Cécile Schott (''Colleen'').
Colleen or Cécile Schott (born 1976) is a composer of electronic and ambient music based in France. Colleen - I'm Kin (Official Music Video) Thrill Jockey Records Colleen - Winter dawn (Official Music Video) Thrill Jockey Records Combining loops, samples, and eclectic acoustic instruments into dreamily experimental pop, Colleen is the project of French producer/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Cécile Schott . A former English teacher, she began making music in 2001, when a friend gave her a disc of free music production software. As she pieced together found sounds and samples from her own music collection as well as that of Paris Mediatheques' library, Colleen was born. Schott 's debut album, Everyone Alive Wants Answers , arrived in 2003 via England's Leaf Label. For her concerts, she didn't want to rely on a strictly electronic approach, so she augmented her loops with effects and live instrumentation. These elemen