice et Martin (1998) and Christine Carrière'sQui plume la lune? (1999). Tiersen also recordedBästard ~ Yann Tiersen, a three-track-extended-play released in 1998 in collaboration with Frenchelectronic rock band Bästard, and his first live album,Black Session: Yann Tiersen. The live album was recorded on 2 December 1998 as he played the opening act of theRencontres Trans Musicales in the Salle Serreau at theThéâtre National de Bretagne inRennes, for theC'est Lenoir French broadcast show on the public radio stationFrance Inter. The album features the chamber pop groupThe Divine Comedy fronted by Northern Irish singer and songwriterNeil Hannon, the French rock bandNoir Désir with singer and songwriterBertrand Cantat, singer and illustratorFrançoiz Breut, French rock band The Married Monk (Christian Quermalet, Philippe Lebruman, Etienne Jaumet, Nicolas Courret), French folk rock groupLes Têtes Raides (Christian Olivier, Grègoire Simon, Pascal Olivier, Anne-Gaëlle Bisquay, Serge Bégout, Jean-Luc Millot, and Edith Bégou), thestring quartet Quatuor à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, and authorMathieu Boogaerts, as well as his usual collaborators and friends, Claire Pichet and Dominique A. The album was recorded by France International, mastered byRadio France, and released in CD format one year later on 2 November 1999.[citation needed]
In 1999, Tiersen together with The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano released his first collaboration album,Tout est calme. The 26 minutes, 10 tracks mini album peaked at number 45 on the French Albums Chart.[15] The album produced one single, "Les Grandes marées", and Tiersen also featured on The Divine Comedy's single "Gin Soaked Boy" released on that same year, on three tracks for Françoiz Breut's second studio albumVingt à Trente Mille Jours (English: Twenty to Thirty Thousand Days), and on Têtes Raides'Gratte-poil, both released in 2000.
The hard part was making a selection, because all his tracks worked with the film's images!
Tiersen remained relatively unknown outside France until the release of hisscore for the acclaimed filmAmélie (Original French title:Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, English:The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain) in 2001. French film directorJean-Pierre Jeunet had something else in mind for the film score, but one day one of his production assistants put on a CD of Tiersen, and the director found it absolutely superb. Jeunet bought all of Tiersen's albums, and then contacted him to see if theBreton composer was interested in writing the film score forAmélie. In two weeks, Tiersen composed nineteen pieces for the film and also allowed the production to take anything they wanted from his other records.[17]Amélie received great critical acclaim and was a box-office success. The film went on to win the Best Film award at theEuropean Film Awards, fourCésar Awards, includingBest Film andBest Director, twoBAFTA Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for fiveAcademy Awards. The soundtrack was a mixture of both new and previously released material, and Tiersen was also the recipient of theCésar Award forBest Music Written for a Film, and of theWorld Soundtrack Academy award. The soundtrack album charted in many countries, including the number one position on theFrench Albums Chart.[2][18]
While he was writing the film score forAmélie, Tiersen was also preparing his fifth studio albumL'Absente.[2] The album was characterized by several contributions including 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, viola player Bertrand Lambert, violinists Yann Bisquay and Sophie Naboulay,Natacha Régnier, and saxophonist Grégoire Simon, and long-time collaborators Dominique A,Christine Ott,Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon, Têtes Raides, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, and Sacha Toorop.[19] The album, which was released on 5 June 2001 throughEMI France, was preceded by two promotional singles for "A quai" and "Bagatelle" respectively. Tiersen provided strings and vibraphone to two tracks, "Roma Amor" and "Holidays", featured onR/O/C/K/Y, the third studio album by The Married Monk.
