Career
Carmen has released four albums to date (2011), most recently It Walks Like Love (Inertia) on 5 December 2009, hailed as "...a truly outstanding record and, with it, Loene Carmen has not only created her finest piece of work to date, but also one of the albums of the year."
The album was produced by Burke Reid and with guitarist Brock Fitzgerald and drummer Samuel Pearton from The Scare and Sam Worrad from The Holy Soul on bass. Special guests include Jed Kurzel (Mess Hall) on duet "Oh Apollo!", Peter Head on piano with Tex Perkins and Holiday Sidewinder also making an appearance on backing vocals. Her third album Rock'n'Roll Tears, co written and recorded with Jed Kurzel and Sam Worrad, attracted standout reviews. In 2004, Slight Delay was released to minor critical acclaim on Reverberation.
Tracks, Nashville High and Rock n Roll Tears were featured tracks on the Australian series Love My Way. "Born Funky Born Free" was featured in the film Fat Pizza.
In March 2010 Carmen released mini-album Leave It at the Door, a home recorded collaboration with "the mysterious Krystina" under the moniker "T: Lo" in 2003.
In December 2011 she released limited edition mini album Hard Candy Christmas under the name Sweet Carmo—featuring solo cover versions of country classics by artists such as Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.
January 2012 saw the launch of "Loene Carmen's Parallel Universe", a lounge room variety show filmed for the internet.
Carmen performs with a rotating line-up of musicians that has included Mess Hall, The Holy Soul, Warren Ellis and Jim White (Dirty Three) and "X"'s Cathy Green. She has also toured solo, opening for Gareth Liddiard (The Drones) and Renee Geyer in Australia as well as Mick Harvey in Europe. She showcased solo at SxSW in 2009.
She has contributed music writing to anthologies Meanjin on Rock 'n' Roll: All Yesterday's Parties and Your Mother Would be Proud: True Tales of Mayhem and Misadventure (edited by Jenny Valentish & Tamara Sheward) and is published in the 2011 "Women of Letters" collection (curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire).
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