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| 5.0 classic | Richard777 | December 1st 21 |
I discovered Yann Tiersen around 1999, a little before he became famous thanks to the film
"Amelie"; I have thus fortunately escaped this confusion which is made since then between his
music and the Parisian romanticism, a la Prevert, Doisneau, and so on. Yann Tiersen is a Breton
musician and his music does not evoke any of this Franco-French myth that he seems to reject on a
personal and political level. "La Valse des Monstres" is a sort of compilation of music that
Tiersen wrote for two plays. He mixes accordion, violin, pipes, toy piano... The music (and
sometimes the titles, like "Cleo au trapeze") evoke a bit the world of the circus and one thinks
of another Frenchman, Laurent Petitgand, and the music he wrote for the circus scene in "Wings of
Desire" by Wim Wenders. For the record, Laurent Petitgand was born in the French city of Nancy,
where the label Ici D'Ailleurs is based, which has released some of his albums, as well as those
of... Yann Tiersen. Nancy where also lived the late Solveig Dommartin, who plays, precisely, in
this scene of "Wings of Desire". The general tone of "La Valse des Monstres" is melancholy, or
let's say, a bittersweet, nostalgic feeling. The melodies, even joyful ones, manage to make one a
little sad - and everybody knows that "sorrow is nothing but worn-out joy".
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| 3.5 great | Nero | May 25th 18 |
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