LISTEN
Album art by Benedict Kupstas
Listen: Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere (2021, Ruination Record Co.)
Pitchfork - The Best Jazz and Experimental Music of 2021 : “The album thrives on the meeting of reservation and vulnerability, and its songs feel as emotional and virtuosic as a power ballad yet are sparse and withholding as a Rembrandt.” -Matthew Strauss
“Carmen Q. Rothwell has created a unique work of art that is relatively experimental in its structure but musically seductive enough to win fans of all stripes on this stunning, elegant closing track and the preceding five songs.” -Chris Ingalls, Popmatters
“Scree bassist Carmen Q. Rothwell released one of the quietest, most patient records of the year, a powerful rumination on grief and coping with being the one left behind. Her voice has the rare quality of being both hushed and strong, each note delivered with pin-like accuracy. It’s the kind of record that you can almost forget is on, in the way that its universe envelops you and becomes your entire reality.” -Michael Cormier, Dear Life Records
Listen: Jasmine on a Night in July by Scree (2023, Ruination Record Co.)
Album art by Aude Nasr
Scree is: Ryan El-Solh, guitar + compositions; Carmen Quill, bass; Jason Burget, drums
Pitchfork - The Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023 : “The Brooklyn trio adds keys, organ, and woodwinds to support the weight of history as received through the work of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and the legacy of Arabic music in jazz. The mood is reflective and poignantly unresolved, the story never finished so long as it’s still being told. Scree tell it the way the best history books do: rich in tradition with a flair for melodrama and plenty of time to take in the scenery.” –Anna Gaca
“…the sense of synchronous feeling that makes their debut so enchanting, as if all three are singing the same wordless story in uncanny harmony. Not unlike Tortoise and Labradford in the mid ’90s, Jasmine on a Night in July feels like the proper introduction to a significant new piece of the American instrumental rock landscape, familiar threads woven into fabric that feels novel.” - Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork
Listen: Out of Coffee by O’K (2023, self-released)
Album art by Keith Beckley
Ryan El-Solh, guitar; Carmen Quill, bass; Gregg Keplinger, drums
“Alongside discordant harmonies and decaying pop cadence, the trio’s magic is in constructing joyful and colorful play on a sparse canvas. The subversion is never nullifying: love for these standards is palpable and the jocularity of three old friends riffing is necessarily infectious.” -Akshaj Turebylu, Earshot
Listen / watch: GHOST by Asa Horvitz
Visit the interactive site to hear music and see images from the work which premiered in Vienna in 2023. GHOST LP will be released in 2024. Performances by Asa Horvitz, Carmen Quill, Ariadne Randall, and Wayne Horvitz. Music co-directed by Carmen Quill.
Photo by Alex Joseph
tilt is: Isabel Crespo Pardo, voice; Kalia Vandever, trombone + voice; Carmen Quill, bass + voice.
tilt exists in the space between improvisation and song, elastic and flowing, their music emerges from a shared love of words and experimentation. This Brooklyn-based collective brings together the voices of Isabel Crespo Pardo, Kalia Vandever, and Carmen Quill. The intimacy found in the ensemble is apparent through their evolving chemistry on stage and their symbiotic improvisational approach. tilt premiered at bop dubu in Red Hook, Brooklyn in July 2022, with performances ongoing in NYC. tilt will be touring the West Coast in May 2024 to celebrate their debut album, something we once knew (Dear Life Records).
DISCOGRAPHY
Releases crediting Carmen Quill (formerly Carmen Q. Rothwell) on bass, vocals, and/or other.
Coming soon: albums by tilt, Asa Horvitz/GHOST, Keeley Boyle, Scree, Adeline Hotel
tilt - something we once knew (2024)
Alena Spanger - Fire Escape (2024)
Ictus - Ictus (2024)
O’K - Out of Coffee (2023)
Adeline Hotel - Hot Fruit (2023)
Office Culture - Big Time Things (2023)
Kitba - Kitba (2023)
Scree - Jasmine on a Night in July (2023)
Field Guides - Gingko (2022)
Ian Wayne - I Can’t Sleep (2022)
Scree - Slow Bloom (2022)
Carmen Quill (fka Carmen Q. Rothwell) - Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere (2021)
Nico Hedley - Painterly (2021)
Isaac Gillespie - All I Am To You / Rose In Bloom (2021)
Carmen Q. Rothwell - Dwellings 1 - Explainer (Lions With Wings) (2021)
Carmen Q. Rothwell - Dwellings 2 - Bed Song (Lions With Wings) (2021)
Carmen Q. Rothwell - Dwellings 3 - The Window (Lions With Wings) (2021)
Winston C.W. - Good Guess (2020)
Katie Vogel - Make Space (2020)
Dave Douglas - Dizzy Atmosphere (2020)
Allegra Levy - Lose My Number (2020)
Scree - Live at The Owl (2019)
The Sky is a Suitcase - Rain Rhythm (2018)
Tyrant Lizard - Story Time (2018)
The Sky is a Suitcase - The Sky is a Suitcase (2016)
People People - People People (2016)
Tyrant Lizard - Tyrant Lizard (2016)
Gregg Belisle-Chi - I sang to you and the moon (2016)
Ings - Afterthought EP (2016)
Alex Pinto - Parkside (2016)
Wally Shoup Sax Trio +1 - Copaesthetics (2015)