Evangelista
Biography
Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band The 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 at once brutally raw and weirdly visionary.
Born in New York City, she grew up a tomboy and girl protector in San Pedro, CA. Carla’s first appearance on record is Gary Kail’s album from 1982 called Zurich 1916, on which she does dada-inspired wordplay, “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; a decidedly un-commercial, open, experimental project.
In 2001 she scored a Los Angeles production of Jean Genet’s The Maids as well as the award-winning feature film By Hook Or By Crook, which she scored and for which she compiled the soundtrack, By Hook… 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 Montréal-based musicians affiliated with the Constellation label, leading to a recording at the 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 (Swizterland) 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 Montréal, with core co-conspirators Tara Barnes and Shahzad Ismaily, and contributions from a large cast of Montréal-based musicians, including members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Frankie Sparo and Hangedup.
The debut record is titled Hello, Voyager.
