Colleen: Captain of None

Dub techniques and ancient string instruments

Imagine the Paris suburbs in the mid-1980s. Now imagine a young girl driving around with her parents, listening to a tape of Jamaican dub wizard Lee Perry.

The girl’s name is Cécile Schott; she will later be known as the artist Colleen, her music heavily influenced by being exposed to Perry’s tunes at an early age.

Picking up the guitar in high school, …