Captain Of None

Album available on CD and vinyl on Thrill Jockey's website and all major and small retailers. Bonus tracks "I'm Kin Version" and "Captain of Dub" for limited Japanese edition on Plancha available on Itunes. My fifth album, recorded in the spring and early summer of 2014 in San Sebastián, Spain. For the first time in my album-making I chose to restrict myself to a very limited number of instruments: treble viola da gamba, voice, and occasional percussion, to better explore the possibilities of a Jamaican-dub-era-influenced style of production, with a heavy emphasis on my Moogerfooger analog delay and digital emulations of spring reverb, tape delay and other echo-producing devices… I finger-picked my treble viola da gamba and used an Octaver pedal to generate bass lines, and fell in love head over heels with the sound. Coupled with the fact that this was the first time I recorded an album in the spring, this was undoubtedly my most fulfilling album-recording experience so far!

Captain of None is the sixth solo album from French multi-instrumentalist Cécile Schott. She's still working with her Renaissance-era instrument treble viola da gamba, but is now using it in particularly inventive ways.

Despite what you might hear on Captain of None, Colleen is a folk musician at heart. Although over five full-lengths, Cécile Schott (a.k.a....