Carmen Villain Announces Memoria, Shares New Single “Entre Nosotros”

Carmen Villain has set September 4 as the release date for Memoria, her next album on Smalltown Supersound. It follows the quietly acclaimed Only Love From Now On and extends the composer’s patient, textural approach to electronic and acoustic sources.

Lead single “Entre Nosotros” is built from a sparse, unstable pulse, with Villain’s clarinet threading through contributions by flutist Johanna Orellana and trumpeter Eivind Lønning. The track doesn’t develop so much as settle into a half-lit drift—objects floating past at a distance, their outlines blurred. The effect is less ambient wallpaper than a deliberate reconstruction of something partially recalled.

Across seven pieces with titles like “Labour Of Imagination” and “Hope Synapses,” Memoria appears to stay close to this method: pulling from the past, recontextualizing, leaving space for what won’t quite resolve. Villain is working within a growing field of experimental composition that draws wider notice, yet her music remains stubbornly interior. It asks for attention without demanding it.