COLLEEN + KLIMA

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After almost five years away from the stage, Cécile Schott (aka Colleen), returns to live performance in support of her stunning new album, 'The Weighing of the Heart' - her first for Second Language. Singing for the first time on record, and to dazzling, numinous effect, the dexterous Frenchwoman deploys violas da gamba, guitar, woodwind and Moondog-inspired percussion across a litany of finely wrought tableaux vivant songs. The combined influences of Arthur Russell, Moondog, Brigitte Fontaine and the musics of the African continent loom large in her new work, and the live show will be a direct reflection of this new direction, offering an absorbing fusion of the delicately spun and the rhythmically persuasive, embracing a pastoralism that is both lyrical yet rooted to the earth; at once hazily baroque yet accessible and universal.

Klima is the musical alias of velveteen-voiced Angèle David-Guillou, whose eponymous debut appeared on the Peacefrog label in 2007 to ringing critical endorsement (“a debut all fans of Cocteau Twins, early Björk, Nina Persson or The Knife should buy, if they haven’t already”, opined The Times). In the interim, Angèle has been busy; when not touring the globe both as Klima and in tandem with the band Piano Magic, she has been absorbing the recordings of Moondog, Carl Orff and all manner of African and medieval musics, all of which have fed into the meticulous, open-hearted creation of Klima’s 2010 debut for Second Language, 'Serenades & Serinettes.'