COLLEEN THE GOLDEN MORNING BREAKS THE LEAF LABEL

Electronic-music wonder Cécile Schott, working under the pseudonym Colleen, has crafted an organic follow-up to her 2003 textural-music calling card Everyone Alive Wants Answers. This time she’s used African kora, flutes, organ, bells, strings, chimes, guitars, and a glass harmonicon sampled and altered and layered via electronic effects to make a hypnotic mood study. Her objective was to create music she could perform on stages rather than just in the studio. Nonetheless, these 10 cuts — which play out like movements in a mini-symphony — are full-sounding, and the tonal warmth of Schott’s arrangements make even the backwards guitar lines of "Everything Lay Still" welcoming. Fans of Brian Eno’s ambient recordings will love Schott’s compositions; those who’ve found Eno’s instrumental work impenetrable may be seduced by the faster evolution and more rhythmic orientation of her work.

Colleen + A Hawk and a Hacksaw + Keith Fullerton Whitman | P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville | August 12 | 617.776.1557