Colleen et les Boîtes à Musique

Posted over 5 years ago
"Colleen":http://www.colleenplays.org/ (Cécile Schott) was commissioned by the France Culture’s Atelier De Création Radiophonique to record music for a special broadcast; inspired by a trip to Scotland where she visited a friend (and one-time music antique dealer) who owns numerous old music boxes, she realized that a music box recording might be a perfect choice (the pieces use everything from miniature boxes hidden in 1940s birthday cards to large Victorian boxes)She was so delighted with the results that she decided to release it on the "Leaf label":http://www.theleaflabel.com/template.php, it is one of her most intimate and personal record, a work of stunning beauty."Colleen - Under The Roof":http://www.theleaflabel.com/audio/71.mp3 taken from the album _Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique_"Colleen - Ritournelle":http://www.theleaflabel.com/audio/29.mp3 taken from the album _Everyone Alive Wants Answers_

Comments (14)

  1. champy says Precious video. Music boxes huh?
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  2. mktackabery says Thierry, thank you for introducing me to this tremendous artist who was unknown to me - her approach to ambience, if I may call it that, is simply stunning. Andy Kellman eMusic had a great review of her Everyone Alive Wants Answers album: It's 40 minutes of motionless in-between-ness, but it's also so alluring that you might just want to stay there all day long. The Leaf Label was also unknown to me . . . so of course I went to sample everything and now I have a new playlist on eMusic and am waiting for my downloads to refresh so I can go gobble it all up. Wow. Thanks again, Michelle
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  3. JohnRoxy says The artwork is cool. her site is a little hard to move around in. music is cool too.
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  4. LadyC says thanks been hearing about her alot and this makes me finally move my butt to find out more.
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  5. Dirk1 says I really like Colleen -- only have some of the tracks from Boîtes À Musique but looking forward to hearing them all.
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  6. Thierry Castaing says The leaf label is indeed really good, especially _Murcof_, _Susumu Yokota_ or _A Hawk and A Hacksaw_
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  7. ooeh says wicked post! looks nice, sounds nice. merci!
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  8. kristiana says wonderfully romantic idea - beautiful stuff! thanks!
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  9. SWozniak says Just because of this, I will by her CD next. Good work!
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  10. SWozniak says buy*
    Permalink posted 11/20/2006
  11. SWozniak says Her limited LP is in the mail. :-D
    Permalink posted 11/21/2006
  12. Thierry Castaing says Wow, that was fast!
    Permalink posted 11/21/2006
  13. SWozniak says Hurray for the internet and disposable income cleverly disguising itself as credit card debt.
    Permalink posted 11/21/2006
  14. SWozniak says Mort aux vaches arrived today, and it's fantastic. Thanks for the recommendation.
    Permalink posted 11/29/2006

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