plus various-memberz extraordinaire and there are and will be various other incantations eruptured at various times past and present. Rip it.
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Voyagers!!! Set down upon the earth. Open your cramped legs locked in that flying suit of lights. Open your eyes, adjust your eyes to the dark. You are with us now. We are all the same. A small group of lucky aces bound together in black air burning out our hopeful eyes. Dust and wind bleed out the skies. All the lights are dark. Buildings lay broken. Victorious structure shooting up pie in the sky--Rubble and blood, rubble and blood. Still I stand before you, dear stranger and I say: Yes! we can climb out from the tangled metal and cement. And yes, we can look upon the dark sky of day and say: I never was who I seemed to be.
On 07 of November we will be in Brussels makin noise with Lyenn with cousin Ches and cousin Shahzad at Les Ateliers Claus. Also playing on this most auspicious of nights, the eminent orchestre tout puissant marcel duchamp.
Beginning with her first Constellation release in 2006, Carla Bozulich's Evangelista project has steadily been gaining recognition as a unique, uncompromising and highly compelling confessional/cathartic sonic voyage, featuring some of the strongest, most challenging work Bozulich has produced in a fascinating and fearless musical career that spans two decades (Ethyl Meatplow, The Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella). Evangelista landed on the cover of UK music magazine The Wire in June 2008, following the release of the group's second album, Hello Voyager (which also made The Wire and several other mags' year end lists). Bozulich/Evangelista has also recently appeared at numerous prestigious music festivals, including FIMAV (Musique Actuelle) in Canada, Le Weekend in Scotland and the Ruhrtriennale in Germany.
With Prince Of Truth, Bozulich has shaped her Evangelista group into something more intense, more committed, more complex and more sonically and compositionally adventurous than ever.
Having toured extensively throughout North America and Europe during the year-and-a-half following the release of Hello Voyager, Evangelista has coalesced around a core trio, with Bozulich and bassist Tara Barnes joined by keyboardist/sound artist Dominic Cramp, while sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Lisa Gamble also played a significant role through this period, helping to write several tunes and occasionally joining the band on tour.
Conventional song structure is mostly absent from Prince Of Truth; the pieces are built from an extremely diverse set of sound sources, taking shape through layers of accumulation and juxtaposition, foreground and background, sudden shifts, suspensions and dissolutions – with Carla's commanding voice and brilliant lyrics providing the through-line.
Bozulich and her Evangelista group have forged a powerful, chilling, challenging and articulate new work, with Carla at the helm but certainly not alone. Her assembled crew has mounted a most elaborate rigging, unfurled a panoply of strangely-patterned sails, and charted some bold new territory indeed.
Prince Of Truth is also a sort of Pro Tools fantasia wrought from purgatory, not only figuratively and stylistically, but quite literally as well. Initial tracking was scheduled at the Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal, with regular Evangelista collaborators Shahzad Ismaily, Lisa Gamble, Thierry Amar, Nadia Moss and Ches Smith all in attendance. On day two of the sessions, a nasty throat infection Carla had been fighting on a preceding tour evolved into full-blown pneumonia, confining her to bed for the ensuing week. The band went on to track the song foundations, along with a pile of extras, outtakes and overdubs, and Bozulich returned to her Los Angeles home with these stacks of tracks digitized from the analog master tapes. Over the next two months, Carla, Tara and Dominic would de- and re-construct these sessions, with Carla adding vocals and rallying additional contributions from Jessica Catron, Ezra Buchla, and Nels Cline. The result is an album of searing and beguiling depth, occupying an entirely original zone at the intersection of improv, noise, post-industrial and post-punk music and the incantatory/seductive/soul persona of the chanteuse.
Prince Of Truth by Evangelista is available in custom CD and LP packaging using 100% recycled paperboard and featuring reproductions of two stunning paintings by Jesse McCloskey. The album is also available digitally.
“S’étant chaussée, [...]“, Maquillage & Crustacés et Kaugumi Présentent :
CARLA BOZULICH/EVANGELISTA (Radiant Darkness Distorted Avant-Rock, ex-Geraldine Fibbers, Ethyl Meatplow, sur Constellation Records ; Los Angeles, USA) + ACTION BEAT (Noise No Wave, gang de babouins sauvages ; GB) + ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP (Transe Urbaine, The Ex meets Africa, avec un ex-Dog Faced Hermans et un ex-Headache ; Genève, Suisse)
20 Heures 7 Euros
GRRRND ZERO GERLAND 40, Rue Pré Gaudry 69007 Lyon - Métro : Arrêt Jean Jaurès
Thank you for being amazing. I've been hooked to your beautifully brutal guitar/voice since i first heard it on the All Over Me soundtrack when i was a wee lad. This new, (at least, new to me) band/project of yours and Tara's has reminded me how important performing, writing, and listening to music is. I've been worrying about all the wrong things. Thank you for re-igniting my spark, and battling my demons for me, you awesome, invincible, nuns of the apocalypse.
One-sided 12" EP. High Castle is your older brother's favorite band, assuming he grew up on a steady diet of '90s underground rock. They produce a viscous byproduct of the jams you grew up on dragged through a record collection's worth of sludge and muck. Once you decide to bring it, that's kinda the only way to go. The "You're on Your Own Way" EP is the debut record for the trio of Erin Allen (Child Pornography, Work), Shaggy Denton (Hips, Saboteurs), and Wilson Drozdowski (Duchesses, Woman's Worth), a culmination of songs road tested on summer 2008 US tour and written post-New Year's hallucinations. Songs about garbage strikes, astral projection, lonely security guards, hedonism, dropping out, meditation, injustice, misplaced hearts...and more. In a short life span the band has played shows with such highlights of the American/Candian underground as Abe Vigoda, Shearing Pinx, Strip Mall Seizures, and USAISAMONSTER if that gives you an idea of their neighborhood. Seven short bursts of salvation, pressing of 500, mastered by Weasel Walter. Two color silkscreened covers by Paul Morgan (Club Sandwich, Business Lady). "I feel like I'm back in ear-bleeding country with the trio's Unwound-ishly, damaged style of noisy rock, nursing an insatiable appetite for more tinfoil-scorched guitar scuzz, blown-out low end, and full-tilt drum thwackage. As each song unloads, three howling voices punctuate the maelstrom...Whatever avenue this threesome decides to explore in the future — be it noisesome or poppy — I know I'll be all ears." - Chris Sabbath, SF Bay Guardian
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