RhoDeo 1843 Aetix

Hello,


Today's artists are a Belgian synthpop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music... ......N'Joy

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In 1979, mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic music, they released a stripped-down synthesized cover version of "Twist à St. Tropez" by Les Chats Sauvages. They followed up with an ultra-slow cover of "Rock Around the Clock", a relaxed and dispassionate version of Plastic Bertrand's punk song "Ça Plane Pour Moi", and a mechanical cover of "Dance to the Music", originally by Sly Stone. Telex built its music entirely from electronic instruments, employing joyously irreverent humor. The group's debut album, Looking for Saint Tropez, featured the worldwide hit single "Moskow Diskow".

In 1980, Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group entered and were eventually sent to the finals, although they apparently hoped to come in last.

    "We had hoped to finish last, but Portugal decided otherwise. We got ten points from them and finished on the 19th spot."—Marc Moulin

The group's song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself.

For their third album, Sex, Telex enlisted the US group Sparks to help write the lyrics. However, the band still refused to play live and preferred to remain anonymous—common practice in the techno music artists the group later inspired but, nevertheless, unusual in 1981. The fourth Telex album, Wonderful World, was barely distributed. In 1986, Atlantic Records signed Telex and released the album Looney Tunes in 1988. In 1989, Telex revisited their old tracks and remixed them to resemble house music and other genres then prevalent in electronic pop. The result was Les Rythmes Automatiques, released in 1989.

After a long hiatus, Telex made a comeback in March 2006 with How Do You Dance on EMI Records. It contained five original compositions as well as five covers. The group's last single was a cover of "On the Road Again", originally by Canned Heat. They also produced remixes for other artists' single releases, including "A Pain That I'm Used To" by Depeche Mode and "Minimal" by the Pet Shop Boys.

Following the death of band member Marc Moulin in 2008, the surviving members of the band announced their retirement from making music with the band's final release, a compilation album titled Ultimate.

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If you are interested in this album, I suspect that you are probably one of 1% of all music listeners in the world who ever heard of this band and I don't need to tell you about this band. Belgium-based Telex is one of maybe 4 or 5 music groups that planted the seeds of modern day electronica. Until Telex came along in the late 70's and early 80's, most recordings with synthesisers/keyboards fell under the categories of space rock or prog-rock or were just filler/background for the guitars. Sure Gary Wright was proud to tell the world that all of his musical sounds were created by keyboards. But Telex took the keyboards, added a toe-tapping beat and a few quirky lyrics to create such early dance classics as "Moskow Diskow" and "Twist A Saint Tropez." Both of those songs are in this affordable compilation. They didn't have the visual (sort of glam) image of some of their contemporaries such as Visage or Human League. They didn't experiment as much as some of their contemporaries like Ultravox and Depeche Mode. They most definitely didn't have the production qualities of today's electronica. You won't hear any heavy reverb, heavy compression, or bass-boosted electronic drumbeats on this album. You will hear a band that had a whole lot fun making music. They didn't have much commercial success outside of the French speaking nations, which is why a majority of the songs on this album are sung in French. But there were a few English translations and some of those are here.

Telex - Looking For Saint Tropez (flac  323mb)

01 Moskow Diskow 4:12
02 Pakmoväst 3:42
03 Café De La Jungle 1:07
04 Ça Plane Pour Moi 5:25
05 Some Day - Un Jour 1:12
06 Something To Say 5:02
07 Rock Around The Clock 3:56
08 Victime De La Société #2 3:54
09 Twist À St Tropez 3:19
10 Moskow Diskow (Maxi) 4:12
11 Le Fond De L'Air Est Rouge 3:21
12 Victime De La Société #1 3:53
13 Quelque Chose À Dire 5:11
14 Ave Fifi 3:58

Telex - Looking For Saint Tropez   (ogg  135mb)

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The production here is awesome vintage early 80s. It's vocoder, drum machines, and R2-D2 blips and bleeps swirling everywhere. However, the great pop songwriting that these sounds seem to demand bubbles up only occasionally, such as the beautiful "My Time".  Still, this album is worth a spin or twom very good and solid technopop - it is cheaper sounding than their contemporaries (Kraftwerk and YMO) but the catchiness and well-written tunes hold up well.  I'd almost say this is an early technopop classic.  Bonus tracks include some really great material that was released as singles or B-sides ("Soul Waves", "Lakele", which is my favorite Telex track) and a lot of alternate English versions of the album tracks ("B sides", the English "A/B", just sounds so much better).

 Telex - Neurovision  (flac  422mb)
 
01 We Are All Getting Old 3:42
02 My Time 4:22
03 Tour De France 4:05
04 Euro-Vision 2:43
05 Plus De Distance 3:31
06 Dance To The Music 4:16
07 Réalité 3:34
08 Cliché 0:45
09 A/B 3:23
10 En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures 3:38
11 Finale 0:12
Bonusses
12 "Belgium, One Point" 0:03
13 Troppical 1:50
14 Colonel Olrik Ha Ha Ha 2:12
15 Soul Waves (Version 1) 3:44
16 More Than Distance 3:25
17 My Future 3:36
18 Neurovision 3:19
19 Lakelele (Laquelle Elle Est) 3:19
20 B Sides 3:22
21 Soul Waves (Version 2) 3:38

Telex - Neurovision   (ogg 177mb)

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Perhaps a little explainer is in order.  "Sex" is Telex's third album, released in 1981.  A year later, it was re-released in Britian as "Birds and Bees" with a different tracklisting, though not different enough that I'd consider them two different albums.  The 2003 CD is "Sex", plus the extra tracks from "Birds and Bees", then some B-sides and unreleased stuff at the end (including an early version of "L'amour Toujours").

Anyway, this album is perhaps best known for the fact that the lyrics were written by Sparks, which is why the lyrics are wittier and more complex than usual.  If you are familiar with Sparks then you will probably notice their presence right away ("If that guy weren't so black, he'd look just like me").  They sound odd coming from Michael Moers, not exactly a natural English speaker, sometimes putting emphasis on the wrong bits.  But they still add an entertaining aspect to this album that isn't really present on the other albums.  Particularly since a couple tunes here sound like they could have easily appeared on a de facto Sparks album ("Sigmund Freud's Party", "Carbon Copy", "Dummy").  Would've beat the piss out of Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat, that's for sure.

Unfortunately, the music itself is a bit droll and mechanical.  Like Sparks I think they kind of dialed down the excitement after they'd become "veterans", especially since sucking the life out of things was kind of Telex's gimmick.  But I'm not sure that works so well on a quirky pop album like this one.   Now, that said, I think the hooks are generally good enough to survive that, particularly on cuts like "Dream-O-Mat" (one of their best tunes), "The Man With the Answer", and "Long Holiday".  I guess it depends on how much you dig Telex's Commodore-heavy synth noises, which still sound like nothing else.

 Dan Lacksman, lead vocalist for the group, does not have what you could call a particularly distinctive singing voice, and the bands rhythms or music are far from groundbreaking, but this album easily hits the spot if you are looking for a representative for the eighties synth-pop genre. Quite cleverly writen 'english' lyrics(from a man who's natural language is not English) coupled with some damn catchy pop hooks, earns this highly polished and cleanly produced album a degree of dignity in the world of synth music. Even though (strangely enough) the record resembles the kind of shit digital pop we'd see a lot of in 1986 and 1987.  Overall I think this is a solid 3-star record, but with the Birds And Bees album here there's enough good stuff to up it a notch.  Like with Neurovision it gives the full story of what the group was up to around this time.  Though I think "Basta" is actually from '87, probably included here cuz none of the other CDs had it.

  Telex - Sex + Birds And Bees   (flac  442mb)

01 Brainwash 4:28
02 Drama Drama 3:57
03 Haven't We Met Somewhere Before? 4:06
04 Long Holiday 2:12
05 The Man With The Answer 3:15
06 Carbon Copy 6:34
07 Exercise Is Good For You 3:35
08 Dream-O-Mat 4:13
09 Sigmund Freud's Party 2:53
Birds And Bees
10 Mata Hari 3:43
11 Dummy 3:46
12 L'Amour Toujours 3:50
13 Loops 3:24
14 Cloches Et Sifflets 3:00
15 Don't Put All Your Dreams In One Basket 2:23
16 I Can't Turn You Loose 3:13
17 Brainwash (Long Version) 5:12
18 The Look Of Love 3:36
19 Basta 2:43

Telex - Sex + Birds And Bees  (ogg   174mb)

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RhoDeo 1843 Supernatural 3

Hello, in accordance with the upcoming autumnal days when the light is fading, the supernatural manifest and us humans start to shiverrrr


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Victor Pemberton was a British writer and television producer. His scriptwriting work included BBC radio plays, and television scripts for the BBC and ITV, including Doctor Who, The Slide and The Adventures of Black Beauty. His television production work included the British version of Fraggle Rock (second series onwards), and several independent documentaries including the 1989 International Emmy Award-winning Gwen: A Juliet Remembered, about stage actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. He died on August 13, 2017 in Spain. ...... N Joy

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Tormented by the spirit of her dead husband – Virginia Preston seeks help from a young medium Simon Elliot. But as questions commence and the investigation begins; Simon uncovers the real truth behind the events leading up to the murder of her younger lover and the execution of her husband, in this intense psychological paranormal thriller from Victor Pemberton.


This BBC radio drama is a treat for fan of old-school supernatural horror. Starring Judith Paris, Tracey Childs, and James McNicholas


Victor Pemberton - Dark. ( 86min mp3  60mb)

A lover murdered ... her husband hanged ... Then inexplicable events occur in the room in which, years ago, the murder took place. A young man called in to explore the happenings becomes possessed by people from the past. Can the dead really return to control the lives of the living?

