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The Golden Morning Breaks

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Have you ever started listening to an album and before you know it your eyes are shut and suddenly you seem to float away with the music in complete bliss? This is how I felt listening to The Golden Morning Breaks by Colleen. Truly sublime, passionate, and bueatiful. Like all Great albums, the more you hear it the more you love and enjoy it, hearing new things each time within the songs. Not since Sigur Ros'-() and Efterklang's- Tripper have I felt such bueaty and Tranquillity from an artist. The first Must-have album of the year. Just put on your headphones, press play, and let the music suck you away.

This is something quite special ... at first the music is simply delicate, fragile, childlike, and lovely enough for possessing those qualities. But the more you listen to it, the richer & more complex it becomes, like the tender, knowing smile of someone very old, someone who has experienced all that life can offer, and has come to peaceful terms with it. Yet at the same time, it sparkles with a child's wonder, curiosity & delight. There's often a certain melancholy or even faintly ominous undercurrent to this music, an awareness of sorrow & loss beneath the golden, sunlit surface of things. It's not for everyone, but if you give it a chance, you may be caught up in its softly dazzling beauty -- most highly recommended!

This is truly a beautiful album. Obviously very different from mainstream music. It forces you to block everything out and to just focus on sound. it takes you away to another place. i recommend closing your eyes while listening to it. "Colleen" is a very artistic and intuitive person. I hope everyone enjoys it as i did.

I'm going to start by saying that some people spend their whole lives looking for albums like this one.
(Search here).
This album pocesses a surreal sense of one's existance.
It is as if one were just born into their existance, and started searching empty space in the cosmological plane for miraculous force, and discovered music. Discovered music, so basic (or primitively honest to the human soul) -but beyond genius in its lucid complexity that they felt all this profound and inexplainably complex emotions, and the feeling was more real than anything else they had ever expirenced. The expirence, the profound emotions, then became a part of them, creating a depth of thought that had just been realized. Then one realizes that the feeling was one's very existance. The empty space becomes full and vibrant.
This album is for thinkers; I have yet to buy her first album, but i think understand her title: Everyone Alive Wants Answers. This is an album to think to (though not as backround noise).

Thus said, I feel obligated to say that before one can embark on this journey of self-discovery, one must understand the music(at least to some degree). And as previous reveiwers have stated, the music is "simple"(lucid would be much more suited to describing it), however it is so original that one can't understand the music until they have listened to it to the point of understanding.
(So forget all your premises for good music as they are prejudices!)
I think that if people had never heard any music before they would understand this far better than the musiophilles who will stumble about this brilliant work.
It took me more than a week of listening to this ablum to understand it.
I remember the moment vividly: It was on track 6 and i was staring at the stars, thinking about the stars' light how it was just reaching my eyes from hundreds of light years away -from hundreds of years ago and how everything i was seeing was no longer how the universe truely existed, i was seeing the remnant of possibly deceased stars and the wake of the passing universe. Then the beauty of the music hit me and moved me nearly to tears.
love and gratitude,
Gregory

Colleen's _The Golden Morning Breaks_ is like a slice of pure bucolic bliss, from the cello and looped guitar on the opener, "Summer Water" to the delicate and dream-like "Floating in the Clearest Sea." With an array of classical instruments at her disposal (including harpsichords, music boxes, and zithers), she creates these otherworldly landscapes. "The Happy Sea" ends with some nautical horns, and "I'll Read You a Story" sounds like a lullaby for a sad little girl. The tracks continually change and morph: continual hum on "Bubbles Which on the Water Swim" cedes to the guitar, while the sparse title track ends with a plucking frenzy. The final track, "Everything Lay Still," starts with windchimes, but builds slowly to a gracious buzz and fades away to nothingness. Sublime.

This album is great for relaxing to, although its not for everyone, people who don't like minimal music will be put of immediatly. I am not one of those people. I love ambient and minimal instumental music such as this. Each listen is like a journey, with the sound carrying you away, its beautiful - just bear in mind that if your expecting pop - you'll hate it.

Being in the pop/rock section in the music store, I thought it might be.. well, pop/rock. This cd is all instrumental, and although I am a fan of instrumental music... I would hardly call this cd that. All the songs sound exactly the same, and almost reminds me of baby toys that go above cribs spinning around and around. or even a jack-in-the-box when you crank the handle. All I can think of when I hear the songs is somebody sitting there with a triangle and wind chimes. I don't recommend this cd for anyone or anything. Actually, I don't think it is at all relaxing either.. it is way to repetative and just gets annoying to sit and listen to. It's pretty much the worst cd ever. The names of the songs make me laugh though.. they are funny.. but ALSO repetative... they are mostly all about water. I only bought the cd because my name is Colleen. I regret buying it. I want my money back. If I HAD to chose, my favorite song would have to be "floating in the clearest sea" but only because it's the shortest.