Carmen Villain Announces New Album Memoria
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- Carmen Villain announced her new album Memoria, set for September 4 release on Smalltown Supersound, three years after her 2022 LP Only Love From Now On.
- Memoria takes its title from Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2021 film of the same name.
- Villain cited pioneering electronic composer Pauline Oliveros' "writings on internally recalled sounds" as a key inspiration for the project, per press materials.
- The lead single "Entre Nosotros" has been released alongside the album announcement.
- Memoria spans seven tracks: Labour of Imagination, Entre Nosotros, Memoria, Hope Synapses, Blue, Holding a Shape, and Omriss.
Why it matters: Villain's third Smalltown Supersound release arrives three years after Only Love From Now On, rooting the project in Oliveros' deep-listening philosophy and Weerasethakul's contemplative cinema. For ambient and experimental listeners, the September 4 record extends a catalog that treats sound as recalled interior experience.
