CARLA BOZULICH WITH MASSIMO PUPILLO

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"To my ears, Carla Bozulich is one of the most recognizable female vocalists of the past twenty years or so." - allmostcool.org

"Its diversity, boldness and overall quality has compelled me to delve into Bozulich's past work with fresh, enthusiastic ears." - popmatters.com

"Rife with suspense, drama, and a grisly cast of characters, Voyager's probably more likely to ignite your inner playwright than get your foot tapping, but it's still a cathartic rush all the same." - Pitchfork

"This is a fascinating record that enjoys toying with musical boundaries ..." - Drowned in Sound

Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band Gerladine 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 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 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-conpirators Tara Barnes and Shahzad Ismaily, and contributions from a large cast of Montreal-based musicians. The last record, entitled Hello, Voyager, has been released in March 2008. Price of Truth was released from the constellation label in 2009.




Massimo Pupillo is a bass player, improviser and composer, born in Rome, Italy .

Since 1991 he’s an active engine of the italian experimental- avant–free music scene.
He s been a member of the well- known experimental collective Gronge untill ‘97 and then with two members of that band started the trio ZU, gaining status of cult band worldwide.
With ZU he released 11 albums ( and lots of singles and compilations) on labels like Chicago’s Atavistic , Holland’s Red Note, french Amanita, San Francisco Frenetic, etc…
The album 'Igneo' (2002) was recorded and produced at Chicago’s Electrical Audio by Steve Albini, (producer – engineer for Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Page & Plant, etc... )

He played more than 900 concerts in Europe, East block, Russia, USA, Canada, Asia , Africa, in different contexts like rock, jazz, and contemporary music festivals.
With Zu he's been on tour sharing the stage with such bands as The Melvins, Fantomas, The Ex, Lightning Bolt, Ruins, Dalek, Nomeansno, Vandermark 5, The Thing, etc...
Zu have been in the jazz polls of USA radios as reported by the magazine Jazziz , and in the jazz top 10 of Village Voice (NY) and Musica Jazz (Italy)
Zu collaborates live and in studio with the best musicians of the avantgarde scene, regardless of rock or jazz definitions: Mike Patton, Nobukazu Takemura, Damo Suzuki, Dalek , The Melvins, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brotzmann, Ken Vandermark, etc