Evangelista / Carla Bozulich
Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band Geraldine Fibbers and as the woman who re-made Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger — with Willie Nelson as a special guest. Carla has one of the most unique voices in any genre. Her work is brutally raw and weirdly visionary.
FULL BIO...
Born in New York City, she grew up a tomboy and girl protector in San Pedro, California. Carla’s first appearance on record is Gary Kail’s album from 1982 called Zurich 1916, on which she does dada-inspired worldplay, “you know, telephone and vacuum cleaner stuff”. She sang in a couple of groups – the Neon Veins and Invisible Chains, the latter of which recorded an album for The Minutemen’s New Alliance label when Carla was 18 years old.
Carla disappeared from daylight for a few years, re-emerged, and was soon causing traffic jams as the gamine howler in the confrontational sex/sound assault outfit Ethyl Meatplow. In 1993, before Ethyl’s last gasp, Carla founded The Geraldine Fibbers, going on to record and tour incessantly with that band until 1998. Scarnella followed, a duo formed with Nels Cline, and a decidedly uncommercial, open, experimental project.
In 2001 she scored a Los Angeles production of Jean Genet’s The Maids and the award-winning feature film By Hook Or By Crook, which she also scored and for which she compiled the soundtrack, went to Sundance in 2003. That same year saw the release of Carla’s new rendition of Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger. She has also explored mixed media and performance art, including a commission for The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
In 2005 Carla rekindled a decade-old connection with Montreal-based musicians affiliated with the Constellation label, leading to a recording at that city’s legendary Hotel2Tango studio, and the release of her Evangelista album on Constellation. Received with high critical praise, the record would find its way onto many year-end best lists, and lead to extensive touring around Europe and North America, including performances at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Canada) and Bad Bonn Kilbi (Switzerland) among others.
In 2007, Evangelista became the official band name of Carla’s project, and her follow-up record for Constellation was once again recorded at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal, with core co-conspirators Tara Barnes and Shahzad Ismaily, and contributions from a large cast of Montreal-based musicians. The first record bearing Evangelista as a band name was called Hello, Voyager and came out in February 2008.
Subsequently, Evangelista landed on the cover of UK music magazine The Wire in June 2008, and Hello Voyager also made that and several other mags’ year-end lists. Bozulich/Evangelista continued to tour tirelessly in Europe and North America after the Hello Voyager release, including appearances at Le Weekend in Scotland and the Ruhrtriennale in Germany (with Carla in collaborative performance with Marianne Faithful and Marc Ribot).
Since 2008, Evangelista has coalesced around a core trio, with Bozulich and bassist Tara Barnes now joined by keyboardist/sound artist Dominic Cramp. Montreal sound-artist Lisa Gamble is also a regular contributor to Evangelista’s writing and recording, and has occasionally joined the band on the road.
The spring of 2009 found Carla, Tara and Dominic in Montreal, once again recording at the Hotel2Tango studio where the previous two albums were made. Prince Of Truth was released in October 2009 and includes a wide cast of friends and guests, including Shahzad Ismaily, Ches Smith, Jessica Catron, Nels Cline, Devin Hoff and Montrealers Thierry Amar (Silver Mt. Zion) and Nadia Moss and Jonah Fortune (Witchies).
Evangelista's latest album, In Animal Tongue, will be released 20 September 2011.

ESMERINE
Dalmak
CST096 180gLP/ CD / DL
Out 3 September 2013
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW.
And here's the next of our new releases for Summer-Fall 2013: Dalmak, the fourth full-length LP from Esmerine. The album is out September 3, and it features a quartet of Turkish musicians with whom the group collaborated during a pair of visits to Istanbul over the past couple of years, as well as appearances from Sarah Neufeld and Aaron Lumley. See below for info, including an MP3 of album track "Translator's Clos Part II" (premiered this morning by Decoder Magazine), or click here for the full run-down.
Esmerine will play a handful of live dates in Ontario, Quebec and New York to celebrate the release in early September. For a number of these shows the band will be joined by the group of musicians who appear on the album; needless to say these promise to be truly breathtaking. See below for dates (more to come in the next few weeks).
