Yann Tiersen

Shares New Track ‘Ker Yegu’

TAKEN FROM KERBER – THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM – OUT 27 AUG 2021

KERBER – THE FILM – SCREENING ON 26 AUG VIA LIVENOW

WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES

INCLUDING LONDON’S ROUNDHOUSE IN FEB 2022

Yann Tiersen has shared a new track, ‘Ker Yegu’, the latest taste of what to expect from his forthcoming album, Kerber – out on 27 August 2021 on Mute.

Directed by Murat Gökmen, who created the mesmerising live session video for ‘Poull Bojer’, the video for ‘Ker Yegu’ gives us further insight into the life and the people of the Breton island of Ushant that Tiersen calls home. A sense of place has often been a central theme in Tiersen’s work – Kerber is named after a chapel in a small village on the island and each track on the album is tied to a place mapping out the immediate landscape that surrounds Tiersen’s home – but this isn’t an exploration of isolation, more an expression of being conscious of your own direct environment and your place within it – a sonic encapsulation of the hyper-local.

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.”

Yann Tiersen will be streaming a unique live performance from Ushant, where he’ll take viewers on a social and visual journey across the island. Director, Kit Monteith, explains: “I used the 35mm camera as my own analogue 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.” 

Yann Tiersen: Kerber – The Film, will stream exclusively on LIVENow from 7pm (BST) on the 26 August 2021, tickets available from yanntiersen.live-now.com

Later this year a worldwide tour will begin in North America with shows in Europe confirmed for 2022. The dates include a performance at London’s Roundhouse, Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall and Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in February 2022.

Yann Tiersen Tour Dates
2021 – North American Tour
9 Nov – Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre
10 Nov – Berkeley, CA The UC Theatre
12 Nov – Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
13 Nov – Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
14 Nov – Seattle, WA Neptune
17 Nov – Chicago, IL Metro
18 Nov – Detroit, MI Crofoot Ballroom
19 Nov – Toronto, ONT Phoenix Concert Hall
20 Nov – Montreal, QUE MTelus
22 Nov – Quebec City, QC Le Capitole
23 Nov – Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center
26 Nov – Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
27 Nov – Washington, DC 930 Club

2022 – European Tour

29 Jan – Stockholm, SE Filadelfia

30 Jan – Gothenburg, SE Tradgarn

31 Jan – Copenhagen, DK Opera House
1 Feb – Malmo SE Concert House

2 Feb –  Hamburg, DE, Laeizhalle

4 Feb – Berlin, DE Tempodrom

7 Feb – Milan, IT Teatro degli Arcimboldi

9 Feb – Dusseldorf, DE Tonhalle 

10 Feb – Brussels, BE Cirque Royale 

12 Feb – London, UK Roundhouse

14 Feb – Glasgow, UK Royal Concert Hall 

15 Feb – Manchester, UK Bridgewater Hall 

18 Feb – Roubaix (near Lille), FR Le Colisee 

19 Feb – Strasbourg, FR La Laiterie

20 Feb – Dijon, FR La Vapeur

22 Feb – Montpellier, FR Le Corum

23 Feb – Toulouse, FR Le Bikini 

24 Feb – Biarritz, FR La Gare du Midi 

25 Feb – Bordeaux, FR Krakatoa

26 Feb – La Rochelle, FR La Sirene

28 Feb – Tours, FR Le Grand Theatre

1 March – Clermont-Ferrand, FR Cooperative de Mai 

2 March- Rouen, FR Le 106 

Kerber is set for release on Mute on 27 August 2021 as a deluxe limited clear vinyl edition with unique artwork, in a PVC sleeve (500 available worldwide), limited edition white vinyl with a poster, and black vinyl (all come with high definition audio download) as well as on CD and digitally.

A series of limited edition bundles (including t-shirt, tote bag, sheet music and poster) are be available from https://www.yanntiersen.com/

‘Ker Yegu’: https://youtu.be/VViKmaYcBS8  

‘Ker al Loch’, directed by Sam Wiehl: https://youtu.be/RHiYco6Sd_k

‘Poull Bojer’: https://youtu.be/dwW1bI6epno

Watch the trailer for Kerber – The Film: https://youtu.be/Krdkk6m1Luo

Pre-order: https://mute.ffm.to/kerber

Pre-save: https://mute.ffm.to/kerber-ps

Kerber Tracklisting

Kerlann

Ar Maner Kozh

Kerdrall

Ker Yegu

Ker al Loch

Kerber

Poull Bojer

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