Carmen Villain - Memoria AVERAGE WHITE BAND and they’ve stood the test

and they’ve stood the test of time wonderfully

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Carmen Villain - Memoria AVERAGE WHITE BAND and they’ve stood the testMemoria, Carmen Villains latest album on Smalltown Supersound, begins like an opened valve; exhaling flute chords slowly fill a vast sonic landscape as an invitation for the listener to slow down and enter a state of deep listening. Its an introduction that guides expertly into an album of decelerated, spectral dub, which shimmers, growls and decays across the narratively ordered seven tracks. In this regard, Memoria picks up where Villain left off