Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réelColleens mastery of the art of sound sculpting is fully displayed on Le Jour et la Nuit du Rel, a beautiful 21 song double album that manages to explore the intersections of the material and the imagined, a sonic odyssey unearthing soul from synthesis. The album is organized into several movements. Each movement employs different synthesis settings, but with distinctive chords and motifs that provide a thorough line, guiding the listener through

specialised in lavishly over-produced

it goes a lot deeper than that

Byrne calls the record “an immersive audio voyage into the little town of Virgil

They’ve risen to the challenge admirably

Featuring liner notes by Michael Nesmith

and it is my belief that a person cannot fight a smile if they will just let him into their heart

Available on limited silver vinyl

he was accompanied in the studio by an all-star musician line-up of P-Funk family members such as Jerome ‘Bigfoot’ Brailey (drums)

He has toured extensively throughout North America

Naham and Sam

The mastering by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound is a homecoming of sorts as legendary mastering engineer Calbi had previously mastered the pair’s infl uential Mavericks outing as well as Falling Off the Sky the last dB’s album

Homme returned to his old stomping grounds and reunited with latter day Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez to record as a fake trio (bass player 'Carlo von Sexron' is a nom-de-boom for Homme) and Queens of the Stone Age came into full bloom