Colleen

As Colleen, Cécile Schott creates dreamily experimental music that reflects an enduring serenity and wonder -- and her flair for reinvention. The producer/multi-instrumentalist's early releases, such as 2003's Everyone Alive Wants Answers, focused on her skill at arranging samples and loops into transcendent collages; when she added more acoustic instrumentation on 2005's The Golden Morning Breaks and incorporated vocals on 2013's The Weighing of the Heart, it only heightened her music's intimacy and warmth. On later works like 2017's A Flame, My Love, A Frequency, 2021's The Tunnel and the Clearing, and 2026's Libres antes del final, her use of vibrant analog electronics conveyed the universal truths of difficult times in profoundly beautiful ways.