Colleen, "everyone alive wants answers"

COLLEEN
Everyone Alive Wants Answers
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/colleen_answers.htm

looks like u are developing an aesthetic coz!

Saturday May 1
Triptych Festival, Tron Theatre,
Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Colleen (live) + To Rococo Rot + Movietone + Directorsound + more

http://www.posteverything.com/news/article.php?id=1428

Triptych
http://www.triptych04.com/
Full line-up to be launched and tickets on sale from Thursday Feb 19

she may be touring the US this summer. Maybe with Mum (or so I heard).

as i said on another thread, i listened to this recently in the bath. it made me think my review was quite wrongheaded but still maybe interesting. fuck you if you don't think so? fuck you if you don't think so. yes, i like this album. do you like this album, prima?

sadly the album doesnt maesure up. i excpet her next one to be the bees nees though.

Ha ha - she's like an ILM boy's wet dream.

(it is adorable.)

http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemCode=B182867

backwards guitar figures and music boxes, there's something untried by the ambientelectroacoustic set! still, sounds pretty, and i'm willing to forgive colleen a fair bit.

and it turns out her real name is Cécile Schott.

Anyone else digging the new one?

i haven't given it a proper listen. the album this thread is about is easily the weakest colleeen album imo.

i haven't given it a proper listen. the album this thread is about is easily the weakest colleeen album imo.

I have no problems calling it the best.

playing in church in Hull in two weeks! should be vey twinkly... http://www.myspace.com/seedsandbridges

"Les Ondes" is really wonderful stuff, and I'm annoyed that I didn't find out about her until recently when eMusic promoted it. Reminds me a bit of some of Simon Fisher Turner's stuff (e.g. the Nadja soundtrack) without the special effects. She was on Active Suspension at one point, right? Between her and Konki Duet, I'm getting the impression that I need to do some serious research on the French electronic-acoustic scene.

http://www.colleenplays.org/NEWS/news_r23_c6.gif

http://colleenplays.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/kiska-in-the-sun-2-small-e1316868322905.jpg

her ears are pointier than i pictured

http://kibitzers.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/colleen_thomas.jpg
everyone alive wants answers

Pretty eye-opening account of the trials of the indie artist:
http://colleenplays.org/2011/08/07/test/#more-296

http://colleenplays.org/2012/12/27/new-album-out-in-may-2013/

She emailed me! :0
^_^

what did she say?

I emailed first about how transcendant one of her shows was to me, and that hopefully she will be able to make it to the US again. Unfortunately, the logistics don't look good.

I have to say I'm not that familiar with her music but I found her writing on her blog quite inspiring

http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/04/colleen-prepares-striking-new-album-for-londons-second-language/

Good news! That's a lovely cover too.

btw I would totally recommend Julia Kent to people who want to find more good cello stuff in the same sort of ballpark as Colleen

It's a lovely cover indeed. The write-up by Fact makes me highly curious to see what direction she turns next with the new LP. The album this thread is named after has been a steady fave of mine ever since it came out, but I do enjoy how she comes up with something really different every time.

Title track is something else.

Holy holy i just saw this thread and had no idea she's putting out a new album. "Everyone Alive" was BRILLIANT but i hadn't heard anything else since then. I did read her blog for a bit and especially all those wonderful animated gifs she was doing.

Looking forward to the new stuff!

good news. have heard only excerpts (which sound great). is a full version of the title track floating around out there, leee?

There's this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxw1DtlN0jA

Pretty eye-opening account of the trials of the indie artist:
http://colleenplays.org/2011/08/07/test/#more-296

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, September 7, 2012 4:39 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is a good read, she comes out and says some things that don't get said often enough imo. Sometimes you are a musician and you really don't feel like making music, or even listening to music, yet you have this role of Musician, and so you feel guilty about something that isn't entirely in your control. Really glad she is feeling the music again!

is a full version of the title track floating around out there, leee?

