Photo credit: Ada Güvenir
Something new to our ears at DeClunk HQ is this gentle, folksy track from Camille Camille. We rather love it. Look out for an album later in the year.
Camille Camille is the musical project of Belgian singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Camille Willemart.
With “In a Song”, Camille Camille transports us through a dusty landscape of intimacy and uncertainty. Her ambitious guitar picking, joined by medievalesque vocals, evokes psychedelic folk tones on a gritty percussive loop.
On the track, she elaborates “The seed for ‘In a Song’ started sprouting in the spring of 2023 as I navigated life in Amsterdam, moving between our sailboat home, subrents along the canals, and the boatyard.
I was stuck with only a guitar line for an unusually long time until I finally found melody and words that could do it justice. That was quite new for me compared to my usual creating process. Very quickly, I found myself tapping my feet on the ground in a train-like percussion every time I played the tune. That loop felt evident from the start and became an underlying blanket throughout the track.
I recorded the skeleton of the song in my temporary home in Ghent and finished it in the spring of 2025 with the help of sound engineer and buddy Michiel Renson.
The video came together organically with my life and creative partner Vincent Leroi. It was just us, a small digital camera and the dry landscapes of the Canary Islands during our meanderings with our dear floating home, Saga, last winter.
‘In a Song’ is an ode to doubt, intimacy, the longing for answers, and the beginning of a new chapter!”
DeClunk 