Les Ondes Silencieuses

by Colleen

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beanfumble A truly lovely album - in the short time I've owned it, this has become one of my favourite albums - I wish I'd found it years ago. The bonus live tracks are excellent too... Favorite track: Le Bateau.

uk7psm Great modern classical. Favorite track: This Place In Time.

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1.	This Place In Time 02:33	buy track
2.	Le Labyrinthe 05:15	buy track
3.	Sun Against My Eyes 04:22	buy track
4.	Les Ondes Silencieuses 06:09	buy track
5.	Blue Sands 05:16	buy track
6.	Echoes And Coral 03:09	buy track
7.	Sea Of Tranquillity 05:46	buy track
8.	Past The Long Black Land 03:41	buy track
9.	Le Bateau 07:09	buy track
10.	Unfold Out (live bonus track) 05:36	buy track
11.	Serpentine (live bonus track) 06:04	buy track
12.	I'll Read You A Story (live bonus track) 05:18	buy track

about

By the time I recorded my third album, released in 2007 on The Leaf Label, I’d obtained a sabbatical from my teaching job and embarked on one of the busiest years of my life – so busy in fact that I craved quietness and stillness, two things I found on my first tour in Japan in 2006, a trip that left its mark on me aesthetically . That desire for stillness and the Japanese influence manifested themselves in the music on the album. I had at last bought my dream instrument, a bass viola da gamba, and sound engineer Emiliano Flores, who so far had only mastered my albums, managed to capture its sound beautifully. The album was recorded and mixed partly in an attic in the suburbs of Paris by Emiliano, partly in my living-room in Paris by myself, and to the viola I added the sounds of the clarinet, the spinet (a harpsichord-related instrument), and my trusted classical guitar. When the album was released, I officially resigned from my teaching job, and embarked on a new phase of my musical life.
The bonus tracks are taken from a concert I gave in Tokyo in 2006 and are available in the digital and tape versions only - "Unfold out" and "Serpentine" have never been released elsewhere.

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released May 21, 2007

Recorded and mixed by Cécile Schott and Emiliano Flores. Composed and produced by Cécile Schott. Copyright control. Tracks 10, 11 and 12 recorded by Yasuyuki Miyazaki at Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, 4th November 2006, and originally released by Windbell for Japanese edition.
Mastering by Emiliano Flores. Artwork by Iker Spozio.

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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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