Description
Were all on our own unique emotional road trips. Infinite Avenue happens to be Carmens. Here she is, holed up in the Motel Nowheresville, unpacking a suitcase full of stories of guilt, desire, rage, apathy, love and friendship, loneliness, nature, inner demons and other tales of twenty-first century womanhood. Carmen Villain is half-Norwegian and half-Mexican, born in the USA and now living in Oslo, Norway, having moved back after living in London for a few years. She has a lot of stories to tell.
Writing, recording and producing alone, Carmens intensely personal songs are entirely self-created in her makeshift studio, made up of tapestries of guitar, piano, programmed drums and synths, making the most she could out of her limited gear. Once she had arrived at more than enough tracks for a follow-up album to 2013s ‘Sleeper,’ some of them were mixed with experimental house producer Matt Karmil and Quietly was treated by noise improviser Helge Sten (aka Deathprod).
Taboo-busting Norwegian artist Jenny Hval contributes lyrics and vocals on Borders, a song especially relevant among todays tightening frontiers in America and elsewhere. Red Desert is titled after the legendary Antonioni movie about a womans survival tactics in a surreal industrial landscape full of existential crisis. To methe movie feels like a perfect visual representation of what it can be like to be anxious and uncomfortable in your head sometimes, says Carmen. Musically, ‘Infinite Avenue’ has a similar effect.
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