Yann Tiersen announces career-spanning album including 3 new songs and 25 newly recorded tracks

“Portrait” is a brand new career-spanning (all re-recorded) album for Yann Tiersen featuring Gruff Rhys, John Grant, Stephen O’Malley and Blonde Redhead and also including 3 new songs. PORTRAIT

Recorded to 24-track 2-inch tape, mixed to stereo ¼ inch tape then mastered from tape to vinyl, the album is a fully analog approach for Tiersen. “Limiting our ability to digitally manipulate, overdub or make changes after deciding a creative path gave an energy and beautiful tension to the recording process which I’d found was being lost with the limitless possibilities of digital recording. Not translating sounds into 1 and 0 keeps music in the real world.”

Besides the before mentioned featurings, the album was recorded with touring collaborators Emilie Tiersen, Ólavur Jákupsson and Jens L Thomsen at The Eskal, the new analog studio complex Tiersen recently built on his home island of Ushant in Brittany.

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Below you can listen to the first two tracks to be launched from the album, “Introductory Movement (feat. Stephen O’Malley)” and “Monochrome (feat. Gruff Rhys)”:

“Portrait” tracklisting

• Introductory Movement (feat. Stephen O’Malley)
• The Long Road (La Longue Route)
• Monochrome (feat. Gruff Rhys)
• Chapter 19 (feat. Ólavur Jákupsson)
• Rue des Cascades (feat. Ólavur Jákupsson)
• The Old Man Still Wants It
• Gwennilied (feat. Emilie Tiersen)
• Prad (feat. Stephen O’Malley)
• Diouz An Noz (feat. Emilie Tiersen & Ólavur Jákupsson)
• Porz Goret
• La Dispute
• Pell (feat. Emilie Tiersen)
• Erc’h (feat. Ólavur Jákupsson)
• The Wire (Sur le Fil)
• The Waltz of the Monsters (feat. Emilie Tiersen)
• Closer (feat. Blonde Redhead)
• Naval
• The Jetty
• Koad (feat. Ólavur Jákupsson)
• Prayer No.2
• Gronjord (feat. Ólavur Jákupsson)
• Kala (feat. Ólavur Jákupsson)
• Comptine d’Un Autre Été (L’Après-Midi)
• Tempelhof (Part 2)
• Thinking Like A Mountain (feat. John Grant & Stephen O’Malley)

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