At this time he was married to Belgian actressNatacha Régnier, co-star ofThe Dreamlife of Angels. Régnier became a singer and Tiersen wrote three songs for her including his arrangement ofGeorges Brassens' "Le Parapluie", a song featured on the tribute albumLes Oiseaux de passage, released in 2001. That same year they toured in France and abroad. They have a daughter, Lise, born in 2002, but Tiersen and Régnier have since divorced.[20] In this period, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet.[8] From 15 to 17 February 2002, Tiersen with many of the collaborators who participated in the recording sessions forL'Absente plus Claire Pichet, violinists Nicolas Stevens and Renaud Lhoest, bassist Jean-François Assy, viola player Olivier Tilkin, anduilleann pipes,bagpipes, andlow whistle player Ronan Le Bars, performed live at theCité de la Musique (City of Music) in Paris. Part of these three concerts went on to form Tiersen's second live albumC'était ici (It Was Here), which was released through EMI France on 30 September 2002.[21]
Tiersen's skills as a composer of film scores were much in demand, and the soundtrack forAmélie was soon followed by thefilm score forGood Bye, Lenin!, a 2003 GermanTragicomedy film directed byWolfgang Becker.[8] The film was both a commercial and a critical success and won several awards including theCésar Award for Best Film from the European Union, Best Film at theEuropean Film Awards, theGerman Film Awards for Outstanding Film, Best European Film at theGoya Awards, Best Foreign Language Film for theLondon Film Critics' Circle, and it was also listed in theEmpire magazine 2010's list of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema".[22] Tiersen was the recipient of the German Film Awards for Outstanding Music. On 15 November 2003, Tiersen withStuart A. Staples, the lead singer of indie bandTindersticks, actress and singerJane Birkin, singer and songwriterChristophe Miossec, and Dominique A released3 titres inédits au profit de la FIDH (3 New Tracks for the Benefit of FIDH), a three-track CD that was part of theOn Aime, On Aide benefit collection for raising funds for theInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).[23]
Tiersen's list of collaborators continued to grow album after album and in October 2004 he releasedYann Tiersen & Shannon Wright, a collaboration album with American singer-songwriterShannon Wright, and, in the same year, he is featured onThe Divine Comedy's albumAbsent Friends. In 2005, Tiersen released his fifth studio albumLes Retrouvailles. The album features several collaborators including the Orchestre National de Paris, singers Elizabeth Fraser, Jane Birkin, Stuart A. Staples, Dominique A, and Miossec, strings players Jean-François Assy, Frederic Dessus, Guillaume Fontanarosa, Bertrand Causse, Anne Causse Biragnet, Armelle Legoff, Frédéric Haffner, flute player Elliott, drummer Ludovic Morillon, andondes Martenot playerChristine Ott.[24]Les Retrouvailles also includes a DVD short film entitledLa Traversée, directed by Aurélie du Boys, which documents the making of the album in Ushant, and incorporates an animated video for the non-album track "Le Train" and live versions of a handful of songs. The album produced a single, "Kala", sung by Elizabeth Fraser, and Tiersen also played piano on Staples' solo debut album,Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04. The subsequent world tour of 2006 replaced the multi-instrumental ensemble with electric guitars and an ondes Martenot, and produced his third live album,On Tour, which was released together with a DVD, directed by Aurélie du Boys, about the tour, in November 2006.[25] In 2006, he also released two singles, "La Mancha" and "La Rade", and he was featured onThe Endless Rise of the Sun, the third studio album by electronic group Smooth,Raides à la ville extended play by Katel, and13m2 by David Delabrosse.
After a five-year absence as a composer of film scores, Tiersen provided thebackground music forTabarly,[26] a 2008 documentary film by Pierre Marcel about the French sailor, two-time champion of theSingle-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, and father of French yachtingÉric Tabarly. The documentary was released in June 2008, exactly ten years after Tabarly's death. Éric Tabarly was lost on the night of 12–13 June 1998 in theIrish Sea when he was struck by agaff of hisPen Duick during heavy swell and knocked overboard from his yacht near Wales while on his way to theFifeRegatta in Scotland. His body was recovered five weeks later off the coast of Ireland by a Frenchfishing trawler. The documentary, narrated by Tabarly himself, traces his sporting career until his last meal in Ushant.[8] Before the end of the decade, Tiersen also contributed toChristine Ott's debut solo albumSolitude Nomade, and to Miossec's seventh studio albumFinistériens.
The name Dust Lane partly came from the image of the dirt road going into Gaza.
