{"product_id":"colleen-the-tunnel-and-the-clearing","title":"Colleen - The Tunnel And The Clearing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColleen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an aboundingly inventive composer and artist. For two decades \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCécile Schott, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas Colleen, has crafted welcoming, enchanting, and bewildering music. The multi- instrumentalist and vocalist’s timeless compositions make use of carefully selected tools to mold memories into transcendent splendor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tunnel and the Clearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efinds Schott at her most vulnerable and confident, invoking contemplative and swirling organ processed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough analog electronics, steady drum machine syncopations and her distinctive voice. On an album centered on processing the complicated washes of emotion through tribulations and revelations Colleen presents a vision of breathless clarity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tunnel and the Clearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas developed over a period of transformative change. Colleen began work on the album in 2018 but was all but halted by extreme fatigue from a previously undiagnosed illness. Years of treatment and adjustment eventually led to relocating to Barcelona, soon followed by lockdowns and then the dissolution of her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elongtime partnership. Reflecting on these cumulative experiences she reimagined her compositional practices, spending months in near complete silence. Says Schott, “Never \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebefore had I felt so profoundly the power that music has, through harmony, melody, rhythm and sound itself, to express the whole range of human emotions.” The resulting seven pieces investigate the complex, at times contradictory relationship between excitement and fear, anger and understanding, struggle and triumph, all focused on a reconstruction of the self. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColleen’s albums are unified by distinct and personal instrumentation, built around music \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eboxes, viola da gamba, or electronics, they somehow all remarkably share a dreamlike modern quality. For \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tunnel and the Clearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSchott restricted herself to using analog electronic instruments including the Elka Drummer One, the Roland RE-201 Space Echo and Moog Grandmother synth, coupled with Yamaha organ keyboard. Stunningly, Colleen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eachieves the rich emotional intricacy and the lush density of textures on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tunnel and the Clearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough almost entirely live performance and processing. These detailed and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaffecting compositions mirror Colleen’s grappling with her own psyche. Schott elaborates “I \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efound direct correspondences between my internal discourse, its obsessive, frantic attempts at making sense of what I could not understand, and the music I was making, with motifs functioning as questions and answers, doubts and assertions.” Clicks, hums, warbles and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrobs emulating our evolving internal worlds, an “emotional noise.” A musical journey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough the tunnel toward the clearing at its end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tunnel and the Clearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a work of lucid reverence, a constellation of marvels suspended in air. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable on limited edition opaque white vinyl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64322592899449,"sku":null,"price":21.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/541_3000x3000px_589fb222-db09-4e80-8692-0c001c6d005a.jpg?v=1787902395","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/colleen-the-tunnel-and-the-clearing","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}