Jeroen Van Veen - Tiersen - Island (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Yann Tiersen's (b.1970) music traverses genres from French folk music and chanson to minimal, avant-garde and post-rock. The French composer and multi-instrumentalist is primarily known for writing the music for the film Amélie. In 2016 he made the album EUSA, then in 2021, he ventured a step further towards electronic music with his new album Kerber (2021). The latter is a beautifully structured, immersive and thoughtfully constructed electronic world, composed on the island of Ushant where Tiersen now resides. The title of each track on these two albums refers to a specific place on Ushant. Kerber, for example, is named after a chapel in a small village on the island. Some offer the perfect soundtrack for contemplation on a long walk or staring out of a window on a train journey. Others seem predestined to be background music for study or relaxation. With each song, your imagination can easily conjure a scene from a movie: a breakup after a fight in a cosy café or a nature documentary showing two baby birds opening their eyes for the very first time. After a frightening experience with a mountain lion in California, Tiersen came to a realisation. He needed to discover himself more intimately, and to do that, he needed to better know his home, Ushant. In order to understand his home and discover himself, he decided to draw a musical map of the island, of which EUSA is volume one; it contains ten piano works about ten places on Ushant. 'I think there is a similarity between the infinite big and the infinite smallness of everything,' explains Yann Tiersen. 'It's the same experiment looking through a microscope as it is a telescope.' This exploration of the micro and the macro has permeated much of Tiersen's career, and Kerber once again shows the vast expansiveness and intricate detail of his work. This isn't a collection about isolation; it is more an expression of being conscious of your immediate environment, and your place within it. For Tiersen, this approach extracts the same degree of profundity as spending the evening studying the stars - which he himself does.

TRACKLIST

1. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: I. Pern
2. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: II. Porz Goret
3. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: III. Lok Gweltaz
4. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: IV. Penn Ar Roc'h
5. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: V. Kereon
6. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: VI. Yuzin
7. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: VII. Roc'h Ar Vugale
8. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: VIII. Penn Ar Lann
9. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: IX. Enez Nein
10. Jeroen Van Veen - Eusa: X. Kadoran
11. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: I. Kerlann
12. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: II. Ar Maner Kozh
13. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: III. Kerdrall
14. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: IV. Ker Yegu
15. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: V. Ker al Loch
16. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: VI. Kerber
17. Jeroen Van Veen - Kerber: VII. Poull Bojer



Thanks to the Original customer.