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Yann Tiersen
France • b. 1970-06-23
Yann Tiersen is credited on 260 releases across 103 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1992–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
260
Pressings credited
103
Albums
4
Decades active
15
In collections
Biography
Yann Pierre Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer from Brittany. 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 the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter. 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," 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 film Amélie.
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Credited work
260 releases · 103 albums · active 1992–2025
- Performance · 1,956
- Other credits · 348
- Engineering · 67
- Production · 15
Studios: Studio Davout · The Eskal · Cité de la Musique · Artistic Palace Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Divine Comedy
- This Immortal Coil
- Diam's
- Denez
- The Third Eye Foundation
- Françoiz Breut
- Luxury (3)
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