Not to my knowledge, I got a review copy.

hrmph

http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/colleen-the-weighing-of-the-heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yxw1DtlN0jA

so this is on Spotify

CANCELLED 12 June 2014 San Francisco, USA, Exploratorium – Resonance Series (Performance And Talk)

D: D:

http://colleenplays.org/2014/03/31/next-album-facebook-at-last-and-san-francisco-show-cancellation/

title track on captain of none sounds like the studio producing young marble giants jamming with the durutti column. nice

Had no idea she had a new album out, or that she was touring the US. Now I have a ticket to see her!

i don't think i'd heard of her before, but i have the new one and it is quite nice. i get an arthur russell vibe.

funny how she has only 9 tour dates in the US and one of them is in New Hampshire. I bought a ticket to see her as well (but haven't heard the whole album yet)

I kind of miss the deeply melancholic Colleen, but this sunnier Colleen still makes pretty songs.

Wish we had a recording of her 2006 ArthurBall performance, it was a fest highlight, gorgeously psychedelic. Anyways. Here's an article we pub'd on her around that time... "UNDER A BLANKET: Amidst the culled samples and loops of antique instruments, where in Colleen‘s music is Cécile Schott?" By John Adamian

i am in loooove w/ Captain of None

Seeing her tonight!

love the new album so much! probably my favourite album this year so far

video for I'm Kin got uploaded today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2OfU4zbwY

where has this been all my life

thanking all of you

Short show!

Short? She played for over an hour, though it was a good length. Very...satisfied with the show. Didn't blow my mind but pleased me and was a long time coming (to the states).

It didn't feel like an hour! Maybe because I'd already seen her full setlist, anything fewer songs would feel abbreviated.

Were you as hypnotized by the drum circle hypnosis as I hypnotically was?

Yeah that was my favorite part. I would watch her do a whole set of dubbed out echo-ey drum things. She has done a couple of dub mixes to promote this album and they are very good!

Here:
http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/04/fact-mix-494-colleen/

And here:
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-2442015-hour-2-colleen

That one track on the album that's a bit Augustus Pablo, that's great that is

last night's show was great! a lot of the live tracks were more chaotic/fux0red than the album versions — I loved the rapidfire knob-twiddling at the end of 'I'm Kin' and the chopped-up drum loop in 'This Hammer Breaks' (I was expecting her to use the drum onstage to generate the loop, but she used a prerecorded sample). her version of the Night of the Hunter lullaby (mentioned in the setlist Leee posted) was one of the highlights of the set; she got a cool oscillator effect by bowing her instrument while running her fingering hand rapidly up and down the strings. hopefully she'll release it someday because it seems to be a mainstay in her sets.

It's too bad there wasn't a better turnout, though. I wasn't expecting a huge crowd at the little Portsmouth New Hampshire venue, but she deserved to have more than 30 people in the audience :-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FF9kAl6D8

Thanks for posting that it is really amazing. She has quite a variety of sounds from that very unique picking style!

finally bought her new album and now i'm extra bummed that i missed her show here
eclipse and captain of none are both great tracks, and different from anything i'm hearing these days
i like her a lot

Her sound seems like a sort of stoner-ECM-dub collision, which is not a bad thing at all.

she has the nerve to be totally mild and super weird at the same time, it's admirable

i'm way into it

LL i wonder if you'd like this album? she doesn't have the melodic prettiness of Colleen, but the percussive analog dub parts feel similar:
https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-shapeless-pool-of-lovely-pale-colours-suspended-in-the-darkness

thx i'll check it out!

Eclipse is so good.

I said this before somewhere but a lot of it is quite reminiscent of Malian kora music

i have never to my knowledge heard colleen before now, but captain of none is sounding p rad to me right now.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/video/resonance-colleen-performance

"Winter Dawn" is really good.

^ yeah! Captain of None was a top 5 record in 2015 for me, excited for this new one

From the two new tracks on Spotify, she seems to be incorporating more electronics again.