When Esmerine surfaced with La Lechuza in 2011, the album signaled many things: the band's first new recordings in six years, an expanded line-up, and a song cycle inspired by and dedicated to the life and untimely death of a dear friend and fellow musician. What wasn't immediately clear was whether this acclaimed record would mark the opening of a new chapter for the band, or stand alone as a singular work of eulogy and homage driven by emotion and circumstance.
Esmerine's new album Dalmak emphatically confirms that the group has indeed continued writing, exploring and collaborating - definitively extending its horizons in this new iteration of the band's trajectory. Bruce Cawdron (marimba) resigned from his seat as drummer for Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2012, allowing him to focus more fully on Esmerine alongside co-founder and cellist Rebecca Foon (Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire To Flames); the two principals also recruited percussionist Jamie Thompson (Unicorns, Islands) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson as full-time members to solidify the group as a writing and performing quartet.
European tours in 2011-2012 brought Esmerine to Istanbul, where the group's enthusiastic reception led to an invitation for an artist residency in the city. Dalmak is the fruit of that visit: the majority of the album was recorded in Istanbul, where the band's four Canadian musicians were joined by an equal number of Turkish guest players: Hakan Vreskala, Baran Aşık, Ali Kazim Akdağ, James Hakan Dedeoğlu on various instruments.
Dalmak is a Turkish verb with many connotations: to contemplate, to be absorbed in, to dive into, to bathe in, to rush into, to plummet. As a title for Esmerine's new album, "dalmak" refers in a literal sense to immersion in the culture and music of Istanbul but also appropriately evokes the range of music that emerged from this immersion: a collection of songs that shift between meditative pulsing and enveloping restraint to headlong flights into rhythm and groove. With Dalmak, Esmerine presents some of its most richly minimal and intimate music alongside what is surely its most explosive, energized and ornate. The album is a tour-de-force of cross-cultural music-making, emotive but unsentimental, deeply textured and detailed but never precious, superbly guided throughout by a balance of DIY rock, new folk and modern classical/contemporary sensibilities.
With initial recording by Barkin Engin and Metin Bozkurt in Istanbul, Esmerine laid down the live bed tracks for the up-tempo rhythmic songs at the album's core: "Lost River Blues", "Barn Board Fire" and "Translator's Clos". Marimba, cello, drums, tenor banjo, bass and trumpet are joined by bendir, darbuka, erbane, meh, barama, saz and electric guitar from the local players for these centerpiece tracks, where extended melodic themes are passed around and woven through staccato grooves and polyrhythmic vamps in deeply satisfying fashion. The sessions continued back in Montréal at Breakglass Studio, where Cawdron and Foon tracked the more studied cello and marimba songs "Learning To Crawl" and "White Pine", and where the album's gorgeously saturated warmth, depth and pulsing grit was achieved courtesy of Breakglass head engineer Jace Lasek (Wolf Parade, The Besnard Lakes, Suuns) and Ian Ilavsky, who mixed the album alongside Beckie and Bruce.
Click here for more info, and thanks for listening.
| DD/MM/YY | PLACE | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| 03.09.13 | Ottawa, ON | First Baptist Church |
| 04.09.13 | Montreal, QC | La Sala Rossa |
| 05.09.13 | Toronto, ON | The Great Hall |
| 10.09.13 | New York, NY | Littlefield |
Constellation celebrates its 15th Anniversary with a series of five mini-festivals in Europe this November: the locations are Bern, Paris, Munich, Vienna and Leipzig, in partnership with some of our favourite venues and partners that have supported the label and its artists over the years,
Go here for an at-a-glance round-up of the line-ups, locations and ticket links.
Read here for a longer post about the events.
See below for a rendering of the commemorative screenprinted poster that will be available at the events (being printed by the Dis-patch Collective from Belgrade, Serbia – whose Constellation artwork exhibit will also be on display in Bern and Vienna) and a little video clip we produced for the celebrations.

The Paris 15th Anniversary CST shows are now sold out.
Information about all CST 15th events can be found HERE.
