Colleen, "everyone alive wants answers"

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