Dust Lane

Description

Mute are delighted to announce the signing of Yann Tiersen and the release of his brand new, long awaited album, Dust Lane, out October 2010. Yann is one of the most revered French artists of his generation with a reputation first established by his studio albums (which include 1998s Le Phare and 2005s Les Retrouvailles) and cemented by his work on the original film score of Amelie (2001) which earned him widespread recognition.
Produced by Yann and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Rós, M83, Moby), Dust Lane sees Tiersen incorporate vintage electronic sounds and textures into his music for an album he describes as a journey on the dusty lane that leads us to death. Not a sad thing, but like a colourful, sometimes painful, but mostly joyful experience: life!. During its recording, Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend, and the music within embodies what it is to be bereaved. It is also an album about life not as something lost, but something to be lived. Not a sad thing, but a colourful thing an experience sometimes painful, but also joyful, says Tiersen