![A photo showing Elektronische Staubband [Lionel Laquerriere (on the left), and Yann Tiersen and Thomas Poli (on the right)] live in concert at Lazzaretto of Ancona, Italy, on 21 July 2011.](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aYann_Tiersen_in_concert%2c_2011.jpg)
October 2010 saw the release of Tiersen's sixth studio album titledDust Lane. The album was two years in the making and was largely recorded inUshant, France. Further parts were recorded in the Philippines. The album is preoccupied with mortality; during the recording sessions Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend. The recordings started out as simple song based tracks with Tiersen playing acoustic guitar,mandolin andbouzouki. New layers were added to the recordings creating a more complex sound. Then an array of vintage synthesisers and electric guitars were added to create further textures.[27][28] The album was released byMute Records in Europe andANTI- Records in the US.[29][30][31] The record was promoted in a tour beginning in October 2010, starting in New York City.Dust Lane was preceded by the release of the vinyl EPPALESTINE and by the single for "Ashes". In 2010, Tiersen also contributed to the tribute album to cross-genre, experimental music groupCoilThe Dark Age of Love by This Immortal Coil, a one-off tribute formation, and toLi(f)e, the fourth solo studio album by hip-hop artistSage Francis.
October 2011 saw the European release of his seventh studio album,Skyline. The nine-track album, a follow on from hisDust Lane, was once again recorded at Tiersen's home on the island of Ushant in the south-western end of theEnglish Channel, with further parts recorded in Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, andNashville. It was subsequently mixed by producer Ken Thomas inLeeds, and mastered byRay Staff in London.[8][32] The album produced the singles for "Monuments" and "I'm Gonna Live Anyhow". On 18 February 2012, Tiersen with Lionel Laquerriere, and Thomas Poli, presented his side project, Elektronische Staubband, atLa Route du Rock music festival inSaint-Malo. It was about an hour ofkrautrock,electronic, andexperimental music involving a dozen of synthesizers andanalog keyboards with the first three pieces of the set list taken fromDust Lane and the remaining five fromSkyline.[33] Tiersen was also chosen byJeff Mangum ofNeutral Milk Hotel to perform at theAll Tomorrow's Parties festival in March 2012 inMinehead, England.[34]Skyline was released in North America via ANTI- Records on 17 April 2012, and it was followed by theSkyline Tour with dates in the United States, Canada, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, France, Slovak Republic, Austria, Finland and the United Kingdom.
On 3 August 2016, it was announced that Tiersen married Emilie Quinquis in Ushant, Brittany.[35] Quinquis stated that she and Tiersen were married on 31 July 2016.[36] On 6 April 2017 the couple had a son.[37][38][39][40]
[There is] no frontier between classical music and popular music, you are free to work with whatever you want. For me it’s natural to use lots of different instruments and textures and sounds and noises because life is like that.
I didn’t know Frenchmusette music at all. Even people likeJacques Brel — I discovered Brel throughScott Walker. My parents listened to Brel, of course, but when you’re a teenager you’re not interested. So it was only when I heard Scott Walker's versions that I thought "this is fucking good", you know. The only French singer I listened to wasSerge Gainsbourg.
Tiersen's music is influenced by the classical training he received as a child, by American and Britishpunk subculture, and by the music he used to listen to as a teenager. His musical style is deceptively easy to recognize but difficult to define. It varies greatly from one album to another and with time. His melancholic music and composing techniques mix classical andfolk music elements with pop and rock ones. His delicate but deeply emotional style has been linked toFrédéric Chopin and the other great masters ofRomantic music, and also toErik Satie, the colourful figure of the early 20th century Parisianavant-garde whose work was a precursor to later artistic movements such asminimalism,repetitive music, and theTheatre of the Absurd.[42] Tiersen is also compared to one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, the Americanminimalism, classical–contemporary classical, andambient music composerPhilip Glass,[43][44] and to British minimalist music composer, pianist,librettist andmusicologistMichael Nyman, known for the many filmscores he wrote during his lengthy career and who is the reason for Tiersen to be often called the Gallic Michael Nyman.[13]
I couldn’t play a brass instrument — I tried but I was really bad at it — I couldn’t play the flute, but the piano accordion was a keyboard so it was easy for me.
