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.
The following shows are mostly improvised/sound/noise/song shows duo with Francesco Guerri. The project has tentatively been called Bloody Claws which is my new solo name of sorts (more info later) but I think most promoters are calling it by our names right now.
may 31 – London at The Old Blue Last
june 2 – I’d like to have/ play at a party in London……..
june 3 – Brussels at Botanique with Marissa Nadler
june 4 – Cologne at Kulturbunker
june 5 – Krefeld, Germany
june 6 – Vienna, Arena
june 7 – Graz, Austria Absolutely Free Project
june 9 – Berlin, The West Germany Club
june 11 -- Genova, Italy venue TBA
june 12 -- Rome as guest of “EL” Electric Leak--a group including
Christian Ferlaino, Alberto Fiori, Francesco Guerri, Giovanni Falvo
@ Teatro Ruskaja dell'Accademia Nazionale di danza
June 14 -- Soliera (near Modena, 70km north of Bologna) at Arti Vive Festival This is a FANCY event!
TBA dates at this time
June 21 -- Napoli the TORO FARNESE in the National Archeological Museum FANCY!
More TBA dates at this time
June 26 – Paris, Instants Chavires
Bozulich's first record for Constellation, issued in 2006, was released under her own name, and bore the album title Evangelista. That album title has now migrated to become the band name. So...this is the new album, titled Hello, Voyager, by the newly named band Evangelista, featuring Carla Bozulich. You follow? No worries, there will not be a quiz.
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Carla's 2006 Constellation release was widely celebrated as her strongest, most fearless and compelling record in years, and ended up on many year end lists, including The Wire (UK), Blow Up (Italy) and WMFU (Brian Turner's blog) to name a few. Carla toured Evangelista all over Europe and North America, with core bandmate Tara Barnes at her side, and a rotating cast of other musicians, including Shahzad Ismaily and members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (all of whom contributed to the original recording as well).
The Evangelista band continues to comprise Carla and Tara as its nucleus, and continues to build on its relationship with Montreal (where the last album was also made). Hello, Voyager was recorded in Montreal at the Hotel2Tango by Efrim Menuck in late summer 2007, with an even larger cast of Montreal musicians joining Carla, Tara and Shahzad this time around, to work up a more stylistically diverse batch of songs. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes still underpin Carla's incantatory sung and spoken lyrics on the album's opening and closing tracks, but much of the rest of the record is more overtly composed. Blistering nuggets like the snarling "Smooth Jazz" and the desperate "Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space" are the most rocking tunes Carla has put to tape since the demise of The Geraldine Fibbers, while "The Blue Room" (one of Carla's finest songs, and one she has been carrying around for many years) is finally captured in a stunning studio arrangement that includes organ, violin, cello and contrebasse. "Lucky Lucky Luck" is a playful, sassy, fractured take on the misfit narrative and "Paper Kitten Claw" is its methodical, reflective, poetic foil. Carla's voice perfectly sets and channels the prevailing mood on each song, and is strong as ever.
The new album includes contributions from over a dozen Montreal players, including most of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (chiefly on string arrangements), as well as Nadia Moss (organ) and a corps of local drummers who bang out the thunderous rhythm track on "Smooth Jazz" and drive the epic sprawl of the album's closing title track.
Constellation is thrilled to be releasing Carla's second album for the label on CD and 180gLP. Both formats come in our custom cardstock packaging, with artwork featuring paintings by Montreal artist (and Evangelista player) Nadia Moss, and include a fold-out lyric sheet insert.
Thanks for the add! I found a copy of the Meatplow album on CD a couple days ago...an old favorite that I only had on cassette...and wondered "what ever happened to that brilliant singer". A lot, it would seem. This new material of yours is excellent...I'll have to delve into it more as it really sounds like you're taking full advantage of your considerable musical gifts.
I found Hello, voyager in the public library here in Trondheim the other day. I like it. It's a good library. And the album is amazing! It was like hearing the collection of time and images. A whole. Also called life. The rest of the world can just do their best to stop me from loving. I'll spill my heart and keep my drink. Have a nice life!
Thanks for the friendship Love is light, it makes you see things
Nor Mozart, Charlie Parker or Jimmy Hendrix had such an instrument at their disposition! All music we know is made on instruments we know. New weapons generate killings, new musical instruments generate.... Can’t wait for people like you to start exploring the Kelstone. Jan Van Kelst
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