Yann Tiersen - Monochrome

Artist: Yann Tiersen

Song: Monochrome

Album: Le Phare (1998)

 

Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie. His music is recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments in relatively minimalist compositions, often with a touch of either European classical music or French folk music, using primarily the piano, accordion or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano,ondes martenot, harpsichord and typewriter.

 

Le Phare is a very good place to start if you're looking for more music from Yann Tiersen. Almost all instrumental, three vocal tracks, this album is not completely the same style throughout as Amelie was, but is obviously related. If you're looking for something similar to that, this has it in spades. But, songs like the third Track, Monochrome, which does have vocals quickly became one of my favorite tracks, it has that bittersweet buildup going on that hooked me to begin with. 
This is somber, celebratory, joyful and sad all at once. Lots of accordian, string arrangements, guitar, drums, piano, etc. highly recommended.

 

Anyway, I can try

Anything it's the same circle

That leads to nowhere and I'm tired now.

 

Anyway, I've lost my face,

My dignity, my look,

Everything is gone

And I'm tired now.

 

But don't be scared,

I found a good job and I go to work

Every day on my old bicycle you loved.

 

I am pilling up some unread books under my bed

And I really think I'll never read again.

 

No concentration,

Just a white disorder

Everywhere around me,

You know I'm so tired now.

 

But don't worry

I often go to dinners and parties

With some old friends who care for me,

Take me back home and stay.

 

Monochrome floors, monochrome walls,

Only absence near me,

Nothing but silence around me.

Monochrome flat, monochrome life,

Only absence near me,

Nothing but silence around me.

 

Sometimes I search an event

Or something to remind,

But I've really got nothing in mind.

 

Sometimes I open the windows

And listen people walking in the down streets.

There is a life out there.

 

But don't be scared,

I found a good job and I go to work

Every day on my old bicycle you loved.

 

Anyway, I can try

Anything it's the same circle

That leads to nowhere and I'm tired now.

 

Anyway, I've lost my face,

My dignity, my look,

Everything is gone

And I'm tired now.

 

But don't worry

I often go to dinners and parties

With some old friends who care for me,

Take me back home and stay.

 

Monochrome floors, monochrome walls,

Only absence near me,

Nothing but silence around me.

 

Monochrome flat, monochrome life,

Only absence near me,

Nothing but silence around me.

live