Tiersen started playing the piano and the violin at a young age.[6] In 1983, at the age of thirteen, he broke his violin and bought an electric guitar. Tiersen only returned to his beginnings instrument years later, after searching for string sounds tosample.[27] For his music albums, Tiersen composes and makes arrangements incorporating many instruments, including keyboards such as the piano,electric piano,Fender Rhodes, organs,harpsichord,Bontempi and toy pianos,Korg andMoog synthesizers,Mellotron, piano accordions andmelodica,strings as the violin, viola,violone and the cello, different types of electric, acoustic or bass guitars,mandolin,banjo,ukulele,bouzouki andoud,brasses, likehorns, and woodwind instruments such as the saxophone, clarinet, bassoon,pipe, oboe and the flute, percussions like drums,vibraphone,marimba,tubular bells,tom drum,cymbal,glockenspiel andtam-tam, or the sounds produced byLeslie speaker,music box,carillons,typewriters,cooking vessels, chairs, acar or abicycle wheel. Tiersen also plays many of these instruments himself either in the studio or on a live set.[13]
Tiersen's ability to compose music that can be easily used forfilm scores was evident from the beginning. All tracks from his debut album,La Valse des monstres, were conceived for stage adaptations and plays. The title track of his second album,Rue des cascades, was used forThe Dreamlife of Angels byErick Zonca,[12][16] and several tracks from both albums plus three songs fromLe Phare are featured on the soundtrack toJean-Pierre Jeunet's filmAmélie.[8] Another track formLe Phare, "L'Homme aux bras ballants", is the soundtrack to a short animation film by Laurent Gorgiard. Tiersen's pieces are also featured onAlice et Martin byAndré Téchiné, andQui plume la lune? by Christine Carrière.
Following the box-office success ofAmélie,[2][13] Tiersen's skills as a composer of film scores were much in demand, and this led him to compose the music forGood Bye, Lenin! byWolfgang Becker. Although the soundtrack forAmélie consisted mainly of pieces that Tiersen had previously released on his first two albums, the soundtrack forGood Bye, Lenin! was conceived from scratch, except for "Comptine d'un autre été : L'après-midi", which is also featured onAmélie's soundtrack.[8]
Tiersen returned to making film soundtracks in 2008 after a years-long break, creating the score for a documentary about the sailorÉric Tabarly.[8]
Tiersen has always composed his music in solitude, starting from simple melodies to which he added subsequent layers. His first album,La Valse des monstres, is almost entirely performed by him alone playing all the instruments, with the exception of "Quimper 94" and "Le Banquet" with drums andcharleston provided by Laurent Heudes.[9] His second album,Rue des cascades, saw the participation of French soloist singerClaire Pichet, who provided vocals on two tracks on the album, "Rue des cascades" and "Naomi", and François-Xavier Schweyer, who played cello on "C'était ici" and "La Fenêtre".[11]Le Phare saw his first collaboration with French singer and songwriterDominique A. Claire Pichet and drummer Sacha Toorop are also featured on this album,[14] but both albums can be considered as a one-man works.
It is at this point in his career, around the end of the nineties, that his collaborations begin to grow. In 1997, he collaborated with French rock bandNoir Désir, the following year Tiersen and Dominique A released the single for "Monochrome",[citation needed] and, in collaboration with Frenchelectronic rock band Bästard, the EPBästard ~ Yann Tiersen,[citation needed] while 1999 saw the releases ofTout est calme, a collaboration mini album by Yann Tiersen, The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano,[citation needed] and of his first live album,Black Session: Yann Tiersen. The live album, recorded in December 1998, features Tiersen with Claire Pichet, Dominique A,The Divine Comedy's singer and songwriterNeil Hannon, Noir Désir's singer and songwriterBertrand Cantat, singer and illustratorFrançoiz Breut, anglophone French rock band The Married Monk, French folk rock groupTêtes Raides, thestring quartet Quatuor à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, and authorMathieu Boogaerts.[citation needed] The soundtrack forAmélie saw for the first time the introduction of a full orchestra, the 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis, and of anondes Martenot played byChristine Ott.[citation needed] Both will participate in the recording sessions for his next album,L'Absente, which also includes American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalistLisa Germano, Belgian actress and singerNatacha Régnier, Neil Hannon, and Têtes Raides, among others.[19]
Tiersen's list of collaborators continues to grow. His second live album,C'était ici, recorded during three concerts performed in February 2002 at theCité de la Musique in Paris, features more than 50 musicians.[21]Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright, a collaboration album with American singer and songwriterShannon Wright, was released in October 2004,[45] and his 2005 album,Les Retrouvailles, features vocals fromStuart Staples ofTindersticks, English actress and singerJane Birkin,Breton singer and songwriterMiossec,Elizabeth Fraser, the vocalist for the pioneer alternative rock groupCocteau Twins, and the Orchestre National de Paris.[24] The subsequent world tour produced his third live albumOn Tour, which replaced the multi-instrumental ensemble ofLes Retrouvailles with a more rock-oriented sound.[25] The soundtrack toTabarly saw Tiersen return tominimalism, in fact most of the compositions featured on the album are for solo piano.[26] But his two subsequent albums return to have a rock-oriented sound, with the only difference thatSkyline has a higher number of contributors thanDust Lane.[31][32]
Tiersen has contributed, either in part or in full, to the realization of several records among which stand out "Gin Soaked Boy" andAbsent Friends by The Divine Comedy,[46][47]Vingt à Trente Mille Jours byFrançoiz Breut,[48]Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04 byStuart A. Staples,[49] andLi(f)e bySage Francis,[50] as well as records by Noir Désir,[51] Têtes Raides,[citation needed] The Married Monk,[52][53] French electronic trio Smooth,[54] Katel, David Delabrosse,[citation needed] Christine Ott,[citation needed] or Miossec.[55] In 2011, Tiersen, with Lionel Laquerriere and Thomas Poli, has also started Elektronische Staubband, a side project onelectronic music. This new project is expected to lead to the release of a new album in 2013.
