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Elegance and Violence from Sicily, Italy.
This album should be heard by all people who understand both italian and pop music. Italian is required because Carmen is a highly lyric and powerful writer. Her songs are NOT poems, though: they are plain everyday language monologues (she is usually talking to someone) that capture the 'beauty of things'. The beauty of things, Carmen tells us in one of the tracks, likes to hide itself. Carmen's songs are often a successful attempt at unveiling, rediscovering such beauty. Lovers of Pop music will find in Carmen an exceptionally gifted guitarist who manages to transduce a bunch of influences (Tracy Chapman, PJ Harvey, grunge etc.) into a strongly personal style. She is the only artist on the current Italian music scene to have been able to achieve so much. Her music manages to be upsetting (almost violent at times) and elegant at the same time. Carmen is at best enjoyed live. 'Confusa e Felice' is the closest you can get to hear her live. The album was recorded at an amazing speed, during just two weeks. So: listen to the record, and then watch out for the times when Carmen will start performing around the world. That day is not far anymore.
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