Colleen et les Boîtes à Musique is a 14-track EP by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 artist Colleen (real name Cécile Schott) released on October 2, 2006. It was recorded between 2004 and January 2006 for the atelier de création radiophonique of France Culture

France Culture

France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes , as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions...

, a national radio station, to be played back in a special broadcast. Schott was pleased with the results and soon decided to also release the recordings as an EP. This EP became her second release of 2006, acting as successor to the Mort Aux Vaches

Mort Aux Vaches (Colleen album)

Mort Aux Vaches is a full-length session recording from ambient music artist Colleen, released in 2006 as part of the Mort Aux Vaches music series. Keeping with the style of the series the album is packaged in a hardback case wrapped in textured wallpaper and fastened with a safety pin...

live album released in January.

Thirteen of the fourteen tracks were made entirely using music boxes, accounting for the EP's name which translates into English

English language

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 as "Colleen and the Music Boxes". The exception was track 14, "I'll Read You a Story", which also included classical guitar

Classical guitar

The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...

 and could be found on the 2005 album The Golden Morning Breaks

The Golden Morning Breaks

The Golden Morning Breaks is an album by Colleen, released in 2005. It takes on a more natural and less synthetic sound than its predecessor, 2003's Everyone Alive Wants Answers, which was almost entirely sampled...

. The enhanced CD also included a video for this track.

Track listing

All songs were composed and played by Cécile Schott.

1. "John Levers the Ratchet" – 0:30
2. "What is a Componium?" (Part 1) – 6:44
3. "Charles's Birthday Card" – 0:47
4. "Will You Gamelan for Me?" – 3:01
5. "The Sad Panther" – 1:52
6. "Under the Roof" – 3:09
7. "What is a Componium?" (Part 2) – 3:05
8. "A Bear is Trapped" – 1:04
9. "Please Gamelan Again" – 2:30
10. "Your Heart is so Loud" – 3:56
11. "Calypso in a Box" – 0:47
12. "Bicycle Bells" – 2:28
13. "Happiness Nuggets" – 2:13
14. "I'll Read You a Story" – 6:49 – A video is also included on the enhanced CD.

Instrumentation

• Cécile Schott – music box (tracks 1-14) and classical guitar
  Classical guitar
  The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
  
   (track 14).

Production credits

• Composed
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
   by Cécile Schott
• Produced
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   by Cécile Schott
• Recorded by John Cavanagh (tracks 1, 3-4, 6, 8-9, 11-13) and Cécile Schott (all other tracks)
• Mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  by Emiliano Flores
• Artwork by Iker Spozio

External links

• Official Leaf Label page for the album
• Page featuring video for "I'll Read You a Story"
• Wholphin Volume 2 also features "I'll Read You a Story", on the film "Born Like Stars"