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previously

Robert Westall - The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral ( 87min mp3  60mb)
Robert Westall - The Wheatstone Pond ( 60min mp3  39mb)

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RhoDeo 1843 Re-Up 161

Hello, well as predicted Maxico took the bull by the horns right from the start, Hamilton had a great start but knew not to mess with Max he was there to become World Champion, it certainly wasn't his best race as he got overtaken by Vettel and Ricciardo latter never saw the finish as his car quit in 2nd place but with old tires-cars don't like that Daniel-Anyway, Max had his engine turned down to stop him overtaking Hamilton again after overtaking everyone twice except Bottas in 5th who only got lapped once. Ole



10 correct requests for this week, and 1 too early, whatever another batch of 33 re-ups (10 gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to October 28th... N'Joy

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3x Roots Back In Flac (VA - Irie Irie I, VA - Irie Irie 2, VA - Reggae Refreshers)


4x Roots Back In Flac (Lalo Schifrin - O.S.T. THX 1138, Lalo Schifrin - O.S.T.Enter the Dragon, Lalo Schifrin - O.S.T. The 4 Musketeers, Lalo Schifrin - Black Widow )


3x Sundaze NOW in Flac (Midnight Syndicate - Born Of The Night, Midnight Syndicate - Realm of Shadows, Midnight Syndicate - Gates of Delirium)


2x Sundaze NOW In Flac (Gil Scott-Heron - The Best Of, Disposable Heroes- Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury)


3x Beats Back in Flac (Jeff Mills -  Waveform Transmission V 1, Jeff Mills -  Waveform Transmission V 3, Jeff Mills - Purpose Maker Comp.)


4x Grooves Back In Flac (Kool & The Gang - As One, Kool & The Gang - In The Heart, Kool & The Gang - Emergency, Kool & The Gang - Forever)


3x Sundaze Back in Flac (Cluster - Cluster 71, Cluster - Cluster II , Cluster - Sowiesoso)


4x Aetix Back in Flac (Frank Tovey - Snakes & Ladders, Frank Tovey - Civilian, Frank Tovey - Tyranny And The Hired Hand, Frank Tovey - Grand Union)

4x Beats Back in Flac (VA - Macro Dub Infection vol 1-1, VA - Macro Dub Infection vol 1-2, VA - Macro Dub Infection vol 2-1, VA - Macro Dub Infection vol 2-2  )


3x Grooves   Back in Flac (Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits, Sly & The Family Stone - Stand , Sly & Family - There's A Riot Goin' On )

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wasn't available in flac 2 weeks ago but found it

1x Sundaze Back In Flac (VA - Unidentified Floating Ambience)















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Sundaze 1843

Hello, over in Mexico, Max Versappen was in front all thru the training sessions, Q1, Q2 and Q3 until the final seconds when, like last year someone beat him with a few hundredths, then it was Vettel, today it was teammate Ricciardo who had been clearly second to Verstappen in qualifying all year, Ricciardo was ecstatic, Max will destroy him tomorrow, Daniel knows this and will probably crash out, preferably taking Max with him. Vettel too is on a suicide mission, expect a memorable race where in the end Hamilton is crowned F1 World Champion again



Today's Artist with his whimsical, melancholy music, has become a sought-after composer, not only for his soundtrack work, but in his own right. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz, and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences, his deceptively simple style has been likened to Chopin, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, and Michael Nyman. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter. The Paris-based composer became popular outside his native country for his score to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, but like most seemingly overnight successes, he had been working for years before the film's success brought him international acclaim......N'Joy

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Tiersen was born in Brest in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France, in 1970, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. He started learning piano at the age of four, violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne. In the early 1980s when he was a teenager, he was influenced by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division. In 1983, at the age of 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. Tiersen was then living in Rennes, home to the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, held annually in December, which gave him the opportunity to see acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. A few years later, when his band broke up, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording music solo with a synthesizer, a sampler, and a drum machine.

Before releasing film scores under his own name, Tiersen recorded background music for a number of plays and short films. In the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment, recording music alone with an electric guitar, a violin, and an accordion, guided by his vision of “a musical anarchy”. By the end of that summer, Tiersen had recorded over forty tracks, which would form most of his first two albums. Tiersen's debut album, La Valse des monstres, limited to 1,000 copies only, was released in June 1995 by independent record label Sine Terra Firma, and then it was reissued by Nancy-based record label Ici d'ailleurs in 1998 as the second album of its catalogue. The 17-track album was inspired by and written for the theatrical adaptations of Tod Browning's 1932 cult classic Freaks, and Yukio Mishima's 1955 version of Noh play The Damask Drum. One year later, in April 1996, he released Rue des cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion, and mandolin. The title track, sung by French soloist singer Claire Pichet, was used the following year for the Palme d'Or nominated French drama film The Dreamlife of Angels, and several tracks received greater exposure five years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amélie. Tiersen played almost all the instruments both in the studio and in concert, and this gave him a theatrical appeal as a one-man show, which allowed him to perform, among others, at the 1996 edition of the Avignon Festival, the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest.

Tiersen rose to domestic fame upon the release of his third studio album, Le Phare (English: The Light House) in 1998. The album was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ushant (Breton: Enez Eusa, French: Ouessant) at the south-western end of the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of territorial France, where Tiersen spent two months living in a rented house. At night, he watched the Phare du Creach, one of the most powerful lighthouses in the world, and was fascinated by the stunning scenery repeated every night. Le Phare, which featured Claire Pichet, French singer and songwriter Dominique A, and French drummer and percussionist Sacha Toorop, sold over 160,000 copies, confirming Tiersen's status as one of the most innovative artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums. Three songs from this album, "La Dispute", "La Noyee", and "Sur le fil" were used later for the soundtrack of Amélie, while "L'Homme aux bras ballants", written and composed by Dominique A, was also the soundtrack to Laurent Gorgiard's 1997 short animation film of the same title. Its single, "Monochrome", sung by Dominique A, was a radio hit and propelled the album. Le Phare was his first album to chart climbing to number 50 in the French Albums Chart.

In that period Tiersen provided a new arrangement and played strings, vibraphone, bell, mandolin, electric guitar, and bass guitar for the song "À ton étoile" by French rock band Noir Désir on their 1998 remix album One Trip/One Noise,[citation needed] recorded background music for the award-winning and multi-nominated film The Dreamlife of Angels,[for André Téchiné's Alice et Martin, released in 1998, and Christine Carrière's Qui plume la lune?, released in 1999, and also recorded Bästard ~ Yann Tiersen, a 3-track extended play released in 1998 in collaboration with French electronic rock band Bästard, and his first live album, Black Session: Yann Tiersen. The live album was recorded on 2 December 1998 as the opening act of the Rencontres Trans Musicales in the Salle Serreau at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, for the C'est Lenoir show broadcast on the French public radio station France Inter. The album, which features Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and frontman of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy Neil Hannon, singer and songwriter Bertrand Cantat of Noir Désir, singer and illustrator Françoiz Breut, anglophone French rock band The Married Monk (Christian Quermalet, Philippe Lebruman, Etienne Jaumet, Nicolas Courret), French folk rock group Têtes Raides (Christian Olivier, Grègoire Simon, Pascal Olivier, Anne-Gaëlle Bisquay, Serge Bégout, Jean-Luc Millot, and Edith Bégou), the string quartet Quatuor à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, and author Mathieu Boogaerts, as well as his usual collaborators and friends, Claire Pichet and Dominique A, was recorded by France International, mastered by Radio France, and released in cd format one year later on 2 November 1999.

In 1999, Tiersen with The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano, released his first collaboration album, Tout est calme. The 26 minutes, 10 tracks mini album peaked at number 45 on the French Albums Chart. The album produced one single, "Les Grandes marées", and Tiersen also featured on The Divine Comedy's single "Gin Soaked Boy" released on that same year, on three tracks for Françoiz Breut's second studio album Vingt à Trente Mille Jours, and on Têtes Raides' Gratte-poil, both released in 2000.

Tiersen remained relatively unknown outside France until the release of his score for the acclaimed film Amélie (English: The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain) in 2001. French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet had something else in mind for the film score, but one day one of his production assistants put on a CD of Tiersen, and the director found it absolutely superb. Jeunet bought all of Tiersen's albums, and then contacted him to see if the Breton composer was interested in writing the film score for Amélie. In two weeks, Tiersen composed nineteen pieces for the film and also allowed the production to take anything they wanted from his other records. Amélie received great critical acclaim and was a box-office success. The film went on to win the Best Film award at the European Film Awards, four César Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, two BAFTA Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. The soundtrack was a mixture of both new and previously released material, and Tiersen was also the recipient of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film, and of the World Soundtrack Academy award. The soundtrack album charted in many countries, including the number one position on the French Albums Chart.

While he was writing the film score for Amélie Tiersen was also preparing his fifth studio album L'Absente. The album was characterized by several contributions including 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, viola player Bertrand Lambert, violinists Yann Bisquay and Sophie Naboulay, Natacha Régnier, and saxophonist Grégoire Simon, and long-time collaborators Dominique A, Christine Ott, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon, Têtes Raides, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, and Sacha Toorop. The album, which was released on 5 June 2001 through EMI France, was preceded by two promotional singles for "A quai" and "Bagatelle" respectively. Tiersen provided strings and vibraphone to two tracks, "Roma Amor" and "Holidays", featured on R/O/C/K/Y, third studio album by The Married Monk.

At this time he was married to Belgian actress Natacha Régnier, co-star of The Dreamlife of Angels. Régnier became a singer and Tiersen wrote three songs for her including his arrangement of Georges Brassens' "Le Parapluie", a song featured on the tribute album Les Oiseaux de passage, released in 2001. That same year they went on tour in France and abroad. They have a daughter, Lise, born in 2002, but they have since been divorced. In this period, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet. From 15 to 17 February 2002, Tiersen with many of the collaborators who participated in the recording sessions for L'Absente plus Claire Pichet, violinists Nicolas Stevens and Renaud Lhoest, bassist Jean-François Assy, viola player Olivier Tilkin, and uilleann pipes, bagpipes, and low whistle player Ronan Le Bars, performed live at the Cité de la Musique (English: City of Music) in Paris. Part of these three concerts went on to form Tiersen's second live album C'était ici (It Was Here), which was released through EMI France on 30 September 2002.