Nous invitons nos camarades français à prendre note des autres concerts en France en novembre, ainsi que de nos événements à Berne et à Bruxelles...
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While we realise it's a bit of an extra journey for the good people of France, we remind everyone that about 50 passes still remain for the CST fest in Bern, Switzerland.
CST Heartland Festival passes for Bern are available here.
The Bern event is a Constellation takeover of the Heartland Festival and represents an expanded 4-day affair, with a CST art exhibit curated by Dis-patch Collective (Belgrade) and performances by several artists who cannot make the Paris weekend: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Colin Stetson, Hrsta, Nick Kuepfer and Khora.
Details for each night of the Bern event (and single night tickets) can be found HERE.
If you are looking for information about Bern accommodations, we encourage you to contact Dachstock@Reitschule HERE.
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We would also like to note the following Constellation-related concert dates happening in France and Belgium as the label celebrates throughout November with many artists on tour:
DO MAKE SAY THINK
16.11.12 Metz FR Musiques Volantes Festival TIX
SANDRO PERRI + ERIC CHENAUX
15.11.12 Nantes FR Stakhanov
16.11.12 Limoges FR Centre Culturel John Lennon
THEE SILVER MT ZION + MATANA ROBERTS
19.11.12 Tourcoing FR Le Grand Mix TIX
20.11.12 Strassbourg FR La Laterie TIX
COLIN STETSON
14.11.12 Brussels BE Ancienne Belgique VZW TIX
20.11.12 Poitiers FR Confort Moderne TIX
21.11.12 Rennes FR UBU1 TIX
22.11.12 Nantes FR Pôle Etudiant
23.11.12 Gent BE Theaterzaal Vooruit TIX
24.11.12 Rouen FR Le 106 TIX
25.11.12 Tourcoing FR L'Hospice d'Havré - Maison Folie de Tourcoing TIX
DO MAKE SAY THINK + SANDRO PERRI + ERIC CHENAUX
CONSTELLATION LABEL NIGHT @ AUTUMN FALLS FESTIVAL
26.11.12 Brussels BE Atelier 210 TIX


BERN • PARIS • MUNICH • VIENNA • LEIPZIG
As previously announced, this November we're staging some mini-festival events in France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany to celebrate our 15th year as a record label. These have come together really nicely, more artists have been added in recent weeks, and a whole new city (Munich) as well!
Check this page for confirmed lineups and ticket links, and keep reading below for further details and testimonials.
We truly feel the present is a great moment to take stock of what we've done over the past decade and a half. Bands with whom we have some of our longest-standing relationships continue to make music among the most vital and inspiring to grace our ears, while in the past few years we've begun new relationships with artists producing equally jaw-dropping work, whose vision and integrity remind us why we started doing this in the first place.
We've felt an outpouring of warm support from our many friends and allies in Europe and around the world in organizing these events, while back home we've had the privilege of participating in the inspiring and unprecedented (in Canada) popular movement protesting tuition increases and the fraud of neo-liberal "austerity" economics that took over the streets of Montreal this spring. These days we truly feel more connected than ever to the local and global communities we consider ourselves part of, accountable to, and inspired by.
We're deeply grateful to everyone who's found occasional or sustained meaning and common cause with Constellation thus far, and genuinely look forward to spending time and celebrating with everyone that can make it out to these events in Europe.
And it goes without saying, we are utterly humbled and honoured by the support we've received from all of our presenting partners in these five European cities, most of whom we've had a long-standing relationship with in various respects. We set out to collaborate with the people who historically have meant a lot to us and our artists, and could not have hoped for more. Thanks from the bottom of our hearts.
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While the mighty Siskiyou has sadly had to pull out of any further appearances this year (read a message from the band here), our European mini-fest anniversary shows continue to be anchored by Do Make Say Think and Silver Mt Zion, along with Sandro Perri (backed by a full band), Eric Chenaux, Elfin Saddle and Hangedup. These six artists will be present at all four of our previously announced events in Bern, Paris, Vienna and Leipzig.
