Leaf
2005
The Golden Morning Breaks
About This Album
On the surface, Colleen's second release is much like her debut, Everyone Alive Wants Answers. Born Cecile Schott, this young French artist with a determined D.I.Y. mentality still mixes melody and minimalism, favoring a warm, even dreamy sound which often sounds like a mixture of acoustic folk and Renaissance classical run through an electronic blender. Some older listeners might relate the music on this CD to the early work of Vini Reilly's the Durutti Column, which featured Reilly's delicate, shimmering guitar textures enhanced with overdubs, loops, and treatments. In fact, Schott's first CD was a completed, sampled creation (except for a bit of processed electric organ on one track), utilizing only her eclectic record collection and a friend's gift of some sampling software. But when the unexpected success of her first CD provided opportunities for touring, Schott realized that sitting on a stage with a laptop was not something she wanted to do -- even if she could pull it off. Schott had already acquired a respectable guitar technique -- the result of earlier involvement with student bands -- and she set out to develop expertise on other instruments, some of them rather esoteric, like the 19th century glass harmonicon, a glockenspiel-like instrument.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5 and 7)

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