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Colleen since 2002. Barcelona. Libres 20/03/26 +TOUR Fundraising Bandcamp >7.6K$ 🫂>4K🐶🐱 >3.6K Synch press booking: colleenplays.org/contacts
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MATRIARCH DEEP DIVE @elevatorsound_eu FULL WORKSHOP ON YOUTUBE
The ending of "Libres antes del final", the last and title track of my new album, played last year on May 10th at @elevatorsound_eu as part of my @moogsynthesizers Matriarch deep dive, now available in full on Youtube in Spanish, with English subtitles (LINK IN BIO).
I had just completed the song, as well as "Antídoto", when I gave the workshop, which really galvanized me and was my birthday present to myself that year (if you look closely you'll see flowers in the modular racks!)
Hope you enjoy this snippet, and I hope that some of you will watch the workshop, in which I also talk about my approach to generating emotion, ambivalence and a sense of dialogue through synthesis and composition.
Massive thanks to all involved @elevatorsound_eu @elevatorsoundbristol @rodrigo_notari
#moogmatriarch
10 Apr 2026
"Antídoto" live @elevatorsound_eu: breakdown of middle section, 100% @moogsynthesizers Matriarch, hope you like it, any questions feel free to ask!
FULL VIDEO LINK IN BIO
Libres antes del final, my 9th album, is out on 20th March @thrilljockey .
Today is Bandcamp Friday, so a good day to preorder the album if you are ok with shipping from the US - same for Thrill Jockey shop orders.
If you want your order to be shipped from Germany or the UK, please choose Anost and Norman Records respectively - this is the best way to support us directly.
ALL LINKS IN BIO
More from me soon with the next single and new live dates 😀
🙏🙏🙏 @rodrigo_notari @elevatorsound_eu @thrilljockey @moogsynthesizers
#moogmatriarch
06 Feb 2026
"NIGHT LOOPING – MVT II” LIVE VIDEO FEATURING SOL + “NIGHT LOOPING - MOVEMENTS I -II-III” SINGLES OUT + YOUTUBE CHANNEL+ BANDCAMP LISTENING PARTY 17 09
The past month has been intense in many ways and I can’t quite believe that in 15 days I’ll finally be flying to the US to start my tour on the very day of the album release @thrilljockey : as usual, you wait and wait for something, and then when it’s about to happen, it almost doesn’t feel quite real… which is part of the theme of this album!
Today you can listen to the suite of 3 movements that closes the album, “Night looping”, a homage to insomnia, to laying in bed at night and thinking in loops about the best and the worst that could happen to you, or that may already have happened to you… Available on all platforms.
I hope you will enjoy this video of "Movement II", which I shot in the sleepy presence of my beloved Sol one week ago. Technical explanations are in the subtitles of the video, and as usual, I’ll be happy to reply to any question you may have! As with the whole album, this song uses only one synth, the @moogsynthesizers Grandmother, and one delay, in this case the Moogerfooger MF-104M. Nothing else, and no digital production involved.
I love that in these videos you get to see up close how I recorded the music, but also how I will play it live! On tour I will play the whole album, 1 hour, 21 movements, and I really can’t wait for the pleasure and the challenge of it. All dates are in my Songkick or on my website.
This video also gives me the opportunity to tell you I am launching my own YOUTUBE CHANNEL: no, I’m not going to have the time to create a lot of “content” there, but yes, I really wanted to host the video content I’ve created over the years on a platform that’s less volatile than Instagram and that lets you see the content on a full screen. LINK IN BIO.
Last but not least, I am thrilled to tell you there is a Bandcamp listening party of Le jour on 17th September 1:00 PM CDT: we listen to the album, followed by a Q&A, in which I’ll be super happy to reply to your questions (including the tech stuff, OF COURSE). LINK IN BIO to register (it’s free of course).
#mooggrandmother
#moogmf104m
06 Sep 2023
LIBRES ANTES DEL FINAL at JOHNNY BRENDA'S, PHILADELPHIA, 3rd MAY 2026 + NEW DATES TBA SOON!
It's "only" taken me 6 months longer than planned to post a new video from my US tour back in May, but I am slowly recovering the energy needed to organize these memories that are both personal but also belong to you the audience members who came to the shows :-))))
I absolutely cherish that US tour as well as the dates I played in Europe, which felt so special on every level, not just because of the audience, not just because I adore playing this album live, but also because the context of having just lost my dad made the experience of playing live truly life-affirming.
