Colleen + Marçal Xirau

French artist Cécile Schott aka Colleen is fearless in her willingness to explore new sounds and new ways of creating music as a solo performer. Over the course of eight critically acclaimed albums released between 2003 and 2023, Cécile Schott has consistently reinvented herself, first by taking acoustic instruments out of their usual context and pushing the boundaries of their playability, then through avant-pop electronic explorations, and now dedicates herself to her own unique brand of warm analog synthesis.

The Thrill Jockey recording artist has now played more than 250 concerts across Europe, the US, Japan, Brazil and Singapore, in prestigious venues (Public Records, Kings Place, Silent Green, La Casa Encendida, L’Auditori…) and festivals (Big Ears, Moogfest, Mutek, Le Guess Who, Transmediale, Rewire…).

Colleen’s growing passion for synthesis, bolstered by her collaborations with synth manufacturer Moog, led to her 8th album Le jour et la nuit du réel, released on Thrill Jockey in 2023. Built as a suite of songs, the artist’s first double album is also her first purely instrumental work since 2007, and aims to translate through a myriad of sound transformations the complexity of our relation to reality, and its psychological mutations through the cycles of day and night.

"A singular musician; no one else makes music like Colleen’s. Her songs offer a completely unique window on the world." - The New Yorker

"Instrumental landscapes that exalt simple abstract wonders" - NPR

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