Tiersen's skills as a composer of film scores were much in demand, and the soundtrack for Amélie was soon followed by the film score for Good Bye, Lenin!, a 2003 German tragicomedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker The film was both a commercial and a critical success and won several awards including the César Award for Best Film from the European Union, Best Film at the European Film Awards, the German Film Awards for Outstanding Film, Best European Film at the Goya Awards, Best Foreign Language Film for the London Film Critics' Circle, and it was also listed in the Empire magazine 2010's list of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" Tiersen was the recipient of the German Film Awards for Outstanding Music. On 15 November 2003, Tiersen with Stuart A. Staples, the lead singer of indie band Tindersticks, actress and singer Jane Birkin, singer and vocalist for Cocteau Twins Elizabeth Fraser, singer and songwriter Christophe Miossec, and Dominique A released 3 titres inédits au profit de la FIDH (3 New Tracks for the Benefit of FIDH), a 3-track CD that was part of the On Aime, On Aide benefit collection for raising funds for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

Tiersen's list of collaborators continues to grow album after album and in October 2004 released Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright, a collaboration album with American singer-songwriter Shannon Wright, and, in the same year, he is featured on The Divine Comedy's album Absent Friends. In 2005, Tiersen released his fifth studio album Les Retrouvailles. The album features several collaborators including the Orchestre National de Paris, singers Elizabeth Fraser, Jane Birkin, Stuart A. Staples, Dominique A, and Miossec, strings players Jean-François Assy, Frederic Dessus, Guillaume Fontanarosa, Bertrand Causse, Anne Causse Biragnet, Armelle Legoff, Frédéric Haffner, flute player Elliott, drummer Ludovic Morillon, and ondes Martenot player Christine Ott Les Retrouvailles also includes a DVD short film entitled La Traversée, directed by Aurélie du Boys, which documents the making of the album in Ushant, and incorporates an animated video for the non-album track, "Le Train", and also live versions of a handful of songs. The album produced a single, "Kala", sung by Elizabeth Fraser, and Tiersen also played piano on Staples' solo debut album, Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04. The subsequent world tour of 2006 replaced the multi-instrumental ensemble with electric guitars and an ondes Martenot, and produced his third live album, On Tour, which was released together with a DVD, directed by Aurélie du Boys, about the tour, in November 2006. In 2006, he also released two singles, "La Mancha" and "La Rade", and he was featured on The Endless Rise of the Sun, third studio album by electronic group Smooth, Raides à la ville extended play by Katel, and 13m² by David Delabrosse.

The year 2008 saw his return after a five years absence as a composer of film scores when he provided the background music for Tabarly, a Pierre Marcel's documentary film about the French sailor, two-time champion of the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, and father of French yachting Éric Tabarly. The documentary was released on June 2008, exactly ten years after Tabarly's death. Éric Tabarly was lost on the night of 12–13 June 1998 at Irish Sea when he was struck by a gaff of his Pen Duick during heavy swell and knocked overboard from his yacht near Wales while on his way to the Fife Regatta in Scotland. His body was recovered five weeks later off the coast of Ireland by a French fishing trawler. The documentary, narrated by Tabarly himself, traces his sporting career until his last meal in Ushant. Before the end of the decade, Tiersen also contributed to Christine Ott's debut solo album Solitude Nomade, and to Miossec's seventh studio album Finistériens.

October 2010 saw the release of Tiersen’s sixth studio album titled Dust Lane. The album was two years in the making and was largely recorded in Ushant, France. Further parts were recorded in the Philippines. The album is preoccupied with mortality; during the recording sessions Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend. The recordings started out as simple song based tracks with Tiersen playing acoustic guitar, mandolin and bouzouki. New layers were added to the recordings creating a more complex sound. Then an array of vintage synthesisers and electric guitars were added to create further textures. The album was released by Mute Records in Europe and Anti Records in the US. The record was promoted in a tour beginning in October 2010, starting in New York City. Dust Lane was preceded by the release of the vinyl EP Palestine and by the single for "Ashes". In 2010, Tiersen also contributed to the tribute album to cross-genre, experimental music group Coil The Dark Age of Love by This Immortal Coil, a one-off tribute formation, and to Li(f)e, the fourth solo studio album by hip-hop artist Sage Francis.

October 2011 saw the European release of his seventh studio album, Skyline. The nine-track album, a follow on from his Dust Lane, was once again recorded at Tiersen's home on the island of Ushant in the south-western end of the English Channel, with further parts recorded in Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, and Nashville. It was subsequently mixed by producer Ken Thomas in Leeds, and mastered by Ray Staff in London. The album produced the singles for "Monuments" and "I'm Gonna Live Anyhow". On 18 February 2012, Tiersen with Lionel Laquerriere, and Thomas Poli, presented his side project, Elektronische Staubband, at La Route du Rock music festival in Saint-Malo. It was about an hour of krautrock, electronic, and experimental music involving a dozen of synthesizers and analog keyboards with the first three pieces of the set list taken from Dust Lane and the remaining five from Skyline. Tiersen was also chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival on March 2012 in Minehead, England. Skyline was released in North America via ANTI- Records on 17 April 2012, and it was followed by the Skyline Tour with dates in the United States, Canada, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, France, Slovak Republic, Austria, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

On 3 August 2016, Yann Tiersen got married to Emilie Quinquis (Tiny Feet) in the island of Ouessant, Brittany. the bride statet they got married at 31 July 2016. Since April 6th, 2017 they have a son and are awaiting a daughter....

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Tout est calme (All Is Calm) is a collaboration mini album by Yann Tiersen, The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano. The album was recorded at Studio Le Chalet in Bordeaux, except for "L'Étal", which was recorded and mixed in Cancale, and then mastered at the Electric City studio in Brussels. All songs were written and composed by Yann Tiersen. The Married Monk collaborated on all pieces except "La Relève" and "L'Étal". Yann Tiersen sings on "Les Grandes Marées", "Tout est calme", "La Relève", and "La Terrasse"
Tierson's music is romantic and cosmopolitan. Very French with a touch of Indy. It is the perfect complement to good cheese (camembert), bread, wine, and a long afternoon for reverie. Because of it, I will study the French language immediately. Au revoir.

Yann Tiersen - Tout Est Calme + EP (flac  262mb)

01 Plus Au Sud 3:02
02 Les Grandes Marées 3:38
03 La Crise 2:25
04 Tout Est Calme 3:16
05 La Rupture 2:33
06 La Relève 1:26
07 La Pharmacie 2:48
08 La Terrasse 2:55
09 L'Étal 1:54
10 La Découverte 2:13
Yann Tiersen - On Aime, On Aide EP
11 L'Intermittence 3:11
12 Le Commerce 2:07
13 La Vaisselle 6:13

Yann Tiersen - Tout Est Calme + EP  (ogg 89mb)

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This ambitious and successful project will undoubtedly remain a highlight in Yann Tiersen's career. The French composer still wears his influences on his sleeve, but does a better job at channeling them to create a truly personal music. For instance, he has been regularly accused of simply revamping the French tradition of musette waltz, but on this record these references subside in favor of a more diversified and modern musical approach. Tiersen also relies less on instrumentals and further develops his songwriting skills, which benefit from the participation of some distinguished guests. Lisa Germano lends her talents to two songs on which her whispery and almost lethargic voice fits as a glove. The beautifully orchestrated "Les jours tristes" reveals the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon at his own very best and is an excellent reason to wish for a full-length collaboration. The instrumentals, however, do not lag behind. Tiersen's abilities as an instrumentalist shine on two solo pieces. In particular, "Qu'en reste-t-il?," on which he is featured on viola, reaches a climax of an intensity and harshness unheard of in Tiersen's output. Another highlight is "Le jour d'avant," an uplifting piece delving into the Balkan Gypsy tradition. With a prevailing bittersweet playfulness and forlorn atmosphere, L'Absente comes through as an endearing and inspired collection of first-rate compositions and songs.
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Yann Tiersen - L'Absente  (flac 256mb)

01 À Quai 4:22
02 La Parade 3:18
03 Bagatelle 4:40
04 L'Absente 3:18
05 Le Jour D'Avant 5:07
06 Les Jours Tristes 3:20
07 L'Échec 2:50
08 La Lettre D'Explication 2:30
09 Qu'En Reste-T-Il ? 3:40
10 Le Méridien 4:16
11 Le Concert 2:49
12 Le Retour 5:22

Yann Tiersen - L'Absente   (ogg  107mb)

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The soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's charming, slightly surreal romantic comedy Amélie features music by Yann Tiersen. Just as the film presents an idyllic, idealized version of Paris, Tiersen's score captures the most romantic aspects of French music, complete with fluttering accordions, delicate harpsichords, mandolins, and poignant strings and pianos. Pieces like "J'y Suis Jamais Allé," "Le Moulin," "La Valse des Monstres," and "Les Jours Tristes" -- which features a toy piano -- convey the film's sweet, slightly skewed outlook perfectly, and are completely charming in their own right. Aside from the three variations on the heroine's theme, "La Valse d'Amélie," most of the score comes from Tiersen's other albums, making Amélie a fine introduction to his work as well as an appropriately winning soundtrack.

