Carmen Villain – Only Love From Now On

Label: Smalltown Supersound – STS399LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Norway
Released: Feb 25, 2022
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Released in February 2022 via Smalltown Supersound, Carmen Villain unleashed her fifth album ‘Only Love From Now On‘ venturing down the experimental side of pensive electronic music presenting seven tracks exploring ambient, downtempo, dub and fourth world music. Think Jan Jelinek meets clarinet.

In her creative process, Carmen admits she doesn’t know exactly what the final result will be, preferring to operate by intuition, and seeing the process as a “conversation” with sound. A texture or melody buried in a field recording can be the spark that becomes a sketch. Those recordings are burned with snatches of instruments such as the flute, voice and clarinet, then disappear into evocative granular soundscapes – places where words cannot express what each instrument does when stripped down past its elements.

A1. Gestures
A2. Future Memory
A3. Liminal Space
A4. Only Love From Now On
B1. Subtle Bodies
B2. Silueta
B3. Portals