French musician and singer-songwriter Cécile Schott aka Colleen has announced the release of a new album. The Tunnel and the Clearing will be out on May 21st via Thrill Jockey Records. According to the press release, it finds the profound composer at her most vulnerable and confident, invoking contemplative and swirling organ processed through analog electronics, steady drum machine syncopations and her distinctive voice to embody breaking through the nexus of compounding transitions. On an album centered on processing the complicated washes of emotion through tribulations and revelations Colleen presents a vision of breathless clarity.
We already shared “Gazing at Taurus – Santa Eulalia” and “Implosion-Explosion“; “Hidden In The Current” is a new excerpt. She elaborates: “the song captures my awakening to a hard but inevitable truth, owning it, and realizing that ultimately, all life experiences – positive and negative, joyful and painful – are “hidden in the current / Where all things grow / Even on their own”.
Watch the official video below.