Yann Tiersen - Le Fableux Destin d'Amelie Poulain  (flac 310mb)

01 J'y Suis Jamais Allé 1:34
02 Les Jours Tristes (Instrumental) 3:03
03 La Valse D'Amélie 2:15
04 Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi 2:20
05 La Noyée 2:03
06 L'autre Valse D'Amélie 1:33
07 Guilty (by Russ Columbo) 3:13
08 A Quai 3:32
09 Le Moulin 4:27
10 Pas Si Simple 1:52
11 La Valse D'Amélie (Version Orchestre) 2:00
12 La Valse Des Vieux Os 2:20
13 La Dispute 4:15
14 Si Tu N'étais Pas Là (by Fréhel) 3:29
15 Soir De Fête 2:55
16 La Redécouverte 1:13
17 Sur Le Fil 4:23
18 Le Banquet 1:31
19 La Valse D'Amélie (Version Piano) 2:38
20 La Valse Des Monstres 3:39

Yann Tiersen - Le Fableux Destin d'Amelie Poulain   (ogg  107mb)

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The double-disc set C'Était Ici presents Yann Tiersen live in concert, performing highlights from his five studio albums and his score for the French film Amélie, the work for which he may be most widely known. While "La Valse d'Amélie" and "L'Autre Valse d'Amélie" sound just as sparkling and magical here as they did in the movie and on its soundtrack, and songs such as "C'Était Ici" and "Rue des Cascades" follow suit, the album gives equal time to the other sides of Tiersen's music. The pieces with vocals are particularly striking, especially "La Rupture," a winding epic that is as eerie as it is beautiful. The mellow, romantic "La Terrasse," meanwhile, highlights the undercurrents of French pop and rock that influence his work. Hints of French folk can be heard on tracks like "Déjà Loin" and the modern-day gypsy fiddling of "Sur le Fil," emphasizing the fact that while Tiersen blends elements of classical, pop, rock, and folk into his music, all of it is quintessentially French. The live format especially suits some of his more energetic songs, such as "Le Jour d'Avant" and "Le Banquet," both of which feature explosive, rock-oriented drumming. Then again, the beautifully intimate renditions of Serge Gainsbourg's "La Noyée" and Tiersen's own "Le Moulin" are just as powerful in a quiet way.

The second disc digs deeper into Tiersen's discography, offering more of his longer, more involved compositions such as the swooning "Bagatelle," a collaboration with Dominique Ané, and the 12-minute "Fevrier," which conjures images of the grayest, longest-seeming month with ticking percussion and jittery, atonal pianos, guitars, and brass. Other highlights include the dreamy "Le Méridien" and "La Parade," which feature appropriately somnolent vocals from Lisa Germano, another of Tiersen's frequent collaborators, and the gorgeous "Monochrome," a paradoxically vivid description of day-to-day tedium sung by Ané. C'Était Ici functions almost like a greatest-hits collection of Tiersen's work: a welcome reminder for fans of his diverse talent, and an introduction to the rest of his work for those charmed by Amélie. While most two-hour live albums don't necessarily make a good introduction to an artist's work, C'Était Ici is a very happy exception to that rule.

Yann Tiersen - C'était Ici 1 (flac  294mb)

01 Intro 0:25
02 La Valse D'Amélie 2:05
03 C'était Ici 1:53
04 Rue Des Cascades 5:42
05 La Rupture 2:43
06 La Terrasse 3:57
07 Déjà Loin 3:02
08 Sur Le Fil 3:38
09 Le Jour D'Avant 4:20
10 Le Banquet 2:56
11 Les Jours Tristes 3:42
12 La Noyée 3:24
13 Le Moulin 4:03
14 Le Fromveur 2:11
15 L'Homme Aux Bras Ballants 6:04
16 L'Autre Valse D'Amélie 2:51

Yann Tiersen - C'était Ici 1  (ogg 123mb)

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Yann Tiersen - C'était Ici 2 (flac  326mb)

01 Le Méridien 3:58
02 L'Absente 3:25
03 La Parade 3:35
04 La Noyée II 2:40
05 Monochrome 3:46
06 Plus Au Sud 2:54
07 Les Bras De Mer 4:03
08 Comptine D'Un Autre Eté L'Après Midi 2:25
09 Le Quartier 1:45
10 La Crise 3:06
11 Février 12:57
12 La Valse Des Monstres 7:16

Yann Tiersen - C'était Ici 2  (ogg 136mb)

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RhoDeo 1842 Grooves

Hello,

Tonight's Artists are an American Collective formed in 1990 In 2007 they were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year for the release People People Music Music. . .....N'Joy

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The acid jazz outfit Groove Collective was formed in downtown New York City in 1990 by flutist Richard Worth, DJ Smash, and rapper Nappy G, all three staples of a nomadic dance club called Giant Step. In time, the trio was joined by keyboardist Itaal Shur, drummer Gengi Siraisi, and bassist Jonathan Maron, earning a growing cult following and eventually attracting the attention of Steely Dan vibist Bill Ware, who soon signed on along with saxophonist Jay Rodriguez, trombonist Josh Roseman, trumpeter Fabio Morgera, and percussionist Chris Theberge. After witnessing an early show, producer Gary Katz negotiated the band's signing to Reprise Records, and produced their eponymous debut album in 1993.

In 1994, they appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, alongside other prominent jazz artists, Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by Time Magazine. They scored two minor dance instrumental and adult contemporary hits in 1996 with a cover of The Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Lift Off".

Groove Collective's musical style reflects the wide-ranging backgrounds and interests of its individual members. Commenting on the group's 1996 release, We the People, critic Michael Casey referred to the numerous influences at work in Groove Collective's sound, specifically the presence of Afro-pop, Latin jazz, hip-hop, and traditional jazz stylings. This mix is born of the members' varying influences, including bebop, funk, old-school hip-hop and classic soul. Bassist and co-founder Jonathan Maron has acknowledged the importance of a DJ aesthetic in the music, stating that "(Groove Collective's) goal has always been to emulate the range of music a DJ plays during the course of the night at a packed club....A great DJ knows the songs that can ignite the room and fill the dance floor. Some of my favorite musical experiences have been in clubs, where you listen and realize how well all of these styles blend together into one big idiom of its own." Central to the group's ethic is its insistence on live instrumentation and its ability to create and sustain grooves for a dance floor audience.

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In the mid-'90s there have been many attempts to combine jazz with dance music in hopes of making creative music more accessible to younger listeners. Most of these projects have flopped due to the jazz being watered down but this effort from the ten-piece Groove Collective is one of the more successful hybirds. Not counting a pair of juvenile raps, the music is strong from the jazz standpoint and the funky rhythms are generally infectious, resulting in a set of intelligent jazz-oriented dance music.

Groove Collective - Groove Collective   (flac  374mb)

01 Rentstrike 6:07
02 Balimka 3:57
03 Nerd 6:29
04 Rahsaanasong 5:03
05 Ms. Grier 4:36
06 Whatchugot 6:10
07 El' Golpé Avisa 9:52
08 Genji Monogatari 6:49
09 Buddha Head 3:59
10 Saturday Afternoon 10:29

Groove Collective - Groove Collective (ogg   150mb)

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In the late '90s, it looked like the concept of "acid jazz" was going to catch on. The idea was to create jazz so funky and rhythmic that it would be danced to in clubs and perhaps even catch on big commercially. Most groups that became involved in acid jazz de-emphasized the jazz in favor of mundane rhythms, going for the potential money at the expense of the music. Groove Collective struck a better balance, keeping the funk going much of the time (when they were not playing Afro-Cuban jazz), but also having some sound explorations and some strong solos. The lineup of musicians featured on We the People includes such notables as trombonist Josh Roseman, trumpeter Fabio Morgera, and vibraphonist Bill Ware III. The problem with We the People, other than the throwaway rap on "I Am," is that none of the pieces is particularly worthy. The playing is stronger than the writing and, while one can enjoy the grooves and some of the more colorful moments, there is nothing about this music that is particularly memorable. It probably worked much better in dance clubs but, even then, if the songs had been more distinctive and catchy, it might have resulted in acid jazz becoming a significant style of music instead of just a nice try.

Groove Collective - We The People (flac  454mb)

01 Jay Wrestles The Bari Constrictor Pt.1 1:20
02 Loisaida 5:41
03 Lift Off 4:25
04 Everybody (We The People) 5:10
05 Fly 7:50
06 Sneaky 6:45
07 I Am 4:25
08 Caterpillar 4:15
09 Hide It 4:51
10 Anthem 5:06
11 Sedate 5:16
12 Jay Wrestles The Bari Constrictor Pt.2 4:28
13 Nightwaves 0:58

Groove Collective - We The People (ogg  164mb)

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With their brand of acid jazz, the Groove Collective mix the spirit of horn bands like Earth, Wind & Fire with the snap of hip-hop and the edge of hard bop on Dance of the Drunken Master. While jazz purists might wince at the gurgling rhythms, most will find it hard to keep still with the thick funk on these tracks. This is music with a sense of fun.

Groove Collective - Dance of the Drunken Master (flac  431mb)

01 Out The Door 6:49
02 Deal With It 3:41
03 Floating 4:48
04 Bionic 4:42
05 St. Gallen 5:39
06 Peep Show 6:28
07 Que Te Pasa'ti 3:39
08 Anna Christina 6:19
09 Drunken Master 4:20
10 Tangenziale 4:42
11 Runaway Child 5:00
12 Sending 5:07
13 World Bank 5:20
14 Hey 4:18

Groove Collective - Dance of the Drunken Master (ogg  157mb)

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RhoDeo 1842 Roots

Hello,


Today's artist are a Mexican band founded on April 13, 1987, by Mario Quintero Lara and a group of friends in the City of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The members began their musical career by playing in nightclubs. .  .....N'Joy

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Los Tucanes de Tijuana were formed by vocalist/guitarist Mario Quintero Lara, vocalist/accordionist Joel Higuera, drummer David Servin, and bassist Mario Moreno. The quartet began recording and soon signed a contract with Alacran Records, which released 14 Tucanazos Bien Pesados and Mundo de Amor in 1995. The albums fared so well that Los Tucanes de Tijuana earned a contract with EMI Latin. The group has also recorded for Unisono and Cintas Acuario, releasing Amor Platonico in 1998; their Nuestras Primeras Canciones, Vol. 1 collection appeared the same year, as did Los Más Buscados. Me Gusta Burlar la Ley was issued in September 2000. Mi Gusta Vivir de Noche followed on Universal Latino later that fall, and Claves, Masacres y Fugas and Mission Especial were both released in early 2001. Relentlessly prolific, the band released some 50 albums and compilations in the next dozen years, including four, Romance Norteño, Para Tucancillos y Tucancillas, Me Gusta la Banda, and Corridos a Quema Ropa, early in 2013.

