Colleen - The Weighing of The Heart
11 track CD album in hardback book-size format with 8 page lyric inlay - designed by renowned Italian illustrator Iker Spozio (Tex La Homa, Delia Derbyshire, Mark Fry, Hauschka, Damon & Naomi). The Weighing Of The Heart is number No.4 in the new 2L Library Series - a highly collectible catalogue of hardback CD albums designed to be stored in your bookcase.Celebrating a decade since Everyone Alive Wants Answers, her 2003 long-playing debut, The Weighing of the Heart finds the revivified Parisienne, now Spanish resident Cécile Schott (aka Colleen) gracing a new label and inhabiting a refreshing, incandescent new musical landscape, filled with plucked bass and treble violas de gamba and the more orthodox sounds of classical guitar, clarinet, piano and organ, while minimal drum kit, frame drum, toy gamelan and various bells and maracas add their percussive colours. The album’s 11 finely wrought essays are influenced as much by the output of mavericks such as Arthur Russell, Moondog an