ALL

by Yann Tiersen

Overview

With ALL, Yann Tiersen continues the celebration of special places and the feelings they evoke that was the focus of 2014's â?? (Infinity) and 2016's Eusa. On the former album, he explored Iceland and the Faroe Islands; on the latter, he paid tribute to his home base of Ushant, an island between Brittany and Cornwall. This time, Tiersen explores the beauty of the world around us -- and humanity's inescapable connection to it -- with results that blend â?? (Infinity)'s epic beauty with Eusa's intimacy. ALL's creative process was a similar combination of grand and small: Tiersen recorded the majority of the album in the Eskal -- a studio, performance, and community center in Ushant -- but also incorporated field recordings from Germany, England, and California and collaborated with vocalists from Sweden and Iceland as well as his home base, most of whom sing in Breton. These diverse elements come together to reinforce the overarching emotionality of his music. The tender piano melody at the heart of "Tempelhof" is pure Tiersen, as is the bittersweet violin counterpoint of the brief but powerful "Usal Road," a piece inspired by the California road where he was chased by a mountain lion in 2014. With pieces like this one, the beautiful meditation of "Koad (Wood)" (which features Anna von Hausswolff), and the birdsong woven through nearly every track, ALL may be even more overt in its love of nature than the two albums that came before it. In the album's midsection, its interconnectedness reaches nearly mystical levels that encompass nature's radiance on "Heol (Sun)," its shadows on "Gwennilied (Swallows)," and suggest a love that conquers time and space on the ethereal "Pell (Far)." An uplifting, planet-sized embrace, ALL is another triumph for Tiersen. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date:	02/15/2019
Label:	Mute
UPC:	0724596979822

Tracks

1. Tempelhof
2. Koad
3. Erc'h
4. Usal Road
5. Pell
6. Bloavezhio¿¿
7. Heol
8. Gwennilied
9. Aon
10. Prad
11. Beure Kenta¿¿

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Yann Tiersen   Primary Artist,Vocals
Coyotes   Vocals
Anna von Hausswolff   Vocals
Gaelle Kerrien   Vocals,Choir/Chorus
Olavur Jakupsson   Vocals
Maela Kloareg   Choir/Chorus
Skolajidi Diwan Ar Releg   Choir/Chorus
Gwenn an Dreo   Choir/Chorus
Emilie Tiersen   Vocals,Choir/Chorus
Denez Prigent   Vocals

Technical Credits

Yann Tiersen   Collage,Composer,Engineer,Instrumentation,Design
Anjela Duval   Poetry
Torfinnur Jakupsson   Composer
Paul A. Taylor   Design
Matias Duarte   Studio Assistant,Engineer
Anna von Hausswolff   Composer
Filip Leyman   Engineer
Olavur Jakupsson   Composer
Grace Banks   Studio Assistant
Antoine Lacoste   Engineer
Alex Sitnikov   Field Recording
Emilie Tiersen   Design,Composer,Cover Art,Photography
Denez Prigent   Composer
Gareth Jones   Additional Production,Engineer,Mixing