Join Rare Earth on Thursday, September 10th at 2:30pm when he speaks with Australian composer and multi-instrumentalist, Carla dal Forno, ahead of her show at The Chapel in SF on Sunday, September 13th.
Carla dal Forno makes music at the threshold of things — the point where friendship becomes something else, where quiet becomes charged, where ordinary life accumulates into something that needs to be said out loud. Dal Forno has spent a decade building a body of work defined by restraint and precision, rooted in the spare traditions of post-punk, dream-pop, and home recording.
Confession, her fourth album on her own Kallista Records, is her most fully realised yet. Written over several years as an intensely private project, it traces what dal Forno describes as “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way” — the particular upheaval of closeness that arrives unexpectedly, of longing and jealousy rubbing up against stability, of the ordinary tilting into something that can no longer be ignored. Where earlier work leaned toward abstraction, Confession moves into emotional directness. “I couldn’t hide behind abstraction,” she has said. “The songs only worked when I leaned into emotional truth.”
Dal Forno releases all her work through Kallista Records, the label she founded in 2019, maintaining full creative control over what she makes and when it reaches the world. It is an approach consistent with a sensibility that has always trusted its own pace — and known, when the time comes, exactly what it needs to say.