The following year, the group issued Corridos Time, Temporada 1: Soy a Parrandero, that included various narcocorridos including "El Comandante Metro 3" (about late Gulf Cartel drug lord Samuel Flores Borrego), "Julián Pérez" recounting the story from the 2011 film Solvando de Soldado Perez, and "El Shaka" the theme from the popular Mexican television series of the same name. The set placed high on airplay charts and did well in sales, landing well inside the Top 200. They group also released a compilation of love songs in 2014 entitled Perdóname Mi Amor.

They are twelve-time Grammy nominees and have received numerous music awards in Mexico, the Americas and Europe. They have sold over 15,000,000 albums and are proud to note among their achievements several gold, platinum and multiplatinum records. They have filled to capacity highly important venues in the United States and Mexico such as Dodger Stadium, the Astrodome, Estadio Azteca, and have had concerts at Central Park in New York City and the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City where the crowds easily surpassed 120,000 fans. Los Tucanes De Tijuana average 120 engagements per year, more than 5 million attendees have enjoyed their concerts, in addition to their performances in the strip clubs of the valley of Texas. Los Tucanes de Tijuana is the only Regional Mexican Band that has been able to place simultaneously 6 songs on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums (1996-1997). Also It is the only Mexican group to which has been dedicated main cover sheets like Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Diego Tribune, News Week, U.S. Week, People and New York Times.

After touring for most of 2015, Los Tucanes de Tijuana issued the singles "Pinta De Magnate" and "Clave Z40" at the beginning of the following year. The subsequent album, Corridos Time, Season Two: Los Implacables, was released in March on Fonovisia.

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Los Tucanes de Tijuana are by far the global ambassadors of Norteña music and corridos. Norteño (Spanish  northern), also called música norteña, is a genre of Mexican music related to polka and corridos. As its names indicates, Norteño is a traditional musical expression from Northern Mexico. The accordion and the bajo sexto are norteño's most characteristic instruments. Norteño music developed in the late 19th century, as a mixture between German folk music (which was introduced to Mexico with the arrival of German migrant workers in those years), and local Northern Mexican music.The genre is popular in both Mexico and the United States, especially among the Mexican and Mexican-American community, and it has become popular in many Latin American countries as far as Chile and Colombia and in Spain. Though originating from rural areas, norteño is popular in urban as well as rural areas.
The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry that form a ballad. The songs are often about oppression, history, daily life for peasants, and other socially relevant topics. It is still a popular form today in Mexico and was widely popular during the Mexican Revolutions of the 20th century. The corrido derives largely from the romance, and in its most known form consists of a salutation from the singer and prologue to the story, the story itself, and a moral and farewell from the singer. Until the arrival and success of electronic mass-media (mid-20th century), the corrido served in Mexico as the main informational and educational outlet, even with subversive purposes, due to an apparent linguistic and musical simplicity that lent itself to oral transmission.

Los Tucanes de Tijuana - Tesoros de Coleccion Corridos    (flac  263mb)
 
01 Clave Privada 3:12
02 El Centenario 2:35
03 Masacre en Vallarta 3:40
04 La Fuga del Ceja Güera 2:30
05 Socias de la Mafia 2:49
06 El Caqui 2:42
07 Soy Pararandero 2:55
08 La Muerte de un Traficante 3:11
09 El Promotor de Box 3:48
10 El Jabali 3:00
11 El Fantasma 3:41

Los Tucanes de Tijuana - Tesoros de Coleccion Corridos (ogg  93mb)

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Los Tucanes de Tijuana - Tesoros de Coleccion Corridos 2 (flac  263mb)

12 Mision Especial 3:08
13 El Gallo Ahogado 3:23
14 El Balido de Mi Ganado 3:11
15 Suerte Marcada 2:46
16 El Comandante de Interpol 2:38
17 Juan Jose Rodriguez 3:22
18 De Mexico Soy 2:37
19 Soy de Durango 2:35
20 La Fuga de Clemente 3:06
21 El Tesoro 3:15
22 El Benefactor de Colima 3:31
23 El Gallo 3:42

Los Tucanes de Tijuana - Tesoros de Coleccion Corridos 2  (ogg  116mb)

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For those unaware of the greatness of Venezuelan conductor Aldemaro Romero, we could compare him with the better known Esquivel. Romero and Esquivel had more than one thing in common. In addition to being piano virtuosos with a futuristic sense for popular music revitalized with vocal arrangements and original instrumentation, they each experimented in the recording studio and maintained a mutual admiration and friendship. Probably the rarest album from Aldemaro Romero is this homage to traditional and popular Mexican songs, with the Pop singer Monna Bell on vocals. The musicians (well-skilled Jazz players from Mexico) were free to bring in any idea to the studio and to improvise during the recordings. The result was an explosion of tonalities that, in spite of being essentially popular traditions, revealed something exceedingly unique cosmopolitan and modern. La Onda Nueva en Mexico has remained a cult record among those searching for rare grooves because of its completely unique concept of combining traditional Mexican music arranged by a cosmopolitan Venezuelan influenced by Bossa Nova, and orchestrated by Mexican jazz musicians, all on one record!

  Monna Bell y Aldemaro Romero - La Onda Nueva En Mexico ( flac  265mb)

01 Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra 3:17
02 La Bamba 3:30
03 Cucurrucuccu Paloma 3:47
04 El Balaju 2:35
05 Cielito Lindo 3:32
06 La Bikina 2:35
07 Guadalajara 4:17
08 Xochimilco 3:29
09 El Jarabe Loco 2:16
10 La Malagüeña 3:36
11 La Negra 3:27
12 Tres Consejos 2:52

  Monna Bell y Aldemaro Romero - La Onda Nueva En Mexico (ogg   86mb)

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RhoDeo 1842 Aetix

Hello, last week a commenter noted i should post some Belgian Aetix, clearly not a regular then, but nevermind i still had some Belgians on the backburner...


Today's artists are all from Belgium, as true reflection there's a Walloon, A Fleming  and an immigrant the latter is the main star here ah yes the world loves those petite girls... ......N'Joy

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Roger Jouret started out as the drummer for the group Hubble Bubble, which is one of the first Belgian punk bands. (note: being the first, certainly does not imply being the foremost, a title which is reserved for the Kids). Together with producer Lou Depryck he created the persona of Plastic Bertrand, a jolly satire on the safety-pin image of punk (the name he got from Bert Bertrand, punk-journalist and later on singer of The Bowling Balls).

A year later he made what would be one of the best selling singles by a Belgian artist ever : "ça plane pour moi" (all's well for me or This life's for me). This production and composition by fellow Belgian Lou de Pryck was an inspired attempt to capture the punk-spirit and still make big bucks out of it. According to Oor's Pop Music Encyclopedia, the song became "the laughing stock of the world's punk scene". Still, Rolling Stone (the Magazine) classified "ça plane pour moi" in the top 100 of best rock songs ever.

Or, as David Fricke says it on the Trouser Press website : "ça Plane pour Moi" is truly great dumbness--Bertrand singing verbose, seemingly nonsensical French lyrics over a classic three-chord Ramones roar with Spectorish saxes and a winning falsetto "oooh-weee-oooh" on the chorus. The Album An 1 (year 1) also contains more of the hilarious same--a spirited remake of the Small Faces' "Sha La La La Lee" and "Wha! Wha!," wherein Bertrand does barnyard animal imitations.

Since that, Bertrand has continued to make music, with considerably less success though. His 2nd album "Je t'fais un plan" (I'll draw you a map) and the third release "L'album" moved his musical direction steadily toward the new-wave scene, with exercises in reggae and synth pop in between.In 1988, Plastic Bertrand smelled some money once again when the Belgian New Beat-dance craze came about. His "Slave to the beat" was one of the more successful singles of this form of music (more than 50.000 copies sold).

 Plastic Bertrand - An 1 (flac  260mb)

01 Le Petit Tortillard 2:12
02 Bambino 2:02
03 Naif-Song 2:52
04 Ca Plane Pour Moi 2:58
05 Sha La La La Lee 2:08
06 Pognon Pognon 2:50
07 Dance Dance 2:35
08 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 2:20
09 Pogo Pogo 2:38
10 Wha! Wha! (Je Suis Un Chien, Nous Sommes Des Chiens, Vous Etes Des Chiens!) 5:18
11 Solo Naif-Song 0:35
Bonus
12 Ça Plane Pour Moi (Instrumental) 3:03
13 Ça Plane Pour Moi (Remix) 3:01

Plastic Bertrand - An 1     (ogg  86mb)

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Lio (born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos, 17 June 1962) is a Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s.  In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a family friend. She took her stage name, Lio, from a character in the Barbarella comic books by Jean-Claude Forest. In 1979, together with songwriter Jay Alanski, she and Duvall began working with Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman from the electro-trio Telex. "Le Banana Split", which sold over 1 million copies, and "Amoureux solitaires", a song originally by punk rock band Stinky Toys. Both songs rose to the top of many pop charts in France, and Moulin and Lacksman also produced her self-titled first album.

In 1982 the American music duo Ron and Russell Mael, of Sparks, worked with her on the album Suite sixtine, on which some of her previous songs were translated into English. Suite sixtine was compiled and art directed by Ralph Alfonso for Attic Records Canada, where it was originally released. Her second album, Amour toujours, was produced by Alain Chamfort and released in 1983. The same year, she first appeared on the screen in Chantal Akerman's film Golden Eighties, a lighthearted, humorous French pop musical about the people who work together in a Parisian shopping center. Lio plays a carefree hairdresser in the movie.

