''For the proposed skyscraper in Paris, see Le Phare (skyscraper).'' ''Le Phare'' () is the third studio album by French composer

Yann Tiersen Yann Pierre Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical ...

. This was the artist's breakthrough album. He collaborated with distinguished French songwriter

Dominique A Dominique Ané (born 6 October 1968), better known as "Dominique A", is a French songwriter and singer. Early life Born on 6 October 1968 in Provins, France, Dominique Ané is the only child of a teacher and a homemaker. He was passionate about ...

(who wrote and provided vocals to both "Monochrome" and "Les Bras de mer"). It is typical of Tiersen's work for violin, mandolin, accordion and piano to feature heavily. Also a trademark feature of his style is unusual instrumentation, including a bicycle wheel, typewriters and saucepans. Three songs from this album, "La Dispute", "La Noyée", and "Sur le fil" were used later for Tiersen's

soundtrack A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television show, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of m ...

for the film '' Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''. "L'Homme aux bras ballants" is also the soundtrack to a short film by the same name by Laurent Gorgiard. "Sur le fil" has become a live favourite, normally only the violin section performed with great intensity, sometimes even breaking many hairs on the bow.

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- violins, accordion, piano, mandolins, guitar, typewriter, small and big saucepans, cooking pot,

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, banjo, harpsichord,

oud The oud ( ; , ) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have ...

, acoustic guitar, 12 stringed guitar, toy piano, vibraphone, cello, melodica, chimes, bowed mandolins, bicycles,

bontempi Bontempi is an Italian musical instrument manufacturer, best known for producing low-priced, plastic-cased chord organs: small keyboard instruments in which the sound is produced by air being forced over reeds by an electric fan. History Fo ...

, vocals *

Claire Pichet Claire Pichet is a French soloist singer and musician. She sang the song "Summer 78" on the soundtrack of ''Good Bye Lenin!'' (2003). She collaborated with multi-instrumentalist and composer Yann Tiersen on the song "Rue des cascades" (1996). ...

- vocals on "La Rupture" *

- vocals on "Monochrome", vocals, piano, and guitar on "Les Bras de mer" * Sacha Toorop - percussion, drum kit, big drum, and small bell on "Le Quartier", "La Rupture", "Monochrome", and "Les Bras de mer" ;Production * Stephane Kraemer - engineer, mixing * Frank Loriou - artwork * Renaud Monfourny - photography

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