Yeah she’s been talking about this as her synth album on her FB page (which btw I recommend you all follow - full of thoughtful insights into her art and her life as an independent artist)

https://www.facebook.com/colleenplays/

(serving the lazy)

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/556934263/first-listen-colleen-a-flame-my-love-a-frequency

ooh that cover is pretty

An old Colleen album is an almost perfect soundtrack for painting a wall Hague Blue (At the weekend, Hood's "Cycles of Days & Seasons" actually *was* the perfect soundtrack for staining a fence in the autumn sunshine).

new one is a beaut

she is the gd coolest
she posted on facebook about how she started making her own clothes and made all of the clothes for her new tour
what an inspiration!! i love colleen.

New album is great.

Yeah the album is fantastic, just letting it sink in. And she's one of the very few I follow on FB. She's an inspiration. And chose to live in San Sebastian <3

This is very nice yeah

and last I heard she teaches/taught English!
She is playing here but I have to teach that night ;_;

Someday I will see her. Never thought I would become such a Colleen fan but she keeps being awesome and making music I like so I have no choice.

New one is really good. Extension of elements of the last I loved, but something different entirely. This is probably going top 5 of the year for me.

Textures remind me of a semi-broken music box...underwater. In a great way.

Loving this (Didn't hear the last one ... Should I?)

absolutely!! i really love Captain of None. it's more overtly groovy than any of her other stuff ime
i got the new one on saturday and listened to it twice in a row. it was one of those days when i totally disconnected from my life and just chilled out and colleen was 100% there when i needed her.

Captain of None rules

by groovy i mean songs like this -- the groove is implied, not necessarily heavy drum/bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XuAMyAcwwY

^^i found a new copy of that LP in the discount bin of a local record store that i think is mostly staffed by fans of Beatles imports and which has a Beach Boys surfboard on the wall for 100k. Colleen slipped through the cracks there.

captain of none is her best

Haha, weird, I scored Captain of None from a discount bin, too. While wandering through Maine. Great record.

The new album is really something else. For optimal results total silence is required (in/around the house and in the mind), boy... It's gorgeous. Like swimming with dolphins. "Summer Night (Bat Song)" is the center piece, the be all and end all, both literally and metaphorically. It's one of the harder Colleen lp's to get drawn into, but once she grabs a hold and pulls you under, there's a world down there you couldn't have dared to dream. So beautiful.

It's quite minimal isn't it, with subtle shifts. I really like it, but *so far* not as much as the gorgeous Captain of None.

It's very minimal! Echoes of her first couple of albums in that respect, utilising a specific sound and using it very sparsely. Except sound-wise it's totally different from her early days. I'm loving it.

I'm not getting into the new one, or any of her "happy" albums. I preferred her achingly lonely and melancholy stuff more.

https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/the-tunnel-and-the-clearing!

I'm not getting into the new one, or any of her "happy" albums. I preferred her achingly lonely and melancholy stuff more.

'the golden morning breaks' is one of the most heart wrenching records ive ever heard... i want to like the new stuff, but it's too cutesy :/

i love captain of none -- it's so subtly groovy
i guess i am into happy colleen! i followed her on fb and a while ago she was posting all of these cute outfits she had sewn for herself. little matching tops/shorts. i love her!

Wait which Colleen albums constitute "happy colleen"??

I like all her albums but the last three (Weighing of the Heart, Captain of Love, A flame a love a frequency) are all exquisitely classic. Are those the Happy Colleen albums?

New album is brilliant.

^wow, it is. Listened to it while waking up in bed this morning, it's gorgeous and mesmerising. Only faintly familiar with Captain of None, looking forward to catching up with the albums since then.

It's really good, but I went back to some of her older, dubbier records and still prefer those

New one is very minimal, which is the mode of hers I like the most.

These days it seems like I find out about records as often as not by thinking "I wonder if so and so put out an album this year? Oh they did, and I didn't see it anywhere." So I'm looking forward to checking out the new Colleen record today (sorry I missed your thread bump Leee).

https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/le-jour-et-la-nuit-du-r-el

New Colleen is good but not my favorite. It’s fully instrumental and gets a little samey as it goes. I miss her flat vocals.

"I wonder if so and so put out an album this year? Oh they did, and I didn't see it anywhere."

Yes, this feels familiar to me!