Everyone Alive Wants Answers

by Colleen

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adventure_tense I heard the first track of this album playing at the Albina Press coffeeshop in Portland Oregon back around 2004. I remember it like it was yesterday. A breezy sunny day. I found a CD shortly there after. I have enjoyed the energy and creative journey of this album, and every album since. Favorite track: Everyone Alive Wants Answers.

IAN COSTELLO Love the album.. So unusual. Everyone alive wants answers is wonderful.

BlyGys Curious magix
wisdoms like vibraphone
tonely poetic
ponderous exploratative
kind humility in sound
identity Colleen who?

DJHDD Colleen's work has always been beguiling with it's complicated rhythms, reminiscent of Steve Reich or Philip Glass. To be taken back through time, to listen to her the first album is a treat. There's something about the comfort, space & vibe(raphone) between these polyrhythmic loops, that take me to strange world journeys of Gamelan on acid. The simplicity is divine. Favorite track: Everyone Alive Wants Answers.

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Colleen's debut album, re-released as part of Leaf 20th anniversary, with spot varnished Leaf 20 logo on front cover.

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1.	Everyone Alive Wants Answers 03:31	buy track
2.	Ritournelle 03:09	buy track
3.	Carry-Cot 01:53	buy track
4.	Your Heart On Your Sleeve 02:46	buy track
5.	Goodbye Sunshine 02:48	buy track
6.	One Night And It's Gone 03:42	buy track
7.	Long Live Mice In the Metro 02:50	buy track
8.	I Was Deep In A Dream And I Didn't Know It 02:56	buy track
9.	Babies 03:34	buy track
10.	Sometimes On A Happy Cloud 01:55	buy track
11.	A Swimming Pool Down The Railway Track 04:14	buy track
12.	In The Train With No Lights 02:02	buy track
13.	Nice And Simple 04:20	buy track

about

My first album, released in 2003 on The Leaf Label and made during the year 2002 in my tiny studio flat in Paris, while I was going through an unbelievable amount of records in the Paris music libraries, looking for gems which I could sample for this new music I was making on my first computer. The album also contains a 4-track tape recording from 1995 of my first-ever instrument, a small Bontempi organ I got as a child, on “A Swimming Pool Down the Railway Track”. At the time of making the album I was completing teacher training and was just hoping that this album would be released somewhere, somehow, and had no clue that it would be the first step on this path I’m still walking.

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released June 30, 2003

Composed, mixed and produced by Cécile Schott. Copyright control.
Mastering by Emiliano Flores. Artwork by Florence Manlik.

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Colleen Barcelona, Spain

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cécile Schott, 7 albums since 2003. Thrill Jockey Records, LP7 The Tunnel and the Clearing, 2021.
LP8 Le jour et la nuit du réel, out fall 2023.

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Nov 09

TivoliVredenburg

Utrecht, Netherlands
Dec 14

L'Auditori de Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

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