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Carmen Quill

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Bass player, songwriter.
New album “Harmless” out Nov 6
@tiltsounds, Scree, etc
Release show w/ Jacob Sacks & Billy Hart Sunday 10/4 at @nyc_close_up

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A little ditty by @carmenquill

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🦚 RELEASE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT 🦚
Mark your calendars!! Celebrating “Harmless” Nov 19 at Threes

The record comes out Nov 6 on @ruinationrecordco

Really excited to share this music live, joined by @ivanplaysmusic , @kalia.vandever , @ktinatee , @ryan_el_solh and @jburgerdrums

And so stoked we’ll get to hear @alexabarchini - check out her new album if you haven’t already!!

Poster by the inimitable @benedict.kupstas by @carmenquill

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Tonite, Wednesday October 7th
SCREE: Ryan El-Sohl | Carmen Quill | Jason Burger
 LunÀtico warmly welcomes SCREE featuring Ryan El-Solh, Carmen Quill, Jason Burger to our bandstand! Join us!  @ryan_el_solh ~ guitar @carmenquill ~ bass @jburgerdrums ~ drums

***TWO SETS: 9PM & 10:15PM*** ***$10 (CASH) SUGGESTED DONATION*** ***LUNATICO HAS A FULL DINNER AND COCKTAIL MENU SO COME EARLY TO EAT!***  SCREE is an instrumental trio made up of Ryan El-Solh on guitar, Carmen Quill on bass, and Jason Burger on drums. After nearly a decade playing together they have developed a near-telepathic rapport, which they put to work interpreting El-Solh’s impressionistic compositions. Scree’s sound draws on an eclectic range of influences from Ellington to Brahms to Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani. Pitchfork described their 2023 debut album, Jasmine On A Night In July, as “spellbinding.” by @carmenquill

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@carmenquill & @adeline.hotel fall tour ~

Carmen will have just released her masterpiece ‘Harmless’ & AH on the verge of announcing something new, not to be missed!

Art by @benedict.kupstas by @carmenquill

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RELEASE SHOW THIS SUNDAY
Carmen Quill / Jacob Sacks / Billy Hart
“I’ll Be Thinking of You on Thursday”
October 4, 9:30 & 11pm
Orchard Street Jazz Festival
@nyc_close_up

What a complete honor and joy it is to play with these two!!

Thank you @isaacgillespiedotcom for these beautiful photos from the live recording earlier this year at Close Up.

Thank you Next Jazz Legacy/ @newmusicusa for supporting this project. taken in Close Up NYC by @carmenquill

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“Plaza”, the second single from Carmen Quill’s ‘Harmless’ is out today!

In Carmen’s words:

Plaza was originally an instrumental tune that I wrote while sitting in a red brick plaza on the Stanford campus one summer (I was there teaching at a jazz camp). Later I reworked it into a song with lyrics about navigating the aftermath of a breakup and ultimately growing past it into something brighter. After years of performing this song as a solo voice and acoustic bass, I realized there was a whole soundworld I had been imagining around it. It’s been gratifying to bring that imagined world to life through the production on this track - it was a very intuitive, playing-in-the-sandbox kind of process.

‘Harmless’ is out November 6 and save the date for a November 19 Brooklyn release show celebration, details to come soon!

📸 @l.esley by @carmenquill

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🅿🅁🅴🄼🅸🄴🆁🄴

@carmenquill‘s 'Plaza 'opens her forthcoming album Harmless with the feeling of a deep breath after a difficult conversation. The Brooklyn bassist, composer, and singer builds the track around hushed vocals and swelling synths, creating an intimate space where emotional tension can slowly loosen its grip.

ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕗 'ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕫𝕒’, 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕖𝕓𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕖. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕝𝕤𝕠 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕋𝕦𝕓𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕝.

𝕙𝕥𝕥𝕡𝕤://𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔.𝕠𝕣𝕘
𝕙𝕥𝕥𝕡𝕤://𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕜𝕥𝕣.𝕖𝕖/𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝

#premiere #newmusic #experimental #avantpop #singersongwriter by @carmenquill

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18 days ago

SUNDAY OCT 4
Carmen Quill / Jacob Sacks / Billy Hart
“I’ll Be Thinking of You on Thursday” Album Release Show
Sets at 9:30 & 11pm
Orchard Street Jazz Festival
@nyc_close_up by @carmenquill

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18 days ago

HOUSE SHOW THIS SUNDAY
@almost.olive / Carmen Quill
Bed Stuy, 7:30PM, DM FOR ADDRESS!!

almost olive is a very great band and this is a rare chance to hear them in NYC. I advise you not to miss!!

I’ll be sharing songs from my new album🌪️ Harmless 🌪️, solo and with @ryan_el_solh taken in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn by @carmenquill

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24 days ago

‘I’ll Be Thinking of You on Thursday’ by Carmen Quill OUT TODAY on all platforms sans Spotify. Transport yourself to the club from wherever you may be listening, link to our bandcamp page in bio.

CARMEN QUILL - Bass
Jacob Sacks - Piano
Billy Hart - Drums

Recorded live at Close Up January 10th, 2026

Producer: @solomongottfried
Executive Producer: Daniel Gaynor
Recording Engineer: @88jimmykatz
Mix & Master: @eivindopsvik at Greenwood Underground
Album Art: @_timwatson by @carmenquill

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My album “Harmless” is available for preorder on bandcamp! The first single/title track is out now - here’s a clip of the visualizer which features art by @benedict.kupstas . So happy to have @ivanplaysmusic on clarinet and @nydanalyn on viola on this track and throughout the album! Full album is out Nov 6 on @ruinationrecordco

#bandcampfriday by @carmenquill

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𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥 (𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟔)

Beyond excited to share that there is a new @carmenquill record out on November 6, and you can hear the first single and title track today!

If there’s one artist who embodies what Ruination strives to be, it’s Carmen. A frequent collaborator with so many artists in the family, and a truly singular visionary composer, singer, and performer.

Vinyl & CDs for preorder at the link in bio, and the single out now everywhere you hear music.

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On her sophomore full-length album Harmless, upright bassist, singer, and composer Carmen Quill allows new voices into her intimate, self-questioning musical conversations. The Brooklyn-based artist’s avant-pop songs are centered around down-to-earth mantras—sometimes murmured notes-to-self, sometimes impassioned expressions of devotion, sometimes jazz-inflected bass motifs that express just as much as her pithily insightful lyrics. Her melodies are as unconventional and unassumingly virtuosic as those of her spiritual ancestors Meredith Monk and Björk; her bass provides as dynamic and surprising a primary accompaniment to her mercurial vocal phrases as Joanna Newsom’s harp.

For all the refinement of its arrangements and the cleverness of its compositional feints, Quill’s music always manages to convey a sense of childlike wonder. Her central melodic phrases don’t feel “written” as much as captured during the process of invention. Each seems to take place within “one long moment” (as Quill says in “Across the waves,” an otherworldly baroque-pop ballad which borrows phrases from Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse). The listener becomes aligned with Quill’s self-discovery as it happens. Once we internalize everything that makes this music so special—the mercurial structures, the enveloping sense of three-dimensionality, the bittersweet humor, the ways in which Quill’s words, aaahs and hmmms can express the same depth of feeling—the space left for our own personal reflection feels infinite. The songs on Harmless are snapshots of processes in motion, ones that seem to have begun long before we started tuning in and will continue for long afterwards. by @carmenquill

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