Les Retrouvailles [Import]

Yann Tiersen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 30, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ici d’'Ailleurs
• ASIN: B000852GIQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,612 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Pop > Euro Pop > French Pop

Editorial Reviews

With his whimsical, melancholy music, Yann Tiersen has become a sought-after composer, not only for his soundtrack work, but in his own right. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences, Tiersen's deceptively simple style has been likened to Chopin, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, and Michael Nyman. THis is his 2005 album featuring guest vocalists Liz Frazier, Jane Birkin, Stuart Stapple & Dominique A. Virgin.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The music that makes you dream, February 12, 2009

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M. Milkevicius (Golden, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Retrouvailles (Audio CD)

It is for sure not Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain soundtrack... Way deeper and whole-souled.

If you like the old drawer chest of your grandma and bouquet of wild flowers on top of it, if you like to sit in old grandpas chair on lazy and calm summer evening - is for you.

Les Retrouvailles is a passionate album. Happily and sadly romantic with a wonderful touch of mystery and mystique. In total, there are sixteen tracks of pure mental delight decorated with piano, accordion, harpsichord, violin, mandolin, bass, guitar, banjo, melodica, toy piano, typewriter, vibraphone and various rhythm instruments.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album deserves 6 out of 5 stars, January 18, 2006

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Jessica Leighton (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Retrouvailles (Audio CD)

I can't even describe to you how great this cd is. It is simply spectacular/amazing. After hearing the soundtrack to Goodbye Lenin, I was quite disappointed. I thought that Amelie might have been the peak of Yann's career but I was very wrong. Les Retrouvailles is 120568x's better than Amelie. I definitely recommend it, especially track three...wonderfully mezzmerizing. It puts you right on the banks of the Siene looking up at the effiel tower. I am so grateful to have found this incredible music. Thanks again Yann!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, October 5, 2006

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Yann Tiersen "Music Lover" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Les Retrouvailles (Audio CD)

I love this music, I cant even describe it. It is out of this world.
If you liked his soundtrack of the move Amelie, you are going to love this one, it is a little more contemporary and more diverse. Its great.