With nine albums to her credit over the past twenty years, Colleen, aka Cécile Schott, is a French composer and singer based in Barcelona, often overlooked in France but respected in the English-speaking world. She is the author of an exemplary musical oeuvre, singular and unclassifiable, exploring, depending on the album, a variety of instruments, her own voice of course, but also sampling and viola da gamba, bells and natural sounds, thumb piano, music boxes or, more recently, synthesizers, as is the case with her latest double album, Le jour et la nuit du réel. An all-instrumental, electronic album in which the trance of machines becomes sensitive and intimate.

Colleen 's interview was conducted by Jean-Yves Leloup.

Selected pieces:  

-" Be Without Being Seen (Movement I)", album Le jour et la nuit du réel (September 22, 2023)

-" Night Looping (Movement III)", album Le jour et la nuit du réel (September 22, 2023)

-" Les Parenthèses Enchantées (Movement III)", album Le jour et la nuit du réel (September 22, 2023)

-" Revelation", album The Tunnel and the Clearing (2021)

Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing mini-documentary from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

-Implosion-Explosion", album The Tunnel and the Clearing (2021)

-I Was Deep in a Dream and I Didn`t Know It", Leaf album bundle (2016)

-" The Golden Morning Breaks", album The Golden Morning Breaks (2005)

-" Captain Of None", Captain of None album (2015)

Colleen - Captain of None (Official Music Video) from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Latest album, Le jour et la nuit du réel, September 22, 2023(Thrill Jockey)

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