In 1985, she met record company executive and producer Michel Esteban, of ZE Records. She continued to have hit singles in Europe, including "Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes", and travelled to Los Angeles with Esteban to record her next album Pop model. Several of the tracks were co-produced by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground, and the album produced the hits "Fallait pas commencer", "Je casse tout ce que je touche", and "Chauffeur". In 1988, after she had given birth to a daughter with Esteban, she resumed her acting career, starring in Claude Lelouch's film Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté. The Lio-Esteban partnership produced another album, Can can, recorded in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. She also designed a fashion collection for the European department store chain Prisunic....more up next

 Lio - Lio  (flac  348mb)
 
01 Amicalement Vôtre 2:44
02 J'Obtiens Toujours Ce Que Je Veux 2:39
03 Comix Discomix 3:54
04 La Panthère Rose 3:16
05 You Go To My Head 2:35
06 Amoureux Solitaires 3:32
07 Si Belle Et Inutile 3:30
08 Bébé Vampire 2:43
09 Speedy Gonzales 3:15
10 La Petite Amazone 3:14
11 Le Banana Split 2:35
12 Oz 2:15

Lio - Lio     (ogg  98mb)

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Lio appeared in three films in 1990 and 1991, Chambre à part, Sans un cri, and Après l'amour. Her 1991 album, Des fleurs pour un caméléon, was produced by Étienne Daho, she had already contributed vocals for one of Daho's earliest and biggest hits, "Week-End À Rome". Daho was given carte blanche in the studio because Lio was busy shooting a film; however, when his work was over, he showed no interest in promoting the album with her, limiting the success of the album. Her next album, Wandatta, presenting a more mature approach in contrast with her previous image, and with a sleeve designed by Guy Peellaert, was released in 1995. However, it was relatively unsuccessful, and she withdrew for a time to live near Angoulême with her partner and children. In 1998, she recorded with Esteban in Cuba, and in 1999 she appeared in 50 performances of the French adaptation of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, a musical staged at the Folies Bergère. She had two kids that year. She released the single "Je suis comme je suis" and the album Chante Prévert containing interpretations of the poems of Jacques Prévert, in 2000. After performing the songs on tour throughout France, Europe and North Africa, she released the live album Cœur de rubis in 2004. She also appeared in over 250 performances of the theater play Le Bébé, an adaptation of a book by Marie Darrieussecq staged by Marc Goldberg.

Lio has been busy on the breeding front too she has six children: Nubia (born September 1987), Igor (born 1994), Esméralda (born 1995), Léa and Garance (born 1999), and Diego (born the 21 of May 2003).

Since 2008, Lio has been a judge on the French "pop idol" show Nouvelle Star. In 2009, she returned to music with the rock band Phantom. In 2011, she became a judge on The Voice Belgique. In 2014, she gave an acoustic rendition of several songs by the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi at the Archiduc café in central Brussels.In March 2018, Lio released her new album Lio Canta Caymmi on the label Crammed Discs. It consists of half-Portuguese, half-French covers of songs by the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi. It was the first time she recorded an entire album in Portuguese, her mother tongue.

  Lio - Best Of   (flac  276mb)

01 Amoureux Solitaire 3:39
02 Mona Lisa 2:56
03 La Reine Des Pommes 3:34
04 Petite Amazone 3:14
05 Speedy Gonzales 3:15
06 La Vérite Toute Nue 3:09
07 Suite Sixtine 3:41
08 Banana Split 2:33
09 Amicalement Votre 2:45
10 Baby Lou 4:06
11 Zip A Doo Wah 3:25
12 Sage Comme Une Image 2:40
13 Plus Je T'Embrasse 2:16
14 Si Belle Et Inutile 3:26

  Lio - Best Of  (ogg   104mb)

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It was summer 1982 when Luc Van Acker wrote the first songs The fear in my heart and Jump and shout . They were originally released as a 12 inch and became quite succesful on a cult level. As a result he even won a press prize as Best New Artist.

His first solo album was Taking Snapshots. This album was recorded in his home in Tienen (Belgium) and he distributed it by driving around Europe with several hundred copies in his car, begging record stores to buy as many as possible. This was followed by the mini-album Zas Buddhist. It was at this time he decided to become more professional and he signed a record deal. While touring as a member of the Belgian band Arbeid Adelt in autumn 1982 he did some production work (in between shows) for an Anna Domino album (East/West). It was then that he was introduced to Blaine Reininger of Tuxedo Moon (USA) who played violin on three tracks. Anna Domino and Luc co-wrote four songs which seem to have the magic touch that makes a song a hit.

He met Dave Allen after a Shriekback (UK) concert at Plan K in Brussels. He played him some of his music and ended playing guitar on Shriekback's album Jam Science. Together they started what was to be a dance studio project called Noise Abroad. As on most other tracks on that album they got a lot of help from Brian Nevill (Pig Bag - UK) who played drums, piano and sax. Also Ian Caple engineered most of it and was responsible for the amazing string arrangements on Heart And Soul. Dave supplied the solid bass lines and convinced David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel Band) it was an international career move to play guitar on a Belgium record.

For the finishing touch his good friend Jean-Marie Aerts (TC Matic - Belgium) came along to record some overdubs and give the mixes the production they needed. Kevin Mulligan (Talk Back - UK) wandered in from the studio next door and played rhythm guitar on Zanna. Gaby Lang supplied some exotic backing vocals on The Ship and Heart and Soul while her manager Rose looked through a porno magazine and gave us a discount.

After the release of The Ship he put a live band together and did 56 concerts in Europe. At the D.N.A. club in Brussels he met Richard 23 from Front 242 (Belgium) who put him on the phone with Al Jourgensen of Ministry (USA), which resulted in his being on a plane to Chicago. Having lost all sense of reality he discovered he had become a member of The Revolting Cocks.

He toured The States for a couple of years with The Cocks and Ministry and ran into Dave Allen again in Los Angeles. Together they set up World Domination Records and Luc's own career got back on its feet.

 Luc Van Acker - Taking Snapshots Vol. 1 (flac  281mb)

01 Introduction Fanfara 1:49
02 Moments During A Lifetime 0:39
03 Taking Live Serious 2:48
04 Try To Say Something 3:34
05 Fanfara 1:17
06 Find A Way 3:10
07 China 0:54
08 Vision One 1:40
09 Freezing 2:05
10 African Medicin Man 1:13
11 It's A One Day Chance 2:24
12 Frozen Tears 2:52
13 Forced Into Light 2:44
14 Take Her Away 1:14
15 Vision Two 1:39
16 What's Downtown 2:27
17 Business 2:50
18 Outro Fanfara 2:55

 Luc Van Acker - Taking Snapshots Vol. 1  (ogg   97mb)

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RhoDeo 1842 Supernatural 2

Hello, in accordance with the upcoming autumnal days when the light is fading, the supernatural manifest and us humans start to shiverrrr


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Robert Westall (1929-1993) is one of the best modern writers of ghost stories in the tradition of the great M.R. James, and The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, which won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award, is one of his finest. Originally published back in 1991, the novella is one creepy story about a steeplejack working on the towers and steeple of Muncaster Cathedral. Joe Clarke wondered why he had the fortune to get this good paying job, (the repairs to the cathedral). How could everyone else not be available? But as so many of us do, he set aside his questions and set to work. Get 'er done, right? As it turns out though, those other steeplejacks turned down this job for a good reason-one that Joe is soon to discover. ...... N Joy

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The Wheatstone Pond may be short-lived, but is told with a dry wit and competent realism that you don't normally find in super natural stories. It is similar to John Wyndham's approach to stories of this nature, which focuses more on the characters and their reaction to the events of the book, rather than the events themselves. Westall adds his own sense of a dull and listless London to the mix, ditching the bustling city atmosphere of thrillers and action novels and describing the quiet streets and buildings of residential areas in a way the reader can relate to. It's sets the mood perfectly for this bleak but homely story of residents as a nearby pond is drained by local authorities. Seven suicides in five years. It's more than coincidence. The Wheatstone Pond is a killer. Everyone knows the Pond should be filled in, but first it has to be drained. The beguiling Hermione from the City Toy Museum is intent on excavating the wrecks of a hundred years of model boats. But there's more down there, under the evil black slime, than they bargained for - a hundred years of a city's guilty secrets, and much, much worse.

When an archaeological dig begins at the Wheatstone Pond, nasty events occur. Violence and aggression build up in the people who work there, the corpse of a baby is found, and a motorbike salvaged from the water carries its new owner to a fatal accident. Some sort of evil is clearly at work. This is a story where Westall draws on his own experience as an antique dealer to combine past and present, as he often liked to do, with supernatural forces.




This BBC radio drama is a treat for fan of old-school supernatural horror. Starring John Duttine and dramatised from Westall's story by Martin Reed.


Robert Westall - The Wheatstone Pond ( 60min mp3  39mb)

Once an Edwardian boating haven, the Wheatstone Pond has aquired a dark and chilling atmosphere. After a tragic suicide the pond is drained and some rather unusual artefacts begin to emerge.

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previously

Robert Westall - The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral ( 87min mp3  60mb)

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RhoDeo 1842 Re-Ups 160

Hello,



8 correct requests for this week, and 1 too early, whatever another batch of 28 re-ups (8. gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to October 14th... N'Joy

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4x Sundaze Back In Flac ( Meredith Monk - Songs From The Hill/Tablet, Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music, Meredith Monk - Turtle Dreams, Meredith Monk - Do You Be)

1x Beats Back In Flac (Akufen - My Way)


4x Roots NOW in Flac (VA - UB40 - Present Arms, UB40 - Present Arms in Dub, Musical Youth - Anthology)


4x Aetix Back In Flac (The Selecter - Too Much Pressure, The Selecter - Celebrate The Bullet, The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It, The Beat - Peel Sessions & Live Boston)


6x Sundaze Back in Flac (Mick Karn (Feat David Sylvian) - Buoy, Karn, Torn & Bozzio - Polytown, Mick Karn - The Tooth Mother, Mick Karn - Karn's Collector's Edition,  Mick Karn - Titles, Dalis Car - The Waking Hour )


4x Roots Back In Flac (Lalo Schifrin - O.S.T. The Liquidator, Lalo Schifrin - O.S.T. Cool Hand Luke, Lalo Schifrin - Music Mission Impossible, Lalo Schifrin - O.S.T. Bullitt  )


3x Aetix Back in Flac (The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy, The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic , The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead )


3x Roots Back in Flac ( Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close & Why Black Man Dey Suffer, Fela Kuti - Coffin For Head of State + Unknown Soldier, Fela Kuti & Egypt '80 - Underground System)


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Sundaze 1842

Hello, we leave the Bristol connection today however there is a Matt Elliott connection here, although that becomes apparent on next week posting of today's artist...

