Artist Info: Carmen Villain

Carmen Villain (real name: Carmen Hillestad) is a Norwegian musician signed to the Smalltown Supersound label (Lindstrøm, Todd Terje, Neneh Cherry, Annie). Her 2013 debut album "Sleeper" contains raunchy guitar and vocal oriented indie pop, with a defiantly DIY underground free-rock sound. Mostly recorded in a former nuclear bunker in Oslo, half of the album was produced by Carmen herself, the other half by Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh), with [read more...]