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Organ song 1995 FOR ANIMAL SHELTERS

by Colleen

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THIS SONG IS NOW PART OF MY ANIMAL SHELTER INITIATIVE.
100% OF PROCEEDS GO TO ANIMAL SHELTERS.
NEXT BANDCAMP FRIDAY: 2nd May 2025 - BUT FUNDRAISER #12: Fiel Compañero, Callao, Peru ACTIVE UNTIL THEN

TOTAL COLLECTED for this song at 9th March 2025:
47.00 $
GRAND TOTAL (with other songs) COLLECTED at 9th March 2025: 2151.94 $ SENT TO 13 ORGANIZATIONS
FOR FULL DETAILS ON TOTAL DONATION AMOUNTS GO TO "CONDITIONAL"

- February 2024: SOS Galgos, Barcelona-based organization rescuing galgos (Spanish greyhounds) and other hunting
- March 2024: SOS Galgos
- April and May 2024: Hogar Amor de Galgos, Buenos-Aires based galgo rescue
JUNE-DECEMBER: BREAK TO REST
- December 2024: Las Almas de Tara, Ubeda, Spain - cats and dogs shelter + feeding feral cat colonies in Andalucia

ORGAN SONG 1995
2024 EDIT: I am now 99.99% sure that the original experiment actually happened on a really cheap cassette recorder... So even more primitive!

I wrote many songs before I officially started the Colleen project (I was already 27 when my first album was released in 2003), and I’ve forgotten about most of them as the years have gone by, since I never listen to that phase of my musical growth, the difficult years from 1995 to 2000 in which I knew I wanted to make music on my own, but only had a guitar and a 4-track Fostex tape recorder to do so, hence the very real feeling of being stuck. But there is ONE song which I’ve never forgotten and for which I have a deep affection, and it happens to be a song I made on the Bontempi organ I received in Christmas 1984.
In 1995, I had been playing guitar for 4 years, first acoustic, then electric, first by myself, then in a noisy-pop-rock group with friends for 2 years, from the age of 17 to 19. The group ended in 1995 and while I’d loved playing in that group, I also knew that I wasn’t really made for the...  more

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released September 30, 2017
Recorded by Cécile Schott in 1995, Bontempi avril organ, home tape recorder.

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Colleen Barcelona, Spain

French musician Cécile Schott, 8 albums since 2003. Thrill Jockey Records, LP8 Le jour et la nuit du réel. Fundraising for human beings (> 1.9K$) and animals here (> 2.1K$).

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