I loved the show in New York @publicrecordsnyc the previous day at Public Records, but Philly was the first place on the tour where I really had time to settle at the merch table and let people come to me, and this was the start of what I loved best about this tour (both in the US and Europe): the amount of real-life in-person exchange that happened thanks to being there in the flesh.
The show happened thanks to @davep_makingtime so thanks again so much Dave, @johnnybrendas for having us and @manna.hz_ for her beautiful opening set and for lending me her impeccable Matriarch so generously.
Last but not least, I will be announcing new live dates soon, including one in a city close to my heart.
📷🙏🙏🙏 @cosmiclyssy @jerrykaba @soporus.music
08 Nov 2026
FIRST JAPAN TOUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY
20 years ago, I embarked on my first Japanese tour, my first time ever in Japan, such an important event on my artistic and personal journey that I want to take the time to commemorate it today.
A few months earlier, I had received the most extraordinary email from a person completely unknown to me, Kazuki Tomita, who ran the Windbell label: he had dreamt - literally - that Colleen and legendary UK folk artist Bridget St John were on a tour of Japan together, and when he woke up, he decided to write to both of us. We both accepted.
I had just obtained my sabbatical from my teaching job and was about to record my third album Les ondes silencieuses: it is no coincidence that it's my most minimal and minimalist album, and I believe traditional Japanese aesthetics and concepts still influence my life and work.
I fell in love with Japan during the course of these slightly surreal 9 days that basically consisted in letting ourselves be guided to and inside the cities we were playing: Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya and Tokyo where we played 2 shows.
On the tour were 2 other Japanese artists, Kama Aina and Moose Hill, and in Osaka we were joined by mama! milk.
People's generosity (audience members bringing personally-made presents at the end of the shows, friends of friends who welcomed us or cooked for us, Moto our driver...), the food, the attention to detail in everything, the traditional beauty of Kyoto and Ohara nearby, the authenticity of Tokyo's Yanaka, and the pure luck of Moto driving us to his favorite place, Hasegawa Museum, on the way from Kyoto to Mount Fuji, one of the most stunning places I've ever had the chance to visit, with a magical grey cat and the most beautiful elderly couple...
I also fell in love with the world of ceramics on that trip, which served me well when I went through a dry musical period just a couple of years later, as learning ceramics in Paris basically kept me sane through this uncomfortable period.
20 years later I still feel grateful 30-year-old me got so incredibly lucky.
Thank you so much Kazuki Tomita and my travel companions ❤
📷 1 Bridget @bridgetstjohn and stained glass artist Safumi Tokunaga, Osaka
30 Oct 2026
DOUBLE FUNDRAISER TOMORROW BANDCAMP FRIDAY 4th September 2026
FOR ANIMAL SHELTERS #15: Mashala Shelter, Zifta, Lebanon @mashalashelter ; Sky Sanctuary, Phoenix, Arizona @skysanctuaryrescue
FOR HUMANITARIAN CAUSES #9: Doctors without Borders G.z. Fund @doctorswithoutborders @medicossinfronteras.espana (as last month)
LINKS IN BIO
UPDATE: $640.77 collected on Bandcamp Friday, $729.68 collected in total over the last month ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
553.83$ for animal shelters: $276.91 to @mashalashelter $276.91 to @skysanctuaryrescue
+ $88.91 collected last month to @lasalmasdetara
$86.94 for "Special Versions" to @doctorswithoutborders
Thank you so much for your contributions to yet another super succesful fundraiser, I am so happy you love "Amor" so much and it means so much to me that the dark moment of my father's death is now being transformed into loving action towards animals everywhere, thanks to the courage and dedication of people who work tirelessly to save and cure them.
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A little too exhausted to tell you much, especially since I am running this fundraiser from my phone as I am away from home, but you know how this rolls, and you know how much it means to me.
A simple look, even brief, at those 3 organizations pages will tell you all you need to know.
There is also a beautiful article in The Guardian on Mashala Shelter's founder, Houssein Hamze: what an incredible story, what an incredible person...
As always thank you so much.
BC Friday lasts 24 hours and starts at 9 am Central European Time - 3 am EST - 12 am (midnight) PDT.
