colleen

Le jour et la nuit du réel, my 8th album, was released on 22nd September, the day after I arrived in New York for what was my first real tour in 6 years. I didn’t have the time to post about it on this website, as updating with WordPress on a mobile phone is not the most convenient thing, and then I just got swept away by touring. Now I finally have a bit of time to sit down, only to leave again this Saturday for the first show of a European tour (all dates below) which will be spread over this fall, winter and spring 2024, so that my dear kitties Sol and Klee don’t suffer too much from my absence.

Remember that if you’d like more money to come to me and the label, then your best option is to order via the Thrill Jockey website, which can ship from Germany or the US (PLEASE DISREGARD THE UK SHIPPING MENTION, AS THIS IS A BUG THAT NEEDS TO BE SORTED ON THEIR WEBSITE: WE PROMISE YOU WILL GET YOUR RECORD FROM GERMANY, NOT THE UK!), and your second best option is to order via Bandcamp.

INTIMACY AND EXPANSIVENESS: LE JOUR ET LA NUIT DU RÉEL LIVE AT PUBLIC RECORDS, NYC, 22 SEPTEMBER 2023.
It is hard to put into words what this first US tour in 6 years has meant for me. In view of the ever more numerous tragedies happening in so many places right now, it feels almost inappropriate to be writing about this now, but I will proceed, as I think that music does have a role in curing our wounds, even if it may not stop war and wrongdoings.
I started playing live as Colleen more than 20 years ago and as of today have played exactly 240 shows: I had never experienced something like what I felt when I started playing the first song from my new album at @publicrecordsnyc , and I would rank this particular moment among the 5 most powerful things I’ve ever experienced.
Seeing that my music has always felt incredibly intimate and personal to me, but that the whole point of playing shows is to connect with my audience as people in a physical space, and that I nearly gave up on this in 2021, this show (and the whole tour, brief as it was) was more than I could ever have hoped for to cement my renewed commitment to live playing.
I was lucky enough to play 5 days before the flooding. I knew that the sound system and the room at Public Records are famous and I did have expectations, but nothing could have prepared me for this sensory experience. I would say it was the perfect combination of crowd, crew, instrumentation and sound: you were all in there packed like sardines, completely silent during the songs even though there is a bar (I distinctly remember the faint sound of ice cubes clicking against each other once in a while), and because the stage is so low and you were so close it felt incredibly intimate, almost as if we were all miraculously standing in my small studio in Barcelona, except the sound was so, so powerful that I could feel my internal organs trembling as I started playing. 

Thank you so much to all of you for being part of a moment that I will forever cherish, special thanks @francisscissor ,Chris @octavedowner on sound and all @publicrecordsnyc
🙏🙏🙏📷 @kamuter.world @mercymercymoi @maevesupilowski @mira_moore @eyehall @princed @lulusoni

EUROPEAN TOUR 2023 + NEW DATES 2024 – more dates to be added in 2024

14 10 The White Hotel / The Beauty Witch – MANCHESTER, UK – with Marlene Ribeiro

15 10 Kings Place – LONDON, UK – 6 pm – Luminate festival (individual tickets for my show)

19 10 Meet Factory – PRAGUE, CZ

20 10 Silent Green – BERLIN, DE

POSTPONED TO SPRING 2024: 10 11 BRUSSELS, BE 

05 11 Ekko Festival / Slettebakken Kirke – BERGEN, NO

11 11 Le Guess Who – UTRECHT, NL

14 12 L’Auditori / L’Afluent – BARCELONA, ES

16 12 Galeria Ze Dos Bois – LISBOA, PT

2024 DATES

19-23 03 Tremor -SAÕ MIGUEL, AZORES, PT

21-24 03 Big Ears – KNOXVILLE, TN, USA

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