Today's Artist with his whimsical, melancholy music, has become a sought-after composer, not only for his soundtrack work, but in his own right. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz, and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences, his deceptively simple style has been likened to Chopin, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, and Michael Nyman. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter. The Paris-based composer became popular outside his native country for his score to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, but like most seemingly overnight successes, he had been working for years before the film's success brought him international acclaim......N'Joy

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Tiersen was born in Brest in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France, in 1970, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. He started learning piano at the age of four, violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne. In the early 1980s when he was a teenager, he was influenced by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division. In 1983, at the age of 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. Tiersen was then living in Rennes, home to the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, held annually in December, which gave him the opportunity to see acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. A few years later, when his band broke up, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording music solo with a synthesizer, a sampler, and a drum machine.

Before releasing film scores under his own name, Tiersen recorded background music for a number of plays and short films. In the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment, recording music alone with an electric guitar, a violin, and an accordion, guided by his vision of “a musical anarchy”. By the end of that summer, Tiersen had recorded over forty tracks, which would form most of his first two albums. Tiersen's debut album, La Valse des monstres, limited to 1,000 copies only, was released in June 1995 by independent record label Sine Terra Firma, and then it was reissued by Nancy-based record label Ici d'ailleurs in 1998 as the second album of its catalogue. The 17-track album was inspired by and written for the theatrical adaptations of Tod Browning's 1932 cult classic Freaks, and Yukio Mishima's 1955 version of Noh play The Damask Drum. One year later, in April 1996, he released Rue des cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion, and mandolin. The title track, sung by French soloist singer Claire Pichet, was used the following year for the Palme d'Or nominated French drama film The Dreamlife of Angels, and several tracks received greater exposure five years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amélie. Tiersen played almost all the instruments both in the studio and in concert, and this gave him a theatrical appeal as a one-man show, which allowed him to perform, among others, at the 1996 edition of the Avignon Festival, the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest.

Tiersen rose to domestic fame upon the release of his third studio album, Le Phare (English: The Light House) in 1998. The album was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ushant (Breton: Enez Eusa, French: Ouessant) at the south-western end of the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of territorial France, where Tiersen spent two months living in a rented house. At night, he watched the Phare du Creach, one of the most powerful lighthouses in the world, and was fascinated by the stunning scenery repeated every night. Le Phare, which featured Claire Pichet, French singer and songwriter Dominique A, and French drummer and percussionist Sacha Toorop, sold over 160,000 copies, confirming Tiersen's status as one of the most innovative artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums. Three songs from this album, "La Dispute", "La Noyee", and "Sur le fil" were used later for the soundtrack of Amélie, while "L'Homme aux bras ballants", written and composed by Dominique A, was also the soundtrack to Laurent Gorgiard's 1997 short animation film of the same title. Its single, "Monochrome", sung by Dominique A, was a radio hit and propelled the album. Le Phare was his first album to chart climbing to number 50 in the French Albums Chart.

In that period Tiersen provided a new arrangement and played strings, vibraphone, bell, mandolin, electric guitar, and bass guitar for the song "À ton étoile" by French rock band Noir Désir on their 1998 remix album One Trip/One Noise,[citation needed] recorded background music for the award-winning and multi-nominated film The Dreamlife of Angels,[for André Téchiné's Alice et Martin, released in 1998, and Christine Carrière's Qui plume la lune?, released in 1999, and also recorded Bästard ~ Yann Tiersen, a 3-track extended play released in 1998 in collaboration with French electronic rock band Bästard, and his first live album, Black Session: Yann Tiersen. The live album was recorded on 2 December 1998 as the opening act of the Rencontres Trans Musicales in the Salle Serreau at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, for the C'est Lenoir show broadcast on the French public radio station France Inter. The album, which features Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and frontman of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy Neil Hannon, singer and songwriter Bertrand Cantat of Noir Désir, singer and illustrator Françoiz Breut, anglophone French rock band The Married Monk (Christian Quermalet, Philippe Lebruman, Etienne Jaumet, Nicolas Courret), French folk rock group Têtes Raides (Christian Olivier, Grègoire Simon, Pascal Olivier, Anne-Gaëlle Bisquay, Serge Bégout, Jean-Luc Millot, and Edith Bégou), the string quartet Quatuor à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, and author Mathieu Boogaerts, as well as his usual collaborators and friends, Claire Pichet and Dominique A, was recorded by France International, mastered by Radio France, and released in CD format one year later on 2 November 1999.

In 1999, Tiersen with The Married Monk, Claire Pichet, and Olivier Mellano, released his first collaboration album, Tout est calme. The 26 minutes, 10 tracks mini album peaked at number 45 on the French Albums Chart. The album produced one single, "Les Grandes marées", and Tiersen also featured on The Divine Comedy's single "Gin Soaked Boy" released on that same year, on three tracks for Françoiz Breut's second studio album Vingt à Trente Mille Jours, and on Têtes Raides' Gratte-poil, both released in 2000.

Tiersen remained relatively unknown outside France until the release of his score for the acclaimed film Amélie (English: The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain) in 2001. French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet had something else in mind for the film score, but one day one of his production assistants put on a CD of Tiersen, and the director found it absolutely superb. Jeunet bought all of Tiersen's albums, and then contacted him to see if the Breton composer was interested in writing the film score for Amélie. In two weeks, Tiersen composed nineteen pieces for the film and also allowed the production to take anything they wanted from his other records. Amélie received great critical acclaim and was a box-office success. The film went on to win the Best Film award at the European Film Awards, four César Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, two BAFTA Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. The soundtrack was a mixture of both new and previously released material, and Tiersen was also the recipient of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film, and of the World Soundtrack Academy award. The soundtrack album charted in many countries, including the number one position on the French Albums Chart.

While he was writing the film score for Amélie Tiersen was also preparing his fifth studio album L'Absente. The album was characterized by several contributions including 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, viola player Bertrand Lambert, violinists Yann Bisquay and Sophie Naboulay, Natacha Régnier, and saxophonist Grégoire Simon, and long-time collaborators Dominique A, Christine Ott, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon, Têtes Raides, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, and Sacha Toorop. The album, which was released on 5 June 2001 through EMI France, was preceded by two promotional singles for "A quai" and "Bagatelle" respectively. Tiersen provided strings and vibraphone to two tracks, "Roma Amor" and "Holidays", featured on R/O/C/K/Y, third studio album by The Married Monk.

At this time he was married to Belgian actress Natacha Régnier, co-star of The Dreamlife of Angels. Régnier became a singer and Tiersen wrote three songs for her including his arrangement of Georges Brassens' "Le Parapluie", a song featured on the tribute album Les Oiseaux de passage, released in 2001. That same year they went on tour in France and abroad. They have a daughter, Lise, born in 2002, but they have since been divorced. In this period, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet. From 15 to 17 February 2002, Tiersen with many of the collaborators who participated in the recording sessions for L'Absente plus Claire Pichet, violinists Nicolas Stevens and Renaud Lhoest, bassist Jean-François Assy, viola player Olivier Tilkin, and uilleann pipes, bagpipes, and low whistle player Ronan Le Bars, performed live at the Cité de la Musique (English: City of Music) in Paris. Part of these three concerts went on to form Tiersen's second live album C'était ici (It Was Here), which was released through EMI France on 30 September 2002.

Tiersen's skills as a composer of film scores were much in demand, and the soundtrack for Amélie was soon followed by the film score for Good Bye, Lenin!, a 2003 German tragicomedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker The film was both a commercial and a critical success and won several awards including the César Award for Best Film from the European Union, Best Film at the European Film Awards, the German Film Awards for Outstanding Film, Best European Film at the Goya Awards, Best Foreign Language Film for the London Film Critics' Circle, and it was also listed in the Empire magazine 2010's list of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" Tiersen was the recipient of the German Film Awards for Outstanding Music. On 15 November 2003, Tiersen with Stuart A. Staples, the lead singer of indie band Tindersticks, actress and singer Jane Birkin, singer and vocalist for Cocteau Twins Elizabeth Fraser, singer and songwriter Christophe Miossec, and Dominique A released 3 titres inédits au profit de la FIDH (3 New Tracks for the Benefit of FIDH), a 3-track CD that was part of the On Aime, On Aide benefit collection for raising funds for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

Tiersen's list of collaborators continues to grow album after album and in October 2004 released Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright, a collaboration album with American singer-songwriter Shannon Wright, and, in the same year, he is featured on The Divine Comedy's album Absent Friends. In 2005, Tiersen released his fifth studio album Les Retrouvailles. The album features several collaborators including the Orchestre National de Paris, singers Elizabeth Fraser, Jane Birkin, Stuart A. Staples, Dominique A, and Miossec, strings players Jean-François Assy, Frederic Dessus, Guillaume Fontanarosa, Bertrand Causse, Anne Causse Biragnet, Armelle Legoff, Frédéric Haffner, flute player Elliott, drummer Ludovic Morillon, and ondes Martenot player Christine Ott Les Retrouvailles also includes a DVD short film entitled La Traversée, directed by Aurélie du Boys, which documents the making of the album in Ushant, and incorporates an animated video for the non-album track, "Le Train", and also live versions of a handful of songs. The album produced a single, "Kala", sung by Elizabeth Fraser, and Tiersen also played piano on Staples' solo debut album, Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04. The subsequent world tour of 2006 replaced the multi-instrumental ensemble with electric guitars and an ondes Martenot, and produced his third live album, On Tour, which was released together with a DVD, directed by Aurélie du Boys, about the tour, in November 2006. In 2006, he also released two singles, "La Mancha" and "La Rade", and he was featured on The Endless Rise of the Sun, third studio album by electronic group Smooth, Raides à la ville extended play by Katel, and 13m² by David Delabrosse.

