Yann Tiersen Announces Kerber - The Film, An Album Companion Experience

YANN TIERSEN   ANNOUNCES KERBER-THE FILM A VISUAL AND SONIC JOURNEY ACROSS USHANT ISLAND PRESENTED BY LIVENOW   SHARES VISUALIZER FOR “POULL BOJER”   NEW ALBUM KERBER OUT AUGUST 27

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LIVENow is delighted to present Yann Tiersen: Kerber - The Film, a unique cinematic expression and celebration of his soon-to-be-released album, Kerber.   Set in his studio and landmarks across the island of Ushant, this film thoughtfully fuses music and landscape together, creating a world where the tangible and ethereal are one. Passes for Yann Tiersen: Kerber -  The Film, are on sale now via LIVENow, for broadcast on Thursday, August 26 at 3PM ET.     This summer, Yann Tiersen releases Kerber, a new chapter in the artist’s work, one that begins with his most overtly electronic material to date. To celebrate its release, he has partnered with LIVENow to produce a film that captures Tiersen performing each song from the album, set against the stunning backdrop of Ushant.    Yann Tiersen: Kerber, The Film is produced by Up The Game and directed by Kit Monteith. This film is not only an ode to Ushant, but also to the creative process Tiersen has used to produce Kerber. Tiersen spent much of 2020 producing the album, first writing the piano, and then meticulously transforming and processing the electronic sounds to create immersive soundscapes. Like the album, Kerber, the film has been crafted by merging traditional and modern formats.     Director, Kit Monteith, says “We wanted to document an entirely new sound that Tiersen is developing, using analog electronic systems, redefining piano compositions through experimental sampling and synthesis. We hoped to encapsulate the spirit of this within the context of a dynamic performance film. Featuring new and familiar material I used the 35mm camera as my own analog system to explore and abstract the natural spaces of the island. The blend of these digital and real film elements mirror the mixed organic and electronic approach taken in the musical compositions. The film embraces their differences whilst seeking to find new and strange harmony between them.”    Passes are available now via yanntiersen.live-now.com.   Yann Tiersen also shared a new visualizer by Sam Wiehl for his recent single, “Poull Bojer” – watch here.   Pre-order Kerber here: https://mute.ffm.to/kerber   MORE ABOUT KERBER Kerber marks a new chapter in the Breton artist’s work, one that begins with his most overtly electronic material to date. True to Tiersen’s nuanced and subtle approach, this isn’t a U-turn-like thumping piece of dance music, but instead a beautifully textured, highly immersive and thoughtfully constructed electronic world to step inside of.   It is both an evolution of what has come before as well as a new space to explore. On the new album, the piano is the source, but electronics are the environment that they exist within. Tiersen explains, “You may get this intuitive thinking of, ‘oh it's piano stuff,’ but actually it's not. I worked on piano tracks to begin with but that's not the core of it, they are not important. The context is the most important thing - the piano was a precursor to create something for the electronics to work around.”   Working in The Eskal, the studio he built on Ushant (the island where he lives, located 30 kilometers off the West coast of Brittany in the Celtic Sea), Tiersen’s process for the album’s recording was particularly involved. After spending the spring writing the piano parts, he went on to spend that summer meticulously creating a sample bank for the Elektron Octatrack using these parts as inspiration, following the chord progressions, playing them on instruments such as the Ondes Martenot, mellotron, and harpsichord. These were then subsequently transformed, reshaped, and processed. What then followed, with producer Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten), was three weeks of working with electronics, sampling, re-sampling, and processing sounds to create an engulfing soundscape where the tender tones of piano keys merge with gently pulsing electronics and an intense ambient milieu. MORE ABOUT LIVENOW LIVENow are leaders within the virtual event and experiences space, giving fans access to live and on-demand content across music, sports, fitness and entertainment.    Previous events on LIVENow include Celeste: On With The Show, Live From London, theatre production Our Little Lives: Shakespeare, and an all-new four-part series, Live From Another World, featuring cutting-edge breakthrough bands. The restream of K-Pop sensations Mamamoo and Dua Lipa:Studio 2054 are also available to watch.   Events broadcast by LIVENow include: ·       Ellie Goulding’s “Brightest Blue”, Pete Tong’s “O Come All Ye Ravers”, Gorillaz’ “Song Machine Live from Kong” and American Express UNSTAGED with Maroon 5 and SZA ·       One World: Together At Home concert in support of the World Health Organisations Covid-19 relief efforts ·       Australia vs India Men’s International Test Cricket and Big Bash League ·       Top European football leagues and EURO 2020  ·       RIZIN mixed martial arts  ·       The Heineken Cup and Champions Cup   LIVENow was founded by Leeds United chairman and founder of Aser Ventures, Andrea Radrizzani.   MORE ABOUT UP THE GAME  Up The Game is a global creative agency and production house based in London, focusing on the creation and production of short and long-form films and impactful campaigns with broadcasters, brands and platforms.   Founded by an award-winning creative team with a voracious passion for music and all forms of culture, Up The Game constantly strives to produce beautiful, groundbreaking and attention-grabbing output.   Artists worked with include Jorja Smith, Rihanna, Madonna, Sam Smith, Foals, Kacey Musgraces and many more, with some of its most recent 2021 production credits including Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour Prom' (YouTube), Damon Albarn 'Sublime Boulevards' (YouTube), Live From Another World (LIVENow), 'Masterclass' Live (Spotify) and 'Tonight With Arlo Parks (Amazon Prime Video).   Kerber Tracklisting 1. Kerlann 2. Ar Maner Kozh 3. Kerdrall 4. Ker Yegu 5. Ker al Loch 6. Kerber 7. Poull Bojer   Yann Tiersen 2021-2022 Tour Dates November 9 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre November 10 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre November 12 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom November 13 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre November 14 – Seattle, WA – Neptune November 17 – Chicago, IL – Metro November 18 – Detroit, MI – Crofoot Ballroom November 19 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre November 20 – Montreal, QC – MTelus November 22 – Quebec City, QC – Le Capitole November 23 – Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center November 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel November 27 – Washington, DC – 930 Club January 29 – Stockholm, Sweden – Filadelfia January 30 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Tradgarn January 31 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Opera House February 1 – Malmo, Sweden – Concert House February 2 – Hamburg, Germany – Laeiszhalle February 4 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom February 7 – Milan, Italy – Teatro degli Arcimboldi February 9 – Dusseldorf, Germany – Tonhalle  February 10 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royale  February 12 – London, England – Roundhouse February 14 – Glasgow, Scotland – Royal Concert Hall  February 15 – Manchester, England – Bridgewater Hall  February 18 – Roubaix, France (near Lille) – Le Colisee  February 19 – Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie February 20 – Dijon, France – La Vapeur February 22 – Montpellier, France – Le Corum February 23 – Toulouse, France – Le Bikini  February 24 – Biarritz, France – La Gare du Midi  February 25 – Bordeaux, France – Krakatoa February 26 – La Rochelle, France – La Sirene February 28 – Tours, France – Le Grand Theatre March 1 – Clermont-Ferrand, France – Cooperative de Mai  March 2 – Rouen, France – Le 106   Tickets available here. 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