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)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 5 April 2015 05:52 (nine years ago) link
I kind of miss the deeply melancholic Colleen, but this sunnier Colleen still makes pretty songs.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Thursday, 14 May 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
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
― jaywbabcock, Thursday, 14 May 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
i am in loooove w/ Captain of None
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 May 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Seeing her tonight!
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Thursday, 11 June 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
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
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
where has this been all my life
thanking all of you
― sleeve, Thursday, 11 June 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
Short show!
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 12 June 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
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).
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 12 June 2015 08:16 (eight years ago) link
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?
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 12 June 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 12 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
That one track on the album that's a bit Augustus Pablo, that's great that is
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Friday, 12 June 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
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.
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 26 June 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
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 :-/
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 26 June 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FF9kAl6D8
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 26 June 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Thanks for posting that it is really amazing. She has quite a variety of sounds from that very unique picking style!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
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 daysi like her a lot
― La Lechera, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Her sound seems like a sort of stoner-ECM-dub collision, which is not a bad thing at all.
― sorry, no results found for "Sekal Has To Die" (xelab), Monday, 27 July 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
she has the nerve to be totally mild and super weird at the same time, it's admirable
― La Lechera, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
i'm way into it
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 27 July 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
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
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 27 July 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
thx i'll check it out!
― La Lechera, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Eclipse is so good.
― sorry, no results found for "Sekal Has To Die" (xelab), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
I said this before somewhere but a lot of it is quite reminiscent of Malian kora music
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
i have never to my knowledge heard colleen before now, but captain of none is sounding p rad to me right now.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 August 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/video/resonance-colleen-performance
― :wq (Leee), Thursday, 6 August 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
"Winter Dawn" is really good.
― Klingon T'Kuvma Why Don't You Love Mah? (Leee), Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
^ yeah! Captain of None was a top 5 record in 2015 for me, excited for this new one
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 9 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
From the two new tracks on Spotify, she seems to be incorporating more electronics again.
― Klingon T'Kuvma Why Don't You Love Mah? (Leee), Monday, 9 October 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
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)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 9 October 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/colleenplays/
(serving the lazy)
― Ludo, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/556934263/first-listen-colleen-a-flame-my-love-a-frequency
― djh, Monday, 16 October 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
ooh that cover is pretty
― rob, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
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).
― djh, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
new one is a beaut
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 20 October 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
she is the gd coolestshe posted on facebook about how she started making her own clothes and made all of the clothes for her new tourwhat an inspiration!! i love colleen.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 October 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
New album is great.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 20 October 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
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
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 October 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
This is very nice yeah
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 October 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― dronestreet, Saturday, 21 October 2017 03:45 (six years ago) link
Loving this (Didn't hear the last one ... Should I?)
― djh, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
absolutely!! i really love Captain of None. it's more overtly groovy than any of her other stuff imei 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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Captain of None rules
― nomar, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
by groovy i mean songs like this -- the groove is implied, not necessarily heavy drum/bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XuAMyAcwwY
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
^^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.
― nomar, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
captain of none is her best
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 27 October 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
Haha, weird, I scored Captain of None from a discount bin, too. While wandering through Maine. Great record.
― dronestreet, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 13 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― giraffe, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link