Colleen
Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique LP

'Colleen Et Les Boites A Musique' ("Colleen and the music boxes") is Colleen's most arresting and sublime offering to date - constructed entirely from the impossibly beautiful sounds of chiming music boxes.

Opening with the clanking and winding of 'John Levers the Ratchet', this is the perfect introduction, as if the record were being wound like a music box to run across its 40 minute life-span before returning to stillness.

The music box has, of course, been used before within a contemporary framework (Aphex Twin's "Nanou" for one), but the way Schott composes seems so obviously matched with the mechanical and naïve qualities we hear that she seems to own the concept.

"Colleen Et Les Boites A Musique" is in fact so sublime that her output to date seems to have been merely leading up to this serendipitous moment - concept and execution coming together for a wondrous display of simplicity and beauty. Like the soundtrack to your favourite half-remembered fairytale, you won't find a warmer, more inviting record this year.

Produs Nou (desigilat) / Anul aparitiei: 2017

Tracklist:

A1 John Levers The Ratchet

A2 What Is A Componium? - Part 1

A3 Charles's Birthday Card

A4 Will You Gamelan For Me?

A5 The Sad Panther

A6 Under The Roof

A7 What Is A Componium? - Part 2

B1 A Bear Is Trapped

B2 Please Gamelan Again

B3 Your Heart Is So Loud

B4 Calypso In A Box

B5 Bicycle Bells

B6 Happiness Nuggets

B7 I'll Read You A Story