Everyone Alive Wants Answers

Colleen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The Leaf Label
• ASIN: B00009VZ8M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From URB Magazine

The first tangible thought conjured from the stark jumble of digital mandolins that stumble so meticulously throughout the title track of this album was "Oh, it's like Four Tet if Kieran was a girl." They've both surveyed the landscapes of organic music made digitally and done it more successfully than most, given the immediate grandeur and impact of Everyone Alive Wants Answers. "Ritournelle" plays like a ballroom dance scene in a Tim Burton movie, all delicate chimes and sweeping strings. Who is this Colleen and why does she have me so thusly twisted? Inquiring minds needed to know. Her real name is CŽcile Schott, a twentysomething Parisienne who plays a cello onstage. This full-length debut is absolutely gorgeous, a warm inviting swirl of ambient symphonics and contemplative interludes. Although there was that one night listening to it with this girl while smoking pot - she got pretty spooked by it.

Scott J. Sterling

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Process Music, August 6, 2005

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K. Morrison "ovenopener" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Audio CD)

Colleen's first album is built entirely of small fragmented loops taken from various sampled sources. The music is very simple, slow, beautiful. One thing that I find amazing about this is that Colleen's music is the process itself. That is, what you're hearing as the end result is the very means by which it is made - the simple loops. You're hearing the broken pieces of the music placed next to eachother. She lets the seams show. If you have the patience for quiet and slow music, then this comes highly recommended.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, June 17, 2005

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Mylo "El Ninjo" (In the Middle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Audio CD)

This cannot be right...why hasn't anyone reviewed this yet? Well, I will not compare it to anything else, let me just tell you that it is amazing. Good for listening to when you want to get lost, because it will happen indefinitely. Where it takes you is sometimes a scary place, but sometimes the happiest place you have ever imagined.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, November 9, 2006

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M. Stevens (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Audio CD)

A truly amazing CD, expressive, creative, beautiful, simple and yet sophisticated all at the same time. A must for anyone interested in contemporary ambient music.