The year 2008 saw his return after a five years absence as a composer of film scores when he provided the background music for Tabarly, a Pierre Marcel's documentary film about the French sailor, two-time champion of the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, and father of French yachting Éric Tabarly. The documentary was released on June 2008, exactly ten years after Tabarly's death. Éric Tabarly was lost on the night of 12–13 June 1998 at Irish Sea when he was struck by a gaff of his Pen Duick during heavy swell and knocked overboard from his yacht near Wales while on his way to the Fife Regatta in Scotland. His body was recovered five weeks later off the coast of Ireland by a French fishing trawler. The documentary, narrated by Tabarly himself, traces his sporting career until his last meal in Ushant. Before the end of the decade, Tiersen also contributed to Christine Ott's debut solo album Solitude Nomade, and to Miossec's seventh studio album Finistériens.

October 2010 saw the release of Tiersen’s sixth studio album titled Dust Lane. The album was two years in the making and was largely recorded in Ushant, France. Further parts were recorded in the Philippines. The album is preoccupied with mortality; during the recording sessions Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend. The recordings started out as simple song based tracks with Tiersen playing acoustic guitar, mandolin and bouzouki. New layers were added to the recordings creating a more complex sound. Then an array of vintage synthesisers and electric guitars were added to create further textures. The album was released by Mute Records in Europe and Anti Records in the US. The record was promoted in a tour beginning in October 2010, starting in New York City. Dust Lane was preceded by the release of the vinyl EP Palestine and by the single for "Ashes". In 2010, Tiersen also contributed to the tribute album to cross-genre, experimental music group Coil The Dark Age of Love by This Immortal Coil, a one-off tribute formation, and to Li(f)e, the fourth solo studio album by hip-hop artist Sage Francis.

October 2011 saw the European release of his seventh studio album, Skyline. The nine-track album, a follow on from his Dust Lane, was once again recorded at Tiersen's home on the island of Ushant in the south-western end of the English Channel, with further parts recorded in Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, and Nashville. It was subsequently mixed by producer Ken Thomas in Leeds, and mastered by Ray Staff in London. The album produced the singles for "Monuments" and "I'm Gonna Live Anyhow". On 18 February 2012, Tiersen with Lionel Laquerriere, and Thomas Poli, presented his side project, Elektronische Staubband, at La Route du Rock music festival in Saint-Malo. It was about an hour of krautrock, electronic, and experimental music involving a dozen of synthesizers and analog keyboards with the first three pieces of the set list taken from Dust Lane and the remaining five from Skyline. Tiersen was also chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival on March 2012 in Minehead, England. Skyline was released in North America via ANTI- Records on 17 April 2012, and it was followed by the Skyline Tour with dates in the United States, Canada, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, France, Slovak Republic, Austria, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

On 3 August 2016, Yann Tiersen got married to Emilie Quinquis in the island of Ouessant, Brittany. Emilie Quinquis (TINY FEET) herself statet, that they already got married at 31 July 2016. Since April 6th, 2017 they have a  son

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La Valse des monstres (The Monsters’ Waltz) is the first album released by Yann Tiersen. It includes several pieces he wrote for short films and the accompaniment for plays in addition to original pieces. The first eleven tracks were written for the theatrical adaptations of Freaks, a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Tod Browning, and the last six pieces for the theatrical representation of the classic Japanese musical drama The Damask Drum rewritten by Japanese author, poet and playwright, Yukio Mishima in 1955. Only 1,000 copies were pressed when it was released in June 1995 by Sine Terra Firma, and then it was reissued by Ici d'ailleurs in 1998 in CD and LP formats. Two tracks, "La Valse des monstres" and "Le Banquet", found a wider audience six years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's acclaimed film Amélie

Yann Tiersen - La Valse Des Monstres (flac  262mb)

01 Mouvement Introductif 2:04
02 La Valse Des Monstres 3:42
03 Frida 1:32
04 Quimper 94 2:52
05 Ballendaï 2:16
06 Comptine D'Été N°17 2:12
07 Cléo Au Trapèze 2:06
08 La Valse Des Monstres 2:08
09 Le Banquet 1:32
10 Comptine D'Été N°17 2:32
11 Mouvement Introductif 5:36
12 La Rue 1:22
13 Iwakichi 3:13
14 Hanako 2:48
15 La Plaisanterie 2:58
16 Le Compteur 4:02
17 Mouvement Introductif 1:49

Yann Tiersen - La Valse Des Monstres  (ogg 113mb)

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Rue des cascades (English: Cascade Street) is the second studio album by the musician and composer Yann Tiersen. It was released through Sine Terra Firma in 1996, and subsequently reissued in 1998, 2001, and 2009 through Ici, d'ailleurs... and Virgin Records in CD and double LP formats. The album, with the exclusion of two pieces, "Naomi" and "La Vie quotidienne", is a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion, mandolin, and other conventional and unconventional musical instruments such as an old typewriter in "Pas si simple". The title track, which was used about one year later for the film score of the Palme d'Or nominated French drama film The Dreamlife of Angels, was sung by French soloist singer Claire Pichet, who also provided vocals on the track "Naomi", a song that features words from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Kaddish". François-Xavier Schweyer played the cello on "C'était ici" and "La Fenêtre". Three tracks, "J'y suis jamais allé", "Pas si simple", and "Soir de fête", will find a wider audience five years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's acclaimed film Amélie.
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Yann Tiersen - Rue Des Cascades  (flac 268mb)

01 J'Y Suis Jamais Allé 1:35
02 Rue Des Cascades (Voc Claire Pichet) 4:02
03 Pas Si Simple 1:54
04 Comptine D'Été N°2 2:13
05 Comptine D'Été N°3 1:53
06 Déjà Loin 2:53
07 La Chambre 1:48
08 Mouvement Introductif 2:22
09 La Muette 3:35
10 Naomi (Voc Claire Pichet) 4:06
11 Soir De Fête 2:54
12 Le Vieux En Veut Encore 1:44
13 Toujours Là 1:10
14 C'Était Ici 1:38
15 Prière N°2 1:27
16 Comptine D'Été N°1 2:17
17 La Fenêtre 2:50
18 Prière N°3 1:03
19 La Pièce Vide 1:42
20 La Vie Quotidienne 7:36

Yann Tiersen - Rue Des Cascades   (ogg  115mb)

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Le Phare (The Lighthouse) is the third studio album by French composer Yann Tiersen. This was the artist's breakthrough album. He collaborated with distinguished French songwriter Dominique A (who wrote and provided vocals to both "Monochrome" and "Les Bras de mer"). It is typical of Tiersen's work for violin, mandolin, accordion and piano to feature heavily. Also a trademark feature of his style is unusual instrumentation, including a bicycle wheel, typewriters and saucepans. Three songs from this album, "La Dispute", "La Noyée", and "Sur le fil" were used later for Tiersen's soundtrack for the film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. "L'Homme aux bras ballants" is also the soundtrack to a short film by the same name by Laurent Gorgiard. "Sur le fil" has become a live favourite, normally only the violin section performed with great intensity, sometimes even breaking many hairs on the bow.

Yann Tiersen - Le Phare  (flac 239mb)

01 Le Quartier 2:01
02 La Rupture 2:49
03 Monochrome 3:16
04 La Dispute 4:14
05 L'Arrivée Sur L'Île 1:03
06 La Noyée 2:23
07 Le Fromveur 1:20
08 L'Homme Aux Bras Ballants 5:05
09 Sur Le Fil 7:28
10 Les Jours Heureux 2:10
11 La Crise 1:37
12 Les Bras De Mer 3:10
13 La Chute 5:48
14 L'Effondrement 1:32

Yann Tiersen - Le Phare   (ogg  107mb)

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Black Session is the first live album of French avant-garde musician and composer Yann Tiersen. The live album was recorded by France International on 2 December 1998 as the opening act of the Rencontres Trans Musicales in the Salle Serreau at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, for the C'est Lenoir show broadcast on the French public radio station France Inter. It was subsequently mastered by Radio France, and released in CD format one year later on 2 November 1999. The album features Tiersen with Claire Pichet, Dominique A, Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and frontman of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy Neil Hannon, singer and songwriter Bertrand Cantat of Noir Désir, singer and illustrator Françoiz Breut, anglophone French rock band The Married Monk , French folk rock group Têtes Raides, the string quartet Quatuor à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, and author Mathieu Boogaerts

Yann Tiersen - Black Session (flac  276mb)

01 Sur Le Fil 3:07
02 Geronimo (Voc Neil Hannon) 1:56
03 Life On Mars (Voc Neil Hannon) 3:09
04 La Rupture (Voc Claire Pichet) 2:44
05 Monochrome (Voc Dominique A.) 3:29
06 Les Bras De Mer (Voc Dominique A.) 3:07
07 Roma Amor (Feat The Married Monk, Voc Christian Quermalet) 4:00
08 Tout Est Calme (Voc Yann Tiersen) 3:27
09 A Ton Etoile (Voc Bertrand Cantat) 3:46
10 La Crise (Voc Claire Pichet) 2:35
11 Les Forges (Voc Françoiz Breut) 4:01
12 La Noyée 2:26
13 Ginette (Voc Christian Olivier) 4:49
14 La Terrasse (Voc Yann Tiersen) 3:40
15 Bon Voyage (Voc Mathieu Boogaerts) 2:25
16 Le Quartier 2:17

Yann Tiersen - Black Session  (ogg 119mb)

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