03 Sep 2026
WEIRD SUMMER
The summer is drawing to an end, it went by spectacularly fast for me, even though I definitely did not do anything extraordinary by contemporary standards, though by my own personal standards releasing "Amor" and its first fundraiser were amazing, and I guess finally mounting my modular case could also count as extraordinary!
I mostly spent my days indoors resting, doing a bit of physical activity and slowly learning my modular setup, which proved to be the perfect daytime activity to escape the stifling heat of Barcelona that has gone on relentlessly for more than 3 months. It did feel weird to sit in the comfort of my air-conditioned home while France and Spain were burning to unprecedent levels.
My modular case got more filled as the summer went on (special thanks @vostok_instruments for the trust), but it's probably going to stay like this for a while, as I was able to experiment first-hand the oft-described rabbit-hole effect of modular practice. I am glad I did not go into modular earlier, as it is definitely hitting some "tender" points regarding the interaction between consumerism and creativity, technology and emotional depth. In short: I am definitely going to need to spend months and months doing the groundwork for the next album using this case + the @moogsynthesizers Matriarch, as expected and as normal for me, since I always learn a new instrument with each album. However, it has never been clearer to me that no amount of technical knowhow can substitute a deeper artistic intention and an all-encompassing commitment to place real life in all its complex facets face to face with music-making to see what can and indeed must emerge, as opposed to tinkering endlessly with "gear".
I have had more visits than usual at the studio, have had super interesting conversations and saw topnotch patching in action, but as always my most constant companions are Sol and Klee. SLIDE 2: MOD WIGGLER REFERENCE 😸 They are both getting older (Klee 10, Sol 13 soon) and since Sol likely has some health issue going on as he's been losing weight, I'm trying to make extra sure they feel welcome in the studio 😻😻
As always thank you for your support 🙏🙏🙏
30 Aug 2026
CELEBRATING 3 YEARS OF FUNDRAISING AND $7,000 SPLIT EQUALLY BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS AND ANIMALS.
“Donor: someone who gives money, blood, or organs.” What a definition. One that reminds us that donating is never a small gesture.
And what a perfect symbol I have been given following the launch of "Amor" on the last Bandcamp Friday on 7th August: you gave a total of 1102.31$ in 24 hours, which means that after 3 years of fundraising, the donations across my 2 fundraising initiatives (animal/human) have now matched each other almost perfectly, with $3,456.25 collected for 18 animal shelters, $3,546.90 for 5 humanitarian organizations, now totalling $,7003.15.
A perfect symbol, because I have always thought both initiatives were equally important. Perhaps I started with animals because it seemed easier somehow, more obvious perhaps too since animals don't have a voice, but I think I also somehow did not feel "legitimate" enough to start fundraising for my own species. I was proven wrong thanks to your generosity.
This is probably the most overwhelmed we have been as a species, and this time the overwhelm coincides with a planet that has also reached a point of implosion. In these circumstances, it is totally understandable to feel nothing makes (much of) a difference, therefore I extend a deep thank you to each one of you who has made the gesture of making a donation, no matter how small.
I also do want to extend a special thank you to my “repeat donors”, who have made a huge difference in the total amount collected, as they tend to be the most generous with their donations, across multiple instances.
I am also indebted to the people who have been involved in one way or another: Jason Daniello @jasonadamdaniello formerly @moogsynthesizers, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts @attenboroughctr , Kane Aris @kanearis and Oswaldo Terrones @owt_taller_de_sonido for sound, Andrés Gomez Servín @gomez_servin_andres and Daniel Castrejón @dnks_mx for design.
This is far from over, so stay tuned. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Music: "Conditional", the song that started all in July 2023.
LINKS IN BIO colleencolleen. bandcamp. com
11 Aug 2026
BANDCAMP FRIDAY 7th AUGUST 2026
Double fundraiser today, for animals and for humans :-) LINKS IN BIO
FUNDRAISER FOR ANIMALS #14 WITH "AMOR"
Sulala Animal Rescue, G. z.@sulalaanimalrescue
Little Steps Matter, Bali @littlestepsmatter
Santuario Gaia, Spain @fundacionsantuariogaia
UPDATE: 1102.31$ raised ❤🙏
+ HUMANITARIAN FUNDRAISER #8 @doctorswithoutborders UPDATE: 220.58$ raised
You can read about the birth of "Amor" in the slides above and on the song's Bandcamp page.
