- published: 13 Apr 2014
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Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Tiersen is often mistaken for a composer of soundtracks, himself saying "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background", but his real focus is on touring and studio albums which just happen to often be suitable for film. His most famous soundtrack for the film Amélie was primarily made up of tracks taken from his first three studio albums.
Yann Tiersen was born in Brest in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France, in 1970, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. He started learning piano at the age of four, violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne. In the early 1980s when he was a teenager, he was influenced by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division. In 1983, at the age of 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. Tiersen was then living in Rennes, home to the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, held annually in December, which gave him the opportunity to see acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. A few years later, when his band broke up, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording music solo with a synthesizer, a sampler, and a drum machine.
I walked into the street
To see myself looking back at me
So many eyes
It's in the way I walk
Just wanna be touched in the right way
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
A secret place in a lover's arms
I know a place not far from here
??? secret place
In each others' arms
And for this cause we will light the fire
It's growing (groping???)
Push it down with one hand
The other fanning the flames
To a rage
Of love and hate
And of betrayal
In the life of a man who's blown his last chance
Some secrets are too great to keep to yourself
For it jumps and tickles[?] inside my skin
Scratching like a dog in ???
I walked into the street
To see myself looking back at me
So many eyes
It's in the way we walk
Just wanna be touched in the right way
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
A secret place in a lover's arms
I know a place not far from here
It's a secret place
Don't keep away
Come to the cause
Come fuel the fire
It's growing
Push it down with one hand
The other fanning the flames
To a rage
Of love and hate
And of betrayal
In each others' arms
I know a place not far from here