We have also now confirmed the participation of Carla Bozulich and Matana Roberts at all four of these events as well - whether as part of the "main stage" line-ups or in interesting site-specific or off-site performances. We're still ironing out a few of those ideas and logistics, but rest assured no performances will be running concurrently.
Additionally, we'll have Hrsta at most engagements, and have managed to yank Colin Stetson out of his crisscrossing solo tour schedule to appear on the final night of the Bern fest.
The Bern weekend will be truly epic, with a minimum of eleven CST bands appearing over four days, and the Dis-patch Art Collective from Belgrade, Serbia installing their wonderful exhibit "Ce côté en haut: The Fragile World of Constellation" - an exhaustive retrospective of the label's album and poster artwork. Looks like there will also be a label-related photo exhibit in Bern, as well as a couple of day shows, art talks and other off-site things going on too.
Also: Munich! The excellent Feierwerk venue in Munich has come on board to host two nights featuring 3-band bills each evening, with DMST, Perri and Chenaux playing on Nov 19 and SMZ, Hrsta and Matana Roberts playing on Nov 21.
Again, click HERE for a re-cap of the main stage line-ups in each city along with ticket links, and/or watch the video clip at the end of this post for a listing of those main stage line-ups at each event.
Other cool things we can tell you about:
It's already pretty darn exciting that Do Make Say Think will be performing their classic album Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead in its entirety for their live set, but our presenting partner the Viennale will additionally be programming a series of experimental films to be projected during the band's set in Vienna. Since the Viennale is one of Europe's most respected and iconoclastic film festivals, this is sure to be a very special visual accompaniment to a very special musical performance.
Mike Moya was a founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor back in the early 1990s but pulled back from the band by the end of that decade to concentrate on Montreal-based projects as well as his excellent psych-folk group Hrsta throughout the 2000s. Moya then re-joined GY!BE when the group came off hiatus in 2010 and has been back in the third guitar chair with them ever since. Hrsta will perform at all the CST European events except Paris, and will be joined by new Godspeed drummer Tim Herzog, GY!BE/SMZ violinist Sophie Trudeau and Musique Fragile artist Nick Kuepfer for these sets.
Carla Bozulich will be premiering new material in a non-Evangelista guise; admittedly the distinction between these two identities has always been somewhat fluid, but we are super excited about the new music Carla has been working on and this will be a first opportunity to hear some of this stuff live.
Jerusalem In My Heart will perform in Leipzig. Date and location specifics have yet to be finally determined, but rest assured this will be very special and very cool. JIMH is the mutli-media project founded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, a musician and sound engineer who is a close collaborator of Constellation on many fronts. He has engineered and/or mixed numerous albums in the CST catalogue, has made films and videos for several CST artists, has performed as part of Land Of Kush, and will be helping to stage-manage the Europe events. JIMH now includes experimental filmmaker Malena Szlam, who will join Radwan for the performance in Leipzig, involving multiple 16mm film projections and his totally unique and intense blend of synthetic and organic Arabic-influenced sound.
The Dis-patch album art exhibit will transition from Bern to Vienna and be installed in an anteroom of the Porgy & Bess venue in Vienna from opening night of the first CST show on Nov 21 through to the end of the 4-day Blue Bird festival on Nov 24.
Dis-patch will also be bringing limited edition screenprinted posters and hand-stitched cotton LP bags which are going to be quite lovely. We'll have 100 posters (4-colour on archival A2 size paper) and 50 bags available at each event in Bern, Paris, Vienna and Leipzig (apologies, but these will not be available in Munich). We promise these are going to be really nice items, reasonably priced and, y'know, all commemorative and stuff.
Anyway, we think these are going to be good times for all.
Now watch a video:

Evangelista head out for another string of European dates, taking in a swath of the continent over the last two weeks of September. Check dates below to catch the awesome, unsettling thing that is their live show.