All I will say about the song here is that it is very close to my heart, as it is linked to my father's passing in March, which was anything but a peaceful death, and recording it a couple of weeks ago was not easy as it meant I had to revisit those emotions.
Whenever I played it live, it was such an intense moment, and I know it was for many people too, as you told me so afterwards.
As I selected the shelters and rescue organizations, I realized more than ever the parallel between human lives and animal ones when it comes to the worst cases of abuse, disease, old age, neglect, abandonment, invisibility and now climate disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, and of course war.
In the middle of war, @sulalaanimalrescue take care of dogs and cats, but also donkeys and horses.
In Bali, @littlestepsmatter 's main focus is on dogs with severe injuries and skin conditions.
Near Girona, Spain, @fundacionsantuariogaia
are home to more than 500 rescued farm animals, escaping neglect and death thanks to the sanctuary.
I really hope you will join me in this new round of this initiative with which we already raised 2200$, at a moment that feels particularly urgent and crucial.
🙏🙏🙏 @dnks_mx artwork @owt_taller_de_sonido mixing
PS: my other songs "Conditional", "A Flame Variations (Live in the Moog Soundlab)", "Mort aux Vaches" and "Organ Song 1995" are still part of this initiative!
#moogmatriarch
07 Aug 2026
HUMANITARIAN FUNDRAISING #8 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS G.Z. FUND @doctorswithoutborders @msf_fr @medicossinfronteras.espana TOMORROW BANDCAMP FRIDAY 7th AUGUST: "SPECIAL VERSIONS - LIVE AT ACCA, BRIGHTON". Link in bio.
On 6th December 2024, I launched a humanitarian fundraising initiative on my Bandcamp, thanks to a wonderful live recording of a show containing exclusive music I gave at the amazing sounding Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in Brighton, UK @attenboroughctr
Long story short: most of the fundraising went to P.l.stin and L.b.n.n, and in just 7 fundraisers we gathered 3358.27 $.
Just before my US tour in early May, I decided, as a measure of personal safety, to put all the posts related to this fundraising in the trash section of both my Instagram/Facebook (Meta) accounts and my Wordpress-run website. Doing it felt really wrong, but I didn't want to take any chances considering the rapid and preoccupying changes in visa and immigration policy.
I am a one-woman operation when it comes to Colleen (my only permanent professional partners are my label and my synch licencing agency) and I did experience burn out while touring this year, as I booked all the shows myself and ended up with a huge admin and logistics load.
Maintaining this Instagram account and my website is surprisingly more work than one would imagine, so that when I came back from the US tour, while retrieving those posts from the trash was indeed a priority, I kept postponing it because I had all the European shows to work on. When I got down to it, slightly more than 1 month had passed, and I found out there is a 1-month limit to trash being kept in Meta and Wordpress...
I was truly gutted. I poured my heart and a considerable amount of time into this fundraising, and while the important thing is to have gathered and sent the money, I do think the visibility of it is important, and it is certainly part of who I am both as a person and a musician.
So here is a post presenting the project to you again, and I hope you will join me on both the humanitarian and animal fundraising tomorrow.
🙏🙏🙏 @kanearis @gomez_servin_andres @la_ducceschi @laura___mcd
#mooggrandmother #mf104
06 Aug 2026
"AMOR", OUT THIS FRIDAY 7th AUGUST 2026:
BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE RELEASE TO FUNDRAISE FOR ANIMALS 🐶🐱🐷🦊🐄🐐🐗🐴🐒
Reviving my fundraising initiative through which we sent 2,200$ to 14 organizations in less than 2 years. 100% proceeds to selected animal shelters and rescue organizations.
More info this Friday, please save the date 🙏🙏🙏
Bandcamp Fridays are days on which Bandcamp does not take its 15% commission, making it the ideal day to fundraise.
BC Friday lasts 24 hours and starts at 9 am Central European Time - 3 am EST - 12 am (midnight) PDT.
Thank you so much Daniel Castrejón @dnks_mx for the artwork and design and Oswaldo Terrones @owt_taller_de_sonido for the additional mixing.
#moogmatriarch @moogsynthesizers
04 Aug 2026
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03 Aug 2026
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