She emailed me! :0 ^_^
― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
what did she say?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Good news! That's a lovely cover too.
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Title track is something else.
― R = J - L (Leee), Saturday, 20 April 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
There's this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxw1DtlN0jA
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
hrmph
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 April 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/colleen-the-weighing-of-the-heart
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yxw1DtlN0jA
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
so this is on Spotify
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
CANCELLED 12 June 2014 San Francisco, USA, Exploratorium – Resonance Series (Performance And Talk)
D: D:
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
http://colleenplays.org/2014/03/31/next-album-facebook-at-last-and-san-francisco-show-cancellation/
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
title track on captain of none sounds like the studio producing young marble giants jamming with the durutti column. nice
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 April 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Had no idea she had a new album out, or that she was touring the US. Now I have a ticket to see her!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
i am in loooove w/ Captain of None
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 May 2015 22:57 (eight 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