Colleen, "everyone alive wants answers"

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What can you tell me about Colleen? I don't know anything about her besides the fact that she is a) French, b) an English Professor and c) signed to Leaf. Also, if you've heard the album talk about it. Why d'you like it? And you, there, that hates it, why d'you hate it?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

brand new review of the album @milkfactory.co.uk

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

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

I stray between the magnetic poles of finding this album intensely boring and 'boredom is the the only emotion I have left in my loneliness'.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 00:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Has anyone heard this?

― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

havent seen it yet... i quite liked that turiko nojiko or whoever she is on mego, does that lp stand up to repeated listening?

looks like u are developing an aesthetic coz!

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

i've liked it every time i've heard it (3 or 4?). can't remember much about it though. glockenspiels. good to do maths to. i'll give it another listen in a minute.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 18 July 2003 11:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

It's good for drifting off to sleep to. I'm not sure I could actively listen to it.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 18 July 2003 11:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

It's good for waiting to.

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 July 2003 11:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

My review of this record up on Neumu now.

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

attention, cozen:

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

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 19 February 2004 00:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

it's a beautiful album

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

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 19 February 2004 00:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeh i knew this. one step ahead of the martian.

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?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 00:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

haha remember chip morningstar? some of his best stuff.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 00:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

fuck you if you don't think so.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 00:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

say more things.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 01:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

i love it my wife loves it my kids love it

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 19 February 2004 01:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Beautiful stuff

― Steven M, Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

dammit

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

her live show is so great. theres this shy lass onstage who plays a little lalo shifrin ditty. and then she pushes afew pedals and the dtty starts going backward and forwrad at the same time, revrebing into infinity, building into a huge wal of sound that devuors the audeince. she killed the pa eventualy!

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

― :|, Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

she should be touring the US this summer (hopefully)!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

she's playing london on 28.4...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, she's great.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Gosh - her 'Ritournelle' just came up on ILX last.fm radio. Spookily good.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

I like this album quite a bit, though I find that my attention has moved elsewhere by the end. I start out really enjoying it actively, but it fades into the background by the end. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though, because it works pretty well as background music. Even though it's not a very long album, I wonder if I would like it more if I listened to half of it, took a break, and then finished it off later. I probably won't ever successfully complete this experiment, though, because once I take a break, my short attention span will move onto something else and forget about Colleen entirely, for I am a scatterbrain.

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

omfg check out the favuorite music section of her website.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

she listed wu-tang forever as one of her favorite albums of the 90s. I'm glad someone else likes it.

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

she is wonderful, I can't wait for another record.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

omfg check out the favuorite music section of her website.

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

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Everyone Alive Wants Answers" would be and odd soundtrack to a wet dream.

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

you come and you come again.

― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

i'm presently interviewing her via email. questions, anyone?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

What is the next album called? when will it be released? how long did it take to write & record?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

ask her if leaf is going to get her over to the US this year, they were planning to last year but decided to hold back until another record was done. I really want to see her in SF!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Does she DJ or play her music live? I guess that's more a question for ILX than her.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

Will she score my film in 20 years?

― Francisco Monar (fmonar), Thursday, 13 January 2005 15:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

She plays it live, Leeeee, a lot of loop pedal and swapping between cello and recorder-like-thing on the fly. And restarting songs a few times because the dinky little music-box won't play backwards properly.

(it is adorable.)

― cis (cis), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

she plays the music box backward!! why didnt i think of that. i thought she had a magic pedal or something.

― :| (....), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

here's the interview: http://ystrickler.blogspot.com/2005/01/dialogue-colleen.html

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

ok, i'm listening to a track ('everything lay still') from the new album, and i'm pretty excited about it. has anyone heard the whole ablum? i should listen to 'everyone alive wants answers' again, i guess, i think i prob only heard it 3-4 times max.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

Everyone Alive... is great. And Colleen is tres sexy *ducks*.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

i just listened to "everything lay still" too. sounds exactly like most of the first record (which i didn't like much).

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

I forgot about colleen!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

is the album out? she is sexy because she is a FRENCH SCHOOLTEACHER WHO MAKES MUSIC OMG

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

it's out in june. the album is tremendous.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

you can preview the whole album here:

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.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

okay, i'm listening properly now, and cynicism aside, this is like... REALLY pretty.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Anyone else digging the new one?

― baaderonixx, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― jed_, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

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.

― MRZBW, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― fandango, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

"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.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 23 December 2007 01:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Monday, 22 February 2010 05:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― daschund derrida (Leee), Monday, 14 November 2011 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

her ears are pointier than i pictured

― latebloomer, Monday, 14 November 2011 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Obama's metrosexual cool (crüt), Monday, 14 November 2011 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

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

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 7 September 2012 08:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

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

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 18 January 2013 06:09 (4 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

She emailed me! :0
^_^

― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:33 (2 months ago) Permalink

what did she say?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 08:48 (2 months ago) Permalink

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.

― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:44 (2 months ago) Permalink

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

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:29 (2 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

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

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:08 (1 month ago) Permalink

Good news! That's a lovely cover too.

― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

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

― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:30 (1 month ago) Permalink

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.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:32 (1 month ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Title track is something else.

― R = J - L (Leee), Saturday, 20 April 2013 17:51 (1 month ago) Permalink

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!

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:02 (1 month ago) Permalink

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

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:39 (1 month ago) Permalink

There's this video

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:53 (1 month ago) Permalink

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!

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:57 (1 month ago) Permalink

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

Not to my knowledge, I got a review copy.

― R = J - L (Leee), Sunday, 21 April 2013 18:07 (1 month ago) Permalink

hrmph

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 April 2013 18:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

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

― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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

― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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