Last year the band released In Animal Tongue, their fourth LP of harrowing, transcendent experimentalism, which, according to Tiny Mix Tapes, "ranks among the most provocative work [Carla Bozulich] has done in recent years..." You can listen to the whole thing here, and watch the video for opener "Artifical Lamb" below.
| DD/MM/YY | PLACE | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| 12.09.12 | Berlin, DE | Berghain Kantine |
| 13.09.12 | Leipzig, DE | UT Connewitz |
| 14.09.12 | Brussels, BE | Les Ateliers Claus |
| 15.09.12 | Bonn, DE | Kult 41 |
| 16.09.12 | Tilburg, NL | Incubate Festival |
| 18.09.12 | Delemont, CH | SAS |
| 19.09.12 | Torino, IT | Blah Blah |
| 22.09.12 | Schio, IT | CSC |
| 25.09.12 | Vienna, AT | Chelsea |
| 26.09.12 | Budapest, HU | A38 |
| 28.09.12 | Dornbirn, AT | Spielboden |
| 29.09.12 | Ebensee, AT | Kino |

Our good friends at Tiny Mix Tapes have just launched a wonderfully unsettling video for "Artificial Lamb", the first track from Evangelista's In Animal Tongue (released last September). They write, "The video matches the song’s thrust, where the fluidity of living meets mechanical reality, and the movement of life comes with planetary implications..." We'd recommend you head over and check it out:
WATCH VIDEO HERE.
More info on In Animal Tongue, including a stream of the entire album, is here.

With In Animal Tongue now available in stores and online (here, for example), and a month of live dates in the United States and Canada behind them, Evangelista now head across the ocean for another month of shows in Europe, beginning November 11 in Brussels.
Grab an MP3 from the album and see dates below. In Animal Tongue is streaming in its entirety on our release page.
MP3: "Artificial Lamb"
| DD/MM/YY | PLACE | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| 12.11.11 | Brussels, BE | VK * |
| 13.11.11 | London, UK | Cafe Oto |
| 15.11.11 | Lyon, FR | Sonic |
| 16.11.11 | Saarbruecken, DE | Sparte 4 |
| 17.11.11 | Paris, FR | Cafe de la Danse ^ |
| 18.11.11 | Bern, CH | St. Ghetto Festival # |
| 22.11.11 | Rome, IT | Init |
| 23.11.11 | Pisa, IT | Caracol |
| 24.11.11 | Graz, AT | Postgarage |
| 25.11.11 | Vienna, AT | Blue Bird Festival |
| 26.11.11 | Zagreb, HR | SC Teatar & TD |
| 27.11.11 | Linz, AT | StopSpot Festival ` |
| 29.11.11 | Krakow, PL | Klub Re |
| 30.11.11 | Warsaw, PL | Powi´kszenie |
* w/ Lydia Lunch
^ w/ Barn Owl
# w/ Esben & the Witch
` w/ Colin Stetson

In Animal Tongue, the new LP from Evangelista, is now available in stores and for order online. Check out the feature page we put together for the release here, or go straight to the order page in our web shop.
The entire album is now streaming on our website. Check that out below.
In Animal Tongue - EVANGELISTA by Constellation Records

As we prepare to unleash In Animal Tongue, the new LP from Evangelista, Carla Bozulich will head out onto the road for several weeks of shows accompanied by John Eichenseer, including two Canadian dates in Toronto and Montreal.
Grab an MP3 from the album below, and check out dates on our tours page.