In 2011, Tiersen collaborated with theYellow Bird Project (YBP) to design a t-shirt,[56] which was sold to raise money forMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The main reason he chose to support MSF, is for their work as one of the three charities helping refugees in Libya at the time.[57] A live video session was also filmed in the MSF London offices to promote the T-shirt and raise awareness for the cause.[58]
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA [15] | BEL (Fl) [59] | BEL (Wa) [60] | SWI [61] | ||
| 1995 | La Valse des monstres
| 139 | — | — | — |
| 1996 | Rue des cascades
| 51 | — | — | — |
| 1998 | Le Phare
| 50 | — | — | — |
| 2001 | L'Absente
| 8 | — | — | — |
| 2005 | Les Retrouvailles
| 6 | 96 | 40 | 48 |
| 2010 | Dust Lane
| 36 | 96 | 97 | — |
| 2011 | Skyline
| 172 | — | — | — |
| 2014 | ∞ (akaInfinity) | 104 | 102 | 101 | — |
| 2016 | EUSA | 21 [62] | 67 | 38 | 76 |
| 2019 | All | 66 [63] | 63 | 116 | 50 |
| 2019 | Portrait | 94 | — | 124 | — |
| 2021 | Kerber | 97 | — | 71 | — |
| 2022 | 11 5 18 2 5 18 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | Rathlin from a Distance | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||||
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA [15] | AUT [64] | BEL (Fl) [59] | BEL (Wa) [60] | NL [65] | SWI [61] | US [66][n 1] | ||||
| 2001 | Amélie
| 1 | 35 | 3 | 28 | 31 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2003 | Good Bye Lenin!
| 49 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2008 | Tabarly
| 122 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | ||||||||||
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRA [15] | SWI [61] | ||
| 1999 | Black Session: Yann Tiersen
| — | — |
| 2002 | C'était ici
| 8 | 64 |
| 2006 | On Tour
| 160 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
Charting
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA [15] | AUT [64] | BEL (Fl) [59] | BEL (Wa) [60] | SWI [61] | ||||
| 2013 | "Comptine d'un autre été : L'après-midi" | 187 | 41 | — | — | 34 | Amélie (soundtrack) | |
| 2016 | "Porz goret" | 181 [68] | — | — | — | — | EUSA | |
Others
| Year | Record | FR [15][n 2] |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | "Monochrome"
| — |
| 1998 | Bästard ~ Tiersen
| — |
| 1999 | Tout est calme
| 45 |
| 2004 | Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright
| 60 |
| 2010 | The Dark Age of Love
| — |
| 2015 | ESB
| — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | ||
| Year | Title | Director | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | La Traversée | Aurélie du Boys | Documentary about the recording and composition ofLes Retrouvailles inOuessant. |
| 2006 | On Tour | Aurélie du Boys | Documentary about the world tour of 2006. Featured performers: Marc Sens, Grégoire Simon,Diam's, Katel,Elizabeth Fraser, DD La Fleur,Christine Ott, Stéphane Bouvier, Ludovic Morillon. |
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