Colleen - The Weighing Of The Heart

[OUT OF PRINT] 180g, Deluxe Gatefold, 8 Page lyric booklet, free download code. 2013 album pressed on vinyl for the first time in 2021. Five years after her previous widely-acclaimed album, Les Ondes Silencieuses, Ccile Schott (aka Colleen), returns with a stunning new opus maximus, 'The Weighing of the Heart' - her first for Second Language. Singing for the first time on record, and to dazzling, numinous effect, the dexterous Spain-based Frenchwoman deploys violas da gamba, guitar, woodwind and Moondog-inspired percussion across a litany of finely wrought tableaux vivant songs. The combined influences of Arthur Russell, Moondog, Brigitte Fontaine and the musics of the African continent loom large in her new work, an absorbing fusion of the delicately spun and the rhythmically persuasive, embracing a pastoralism that is both lyrical yet rooted to the earth; at once hazily baroque yet accessible and universal. Colleen has released three albums on The Leaf Label, and also released a liv