MP3: "Artificial Lamb"
| DD/MM/YY | PLACE | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| 08.09.11 | San Diego, USA* | The Tin Can |
| 09.09.11 | Phoenix, USA* | Trunk Space |
| 10.09.11 | Tucson, USA* | Solar Culture |
| 11.09.11 | Santa Fe, USA* | Red Cell |
| 12.09.11 | Albuquerque, USA* | Low Spirits |
| 14.09.11 | Austin, USA* | Mohawk |
| 16.09.11 | Houston, USA* | Super Happy Funland |
| 17.09.11 | New Orleans, USA* | Mudlark Public Theater |
| 20.09.11 | Knoxville, USA* | Pilot Light |
| 21.09.11 | Washington, DC, USA* | Velvet Lounge |
| 22.09.11 | Philadelphia, USA* | Old First Reformed Church of Christ |
| 23.09.11 | New York, USA* | Bowery Electric |
| 24.09.11 | Brooklyn, USA* | Bruar Falls |
| 25.09.11 | Easthampton, USA* | Flywheel |
| 26.09.11 | Winooski, VT, USA* | Monkey Bar |
| 29.09.11 | Montreal, CAN* | Casa del Popolo |
| 30.09.11 | Toronto, CAN* | Double Double Land |
| 01.10.11 | Ypsilanti, MI, USA* | Woodruff's |
| 07.10.11 | Chicago, IL, USA* | Martyr's |
| 09.10.11 | Minneapolis, USA* | Kitty Kat Club |
| 13.10.11 | Seattle, USA* | Sunset Tavern |
| 14.10.11 | Portland, USA* | The Woods |
| 16.10.11 | San Francisco, USA^ | The Lab |
* Carla Bozulich with John Eichenseer
^ Evangelista
We're thrilled to announce our fall release schedule - magnificent new records from Siskiyou, Evangelista, Colin Stetson and Sandro Perri. All are available now for pre-order. See below for release page links and audio samples.
CST082 - EVANGELISTA, In Animal Tongue
180g LP / CD / DL • release date: 20 September 2011
MP3: "Artificial Lamb"
CST083 - SISKIYOU, Keep Away the Dead
180g LP / CD / DL • release date: 4 October 2011
MP3: "Twigs and Stones"
CST084 - COLIN STETSON, Those Who Didn't Run
10" / DL • release date: 4 October 2011
Visit release page for streaming audio sample.
CST085 - SANDRO PERRI, Impossible Spaces
180g LP / CD / DL • release date: 18 October 2011
MP3: "Love and Light"




Phew, all of this just in. Godspeed re-groups in July to play the Portishead-curated I'll Be Your Mirror ATP event in London in late-July, Evangelista curates a program and performs at Austria's Donau Festival on 07 May, and Thee Silver Mt Zion rises again for the Portishead-curated I'll Be Your Mirror in Asbury Park (New Jersey) at the beginning of autumn.

Carla Bozulich will be spending a month in Europe this fall, playing live dates primarily in a duo project with Massimo Pupillo (also known as Massimo Zu, i.e. bassist in Zu, but also extremely active in Italy's avant-garde/experimental music scene for many years). These two make a very compelling sound together, should be great shows – they'll be playing throughout October.
Carla kicks things off with John Eichenseer (aka jhno) on September 28th with a show at Rhiz in Vienna and will also fit in a Scarnella performance (her duo with Nels Cline) during her weekend at the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria in early November to close out her trip.
See the SHOWS page or Carla's ARTIST page for dates.
No shows scheduled.
ALBUM TRACKS
- Artificial Lamb
In Animal Tongue - The Slayer (Excerpt)
Prince Of Truth
MIXTAPES AND PODCASTS
In Animal Tongue reviewed at The Skinny
Interview/show preview in Knoxville Metro Pulse
Interview / show preview in Albuquerque Alibi
Interview / show preview at Phoenix New Times
Fall 2011 tour announcement at Tiny Mix Tapes
"Artificial Limb" MP3 at Tiny Mix Tapes
Live preview in LA Times Music Blog
Prince of Truth reviewed at Tiny Mix Tapes
Prince of Truth reviewed at PopMatters
Prince of Truth reviewed at Drowned in Sound
Prince of Truth reviewed at Mapsadaisical
Interview/show preview in Knoxville Metro Pulse
Interview / show preview in Albuquerque Alibi
Interview / show preview at Phoenix New Times
Fall 2011 tour announcement at Tiny Mix Tapes
"Artificial Limb" MP3 at Tiny Mix Tapes
Live preview in LA Times Music Blog
Prince of Truth reviewed at Tiny Mix Tapes
Prince of Truth reviewed at PopMatters
Prince of Truth reviewed at Drowned in Sound
Prince of Truth reviewed at Mapsadaisical






























