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    CST061   180gLP • CD • DL

    Release date: 05 October 2009

    Duration: 44:00

     

    Prince Of Truth stays true to Evangelista’s uncompromising and compelling combination of delicate coaxing love and wicked cathartic awakening sonic voyage. Evangelista has coalesced around a core trio, with Carla Bozulich and bassist Tara Barnes now joined by keyboardist/sound artist Dominic Cramp. Returning to Montreal and the Hotel2Tango studio where the previous two Evangelista records were made, the new album was co-written by the above trio along with several members of their extended Montreal family.

    With Prince Of Truth, Bozulich has shaped her Evangelista group into something more intense, more committed, more complex and more sonically and compositionally obsessive than ever. Conventional song structure is mostly absent – 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 – and Carla’s commanding voice and brilliant lyrics.

    Sprung from the obsessions of Bozulich’s instinctual, maniacally detail-oriented mind and channeled through the incantatory/seductive/soul persona of the classic chanteuse, Carla and her Evangelista band have made an album of searing and beguiling depth, the spoils of a phenomenal group of musicians occupying an entirely original zone at the intersection of improv, noise, post-industrial and musique concrete, forging an experimental gothic soul music for our impossible times.  


    PACKAGING NOTES

    LP is pressed on 180g audiophile vinyl and comes in a thick printed jacket with lyrics sheet and download code.

    CD comes in a custom paperboard mini-gatefold jacket with a printed CD dust sleeve and lyrics insert. 

    CREDITS

    Carla Bozulich: Vocals, guitar, autoharp, chimes, electronics, bass, drums
    Dominic Cramp: Keyboards, noises, bass, accordion
    Tara Barnes: bass, vocals, percussion, music box

    WITH
    Nels Cline: guitar
    Lisa Gamble: bike wheel, saw, thumb piano
    Shahzad Ismaily: drums, guitar
    Ches Smith: drums, percussion


    FEATURED GUESTS
    Thierry Amar: contrabass
    Bobb Bruno: drums
    Ezra Buchla: viola
    Jessica Catron: cell, vocals
    Disco and Velvet Smoove: backing woos
    Jonah Fortune: contrabass
    Devin Hoff: contrabass
    M.D.s: backing woos
    Nadia Moss: keyboards
    Luis Naranjo: backing woos
    Stefan Nelson: gong
    Andrea Serrapiglio: cello
    Shannon Zombelle: backing woos

    Recorded by Efrim Menuck at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, Canada and Carla Bozulich at Runaway’s House, Los Angeles, USA.
    Mixed and produced by Carla Bozulich.
    Additional tracking by Mark Wheaton at Catasonic, Tara and Dominic up in Oakland Town, and Shahzad Ismaily at home.
    Mastered at Grey Market in Montreal by Harris Newman.