Elizabeth Fraser - "Underwater"

Weird song that came up after playing The Smile a lot.  Slow vocals and bubbly sound.

From Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, worked with Massive Attack, Yann Tiersen, Craig Armstrong...!

Wim Mertens - "Struggle for Pleasure" (The Belly of an Architect)

Amazing. Yann Tiersen on drugs.

Alexandra Streliski - "INSCAPE"

Quite amazing piano music.

Should watch a live video.

Reminds me a bit of Yann Tiersen and Ludovico Einaudi.

Yann Tiersen - "Skyline" (OST?)

A soundtrack?

Typical Yann Tiersen, with vocals. Not like Amèlie at all, but nice.

Devotchka - "Firetrucks On The Boardwalk" (Live With The Colorado Symphony)

(Soma.fm's Indie channel)

Instrumental? It's amazing. Strong Yann Tiersen feel, while they usually play much more gypsy.

(And a choir... this is turning into a film.)

Judged by a quick search, this is the very original, not preceeded by a version without orchestra.

misc music

* Cults - "the curse" - slow, twangy

Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright
* Dragon Fly - sad, the grey south of autumn. have I heard this before? It's amazing.
* While You Sleep - pretty hard, a bit DAAU ish
* Dried Sea - reminds me Beth Gibbons & Rustinman
* Ode To A Friend - her haunting voice is amazing here... I'm reminded of a sharp voice, but can't think of it.... A song that sounded like pure fear.
* Sound The Bells - fast, dynamic

And also: Wild Flag - "Wild Flag"
girl band, turned it off after the 2nd song. Not bad. Not good.

furthermore: Maybeshewill - "I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone"
instrumental postrock, continuous guitarriffs, fairly uptempo.

update 2011-11-04: Ode To A Friend: the song I was thinking of, is Kirstin Hersh' "The Letter"

Yann Tiersen live @ Belly-Up

First a funny concert by "Breathe Owl Breathe", 2 beardy guys and a girl. Folky, playing funny songs about a dragon and a princess who were penpalls (she didn't know he was a dragon, because his penmanship was really good) and ending with a werewolf-song during which the girl wore a werewolf-hat.

Yann Tiersen was simply amazing. (we saw him outside, on the phone, while having dinner in the Belly-Up's restaurant "the Wilde Note", really should've gone outside and talk to him)

Played almost the whole "Dust Lane" album, hardly stopping inbetween, saying nothing but "thank you" every now and then. Sometimes doing his immense crazy violin stuff ("Sur Le Fil" etc).

The girl from Breathe Owl Breathe joined them on stage for a song. Such a voice she had. No words, just melody. Amazing.

Shivers, more than once. Amazing concert.

Yann Tiersen - "Bagatelle" (On Tour DVD)

Heart-breaking, this version.

3am? melancholy

Yann Tiersen - "Dust Lane"

• "Dust Lane" : "mac-voice" as used by Radiohead, soundscape
• "Chapter 19" : parlando, Tiersen's typical minimalistic pianola-sounds
• "Ashes" : overwhelming, building up, chorus, impressive
• "Till The End" : 1st part is repetitive (in a slightly boring way), but it is followed by a lovely build-up
• "Fuck Me" : if this was called, "baise moi", at least it would have *sounded* slightly Amélie-ish. That was probably the reason to give it this name.

definitely 'harder', not the friendly Amélie sound. But it has accordeons and is beautifully musical.