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Carmen Villain

Only Love From Now On

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Smalltown Supersound)

£ 19.85*

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Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The US-born, Norwegian-Mexican musician and producer Carmen Villain, real name Carmen Hillestad, has spent the last nine years and four albums gently unraveling song into the sound of emotional impulse. From the tilt and croon of her first two albums to the expansive warmth that flows and pulses beyond ambient in her more recent output, Hillestad's journey is artful musical deconstruction but also somehow spiritual growth. Hence new album Only Love From Now On, her fourth full-length and the culmination of a build-up that really began with the turn in sound evident from third album Both Lines Will Be Blue (2019, Smalltown Supersound) and the subsequent releases Affection In A Time Of Crisis (2020, Longform Editions) and Sketch For Winter IX: Perlita (2021, Geographic North). While the seed of her aesthetic was planted earlier, it has blossomed into something unexpected, benevolent in its composure and altogether luxuriant in its sensuality. If her themes, especially now, are wide, philosophical, and occasionally abstract, the emotional tenor of Hillestad's music is clear and purposeful. Makes sense that her key musical touchstones are dub, ambient, and cosmic jazz - flexible vehicles for tranquil wonder. While it may not contain voice or lyrics, as her two earliest records do, she describes it as, "wishing to maintain a sense of careful optimism for the future, while on the cusp of something unknown." Listening to Only Love From Now On is simultaneously comforting and alluringly strange. Partly it's the contributions of guests Arve Henriksen (trumpet, electronics) and Johanna Scheie Orellana (flutes). Partly it's the fluidity between instruments - such as clarinets - field recordings, the studio, jam, and careful composition. She calls the process a conversation with sound that occurs in her deliberate attempts to experiment with new methods, like granular synthesis, for her music-making. But mostly that strange comfort is in the peace and grateful contentment she has found via the stark recognition of her own privilege - laid bare by the pandemic. Only Love From Now On is fueled by the sense of scale in feeling small in the face of things so large, the contemplation of how the biggest impact we can have is in the people close to us, the attempt to make sure that impact is a positive one, and the choice to try to focus on love instead of fear.

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Carmen Villain

Both Lines Will Be Blue Remixed

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Smalltown Supersound)

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Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Norwegian producer Carmen Villain follows up last years cosmic beauty - Both Lines Will Be Blue - with a remix mini-album. Curated by Carmen, she asked some of her favourite producers to pick a track from the album to remix, which resulted in this collection of 6 tracks and 31 minutes of cosmic/dubs, featuring club ready tracks by Parris and Karima F., deep atmospheric reggaetón by DJ Python, fourth-world jams by D.K. and Yu Su and a far out dancehall dub by Jay Glass Dubs.

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Carmen Villain

Nutrition EP

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Smalltown Supersound)

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Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Carmen Villain descends deeper into the mutant dub vortex on 'Nutrition', infusing the residue of classic Pole/~Scape, Mark Ernestus and vintage Chain Reaction with a mossy potency that surprisingly and rather brilliantly lines up next to recent work by Carrier and the flickering embers of T++.

After a critically acclaimed last proper album, 'Only Love From Now On', last year's sensual (almost beatless) 'Music from the Living Monument', and a pair of 12” collabs with Huerco S. and Actress, Villain sinks further into viscous dub on this one, keeping it strictly moody, in thrall to the deepest bass vibrations.

Undulating, rubbery thuds poke thru a swarming drone on ‘Disig’, assisted by legendary Norwegian trumpet player Eivind Lønning, whose lip smacks and intakes of breath are woven tightly between the giddy shuffles. Exactly what's electronic and what isn’t remains entirely unclear; the track snakes in on itself, rattling and rushing until it dissipates completely and all that’s left is the hum of the studio.

She meets burial mix subs with trilling concrète knocks on the title track, blunting each sound so the rhythm seems to shift beneath waterlogged dirt and sand. Like that opener, it all feels perplexingly electro-acoustic, never losing its groove; with the propulsive smack of T++'s enduring 'Wireless' muddled with the marooned smokiness of Andrew Pekler to keep the track breathing without overcomplicating things for a second.

On 'Marka', Villain turns environmental recordings into a rippling phantom pulse. There's the fizzing dub assymetry of Pole on show, but she tears away from her influences by training her focus on the music's lysergic qualities, not its blazed effect. At times, 'Nutrition' is as hypnotic as Sam Dunscombe's 'Two Forests', fractalising its rolling subs and nervous kicks with haunted, dissociated creaks from far beyond the pineal.

It’s all intricately constructed, deceptively bare-boned, special stuff.

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Carmen Villain

Music From The Living Monument

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Smalltown Supersound)

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Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Carmen Villain follows last years ‘Only Love From Now On’ with this new full length exploration of soporific, slow-moving ambience and disemboweled dub, a score she composed for a contemporary dance performance by acclaimed Choreographer Eszter Salamon. Simply put, it’s one of the most captivating things we’ve heard this year; all luxurious texture-cycles in possession of a delirious, dreamlike quality that hits a rarified spot somewhere between Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works Vol.II’, classic Chain Reaction and Jim O'Rourke’s meditative electronic recordings.

‘Music from the Living Monument’ was written for choreographer Eszter Salamon's dance performance of the same name, a lavish and sculptural show for 14 performers dressed in ornamental fabrics (which you can see on the album art) while surrounded by slowly shifting environments. Carmen reflects the measured gestures of the dancers, ruminating on slowness and burying instrumentation in sensual abstraction.

Edited down from almost 3 hours of music, the album opens with ‘Multicolor’ and triggers the same sense of suspended animation you get from ‘Selected Ambient Works Vol.II’, its brooding mix of glacial gestures and fizzing pads suggestive of fuzzed, liminal states. From here it only gets deeper and more disorienting, peaking with the frankly majestic ‘Silver’, deployed at a pace that makes Rhythm & Sound’s beatless dub abstractions seem almost giddy by comparison. Villain locks us into infinitesimal movements with a slow, heartbeat-thud of a bassdrum crumbling around choral pads that grow in intensity over its 9 minute duration. Its one of those pieces you could get lost in for hours, such is the power of its swirling, meditative vibrations.

‘Pink’ ends the set by flexing more angular muscle, contorting what sounds like glassy clangs into electroacoustic pulses in a way that feels effortlessly engrossing, harmonising with Jim O'Rourke's stunning 'Hands That Bind' OST. Microtonality is an overused buzzword right now, but Carmen penetrates the essence of its magick, emphasising sensuality and mysticism in a way that feels like someone whispering softly into your ear as you pass from the waking world into a deep, dreamless sleep.

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