colleen

Dear everyone

These past 2 days have been a whirlwind of announcements and tying the last bits of so many things, I am used to this considering it’s my 9th album, but this time it’s even more intense as I’m in charge of booking my live shows from start to finish. In any case, I am super glad to feel like there’s some action going on after so many months! You will see this newsletter a bit more often from now on, but I hope that like me you rejoice about it :-)))

So, without further ado…

SECOND SINGLE FROM THE NEW ALBUM!

“Mis armas se habían caído al suelo” (My weapons had fallen to the floor) is a declaration of vulnerability, acting as a prologue to what I consider to be the most musically dense and emotionally intense album of my discography. To arrive at its simplicity, brevity and the sonar- like insistence of its first melodic notes, it took me a lot of detours: a totally different song was initially meant to be the opening track, one of the very first I worked on when I started to get acquainted with the Moog Matriarch. I put it aside to keep experimenting and composing, but once I finally completed the rest of the album, I couldn’t help but notice that this first song now sat incongruously along the rest of the material.

“I finally decided to ditch it completely and re-approach the meaning of the words of the title from a different musical perspective: what would metaphorically “putting down my weapons” actually sound like, the peculiar mixture of fear, hope and surrender? I realized that the musical answer lay in a combination of extreme simplicity through three insistent chords and a melodic line acting as a voice that reaches from the abyss and comes up to the surface to stutter, wonder, hesitate, then slowly give in.”

FIRST FLOOR: COLLEEN HAS BETTER TASTE THAN I DO

I was invited by one of the few voices I trust on music industry-related issues, Shawn Reynaldo, who runs the excellent First Floor newsletter, to contribute to his “X has better taste than I do”, where he asks a musician to select a favorite record. I will let you head to the article to find what I selected, and can only recommend you to suscribe to the First Floor Substack, as Shawn writes not only eloquently and elegantly, but also delves deep into numerous important subjects and does not shy away from looking into rarely discussed topics like ethics in the music industry. Insta post here.

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