''Les Ondes Silencieuses'' (English: ''The Still Waters'') is the third full-length album by French

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artist

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(real name Cécile Schott) released on 21 May 2007. The Japanese release features three bonus live tracks. The name can be interpreted in numerous ways. It can refer to the unusual calmness of still water, sound waves, or the French expression to refer to strange animal behaviour before earthquakes.

Style

The album was made using natural instruments played live, thus keeping with the unsampled style of Schott's last few albums. Her penchant for unusual instrumentation was again evident, with the

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and

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making appearances alongside the more familiar

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and

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. The use of the viola da gamba was inspired by a 15-year-old Schott viewing '' Tous les matins du monde'', a French film (adapted from a novel of the same name) based on the life of

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who played the instrument. The

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aesthetic that had characterised much of Colleen's earlier work was discarded on this release in favour of a more open-ended and unstructured approach. A marine theme is apparent in the name of many of the tracks and in the name of the album itself.

Track listing

All songs were composed and played by Cécile Schott. #"This Place In Time" – 2:33 #"Le Labyrinthe" – 5:15 #"Sun Against My Eyes" – 4:22 #"Les Ondes Silencieuses" – 6:09 #"Blue Sands" – 5:16 #"Echoes And Coral" – 3:09 #"Sea Of Tranquility" – 5:46 #"Past The Long Black Land" – 3:41 #"Le Bateau" – 7:09

Bonus Japanese tracks

"Unfold Out" – 5:36
"Serpentine" – 6:04
"I'll Read You A Story" – 5:18

"Unfold Out" and "Serpentine" were recorded live in Asahi Art Square,

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Credits

Instrumentation

* Cécile Schott –

(tracks 3, 7),

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(track 6),

(track 2) and

(tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 9).

Production credits

Composed Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...

by Cécile Schott * Produced by Cécile Schott and Emiliano Flores * Mixed by Cécile Schott and Emiliano Flores * Recorded by Cécile Schott (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8) and Emiliano Flores (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 9) * Mastering by Emiliano Flores * Artwork by Iker Spozio

External links

Official Leaf Label page for the album
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ondes Silencieuses, Les Colleen (musician) albums 2007 albums The Leaf Label albums