On Saturday, we went to see Yann Tierson play a show at Republic. Yann is a French composer and multi instrumentalist. The music/musicians were very good but more suited for the theater. Most of the songs were instrumental with Yann on guitar or violin. I can see why he was chosen to record the soundtrack for Amelie. His music is very cinematic and dreamy.
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the largely accordion and piano driven music of Yann while driving with his production assistant who put on a CD he hadn't heard before. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tierson's entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film. The soundtrack features both compositions from Tiersen's first three albums, but also new items, variants of which can be found on his fourth album, L'Absente, which he was writing at the same time.
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