Sage Francis Teams with Amelie Composer Yann Tierson

Yet none of them so seemingly unexpected and ultimately transcendent as the pairing on the track Best Of Times featuring Francis' extraordinary lyricism and the music of noted French composer Yann Tierson.

An intensely inventive classically based multi instrumentalist, Tierson is perhaps best known for creating the powerfully evocative soundtrack to the beloved 2001 French film "Am�lie."

On the song Best Of Times, what begins as simple atmospheric accompaniment, gradually builds into an epic crescendo, providing an absolutely perfect musical score for Francis' increasingly powerful confessional narrative. As unorthodox a partnership as it might initially appear, the anarchistic rapper and the classical composer, the collaboration is by no means a novelty. Sage Francis was well aware of Yann Tierson before the making of Li(f)e.