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| associated_acts = Evangelista, Carla Bozulich,<br />], ], Scarnella, Carla Bozulich/Ches Smith, Bloody Claws, Invisible Chains, The Night Porter, Neon Veins, Gary Kail/Zurich 1916,<br />], ], ], ], The Book of Knots, ] | associated_acts = ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
| label = ], ] | label = ], Folktale
| years_active = 1982–present | years_active = 1982–present
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'''Carla Ragin Bozulich''' (born December 24, 1965)<ref>"United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (Carla Ragin Bozulich Los Angeles, California, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.</ref> is an American ] based in ], known for her work as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of both ] (fan nicknamed "the Fibbers") and Evangelista and as a founding member of ] and Scarnella. The Geraldine Fibbers made two full-length albums for Virgin Records, as well as multiple 7" records, cassette tapes, 10" records and two live CDs just for fans. They are chronicled in the discography, below. The Fibbers also played over 747 concerts, internationally. Their first album on Virgin Records was well described as "...a Country Feedback Masterpiece" by ''Vice'' Magazine<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbggnm/the-geraldine-fibbers-debut-was-a-country-feedback-masterpiece|title=The Geraldine Fibbers’ Debut Was a Country Feedback Masterpiece|last=Shipley|first=Al|date=2017-06-01|website=Vice|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> and they became more experimental in their 5 year tenure, largely spurred on by the addition of ] to their lineup. '''Carla Ragin Bozulich''' (born December 24, 1965)<ref>"United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (Carla Ragin Bozulich Los Angeles, California, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.</ref> is an American ] based in ], known as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of ] and Evangelista as well as a founding member of ] and Scarnella. The Geraldine Fibbers recorded two albums for ]. Their first album (''Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home'') was described as "...a Country Feedback Masterpiece" by '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbggnm/the-geraldine-fibbers-debut-was-a-country-feedback-masterpiece|title=The Geraldine Fibbers' Debut Was a Country Feedback Masterpiece|last=Shipley|first=Al|date=June 1, 2017|website=]|language=en-US|access-date=July 31, 2019}}</ref>


Carla Bozulich's Evangelista project began as a self-titled barrage of 2006 terrors, noise and hope pieces. The album was under her own name and titled ''Evangelista'', which, in an interview with Tiny Mix Tapes, Bozulich promised, 'You will be cradled and near deafened by love and mercy sounds and the sound of your own pulsing blood which used to drive me crazy as a child when I would try to go to sleep...'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/carla-bozulich-evangelista|title=Music Review: Carla Bozulich - Evangelista|website=Tiny Mix Tapes|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> The album was released by ], and was that label's first release by a non-Canadian artist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/10-essential-albums-from-constellation-records-the-legendary-independent-record-label/|title=10 Essential Albums from Constellation Records, The Legendary Independent Record Label|website=Pitchfork|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> In 2007, as it became clear the concept was emerging. ] proclaimed "Carla Bozulich's Evangelista", "A vivid inner darkness which shames rock's weeping millionaires."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carla-bozulich-evangelista-kqlkpdm25mr|title=Carla Bozulich: Evangelista|last=Lee|first=Stewart|date=2006-08-06|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=2019-07-31|language=en|issn=0956-1382}}</ref> On the forthcoming albums ''Hello, Voyager (2008)'', ''Prince of Truth (2009)'' and ''In Animal Tongue'' (2011), Bozulich adopted Evangelista as a band name. Some consistent members include bassist Tara Barnes, keyboardist/sampler Dominic Cramp, guitarist ], violinist ], organist Nadia Moss, drummer ], multi-instrumentalist and co-producer ]. From the start various members of ] contributed to arranging and recording and, in the cases of Jessica and Nadia Moss, Shahzad Ismaily, ], ], Tara Barnes and Dominic Cramp, additional collaborative songwriting. The list of collaborators for the project, live and on record, exceed 50 at last count. The line-up of Carla Bozulich's Evangelista changes each time they play or record. The ''Hello, Voyager'' album has 14 musicians on various pieces. The songs and sets are never without spontaneous re-invention and improvisation. Bozulich's Evangelista project began in 2006. The album was under her own name and titled ''Evangelista''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/carla-bozulich-evangelista|title=Music Review: Carla Bozulich - Evangelista|website=Tiny Mix Tapes|language=en|access-date=July 31, 2019}}</ref> The album was released by ]-based ] and was that label's first release by a non-Canadian artist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/10-essential-albums-from-constellation-records-the-legendary-independent-record-label/|title=10 Essential Albums from Constellation Records, The Legendary Independent Record Label|website=Pitchfork|date=8 September 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> In 2007, ] called ''Evangelista'' "...a vivid inner darkness which shames rock's weeping millionaires."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carla-bozulich-evangelista-kqlkpdm25mr|title=Carla Bozulich: Evangelista|last=Lee|first=Stewart|date=2006-08-06|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=2019-07-31|language=en|issn=0956-1382}}</ref> On the albums ''Hello, Voyager'' (2008), ''Prince of Truth'' (2009) and ''In Animal Tongue'' (2011), Bozulich adopted Evangelista as a project name. Some consistent members include bassist Tara Barnes, keyboardist/sampler Dominic Cramp, guitarist ], violinist ], organist Nadia Moss, drummer ], multi-instrumentalist and co-producer ]. Various members of ] contributed to arranging, recording and additional collaborative songwriting. The line-up of Evangelista changes each time they play or record. The ''Hello, Voyager'' album features 14 musicians over various pieces.


Taking another turn, in 2014, Constellation released ''Boy,'' under Carla Bozulich's name, as solo artist. This album consists of more conventionally structured songs than those appearing on the Evangelista albums. Her most recent album with Constellation, ''Quieter'' is a compilation of previously unreleased recordings that function well as a single album. ''Quieter'' was released in May 2018. Bozulich has also been involved in other projects, including collaborations with Francesco Guerri, Noveller/Sarah Lipstate and ]. In addition to singing and composing music, she is known to play guitar and work with ] and sound experimentation. In 2014, Constellation released ''Boy,'' under Bozulich's name, as solo artist. Her most recent album with Constellation, ''Quieter'' was released in May 2018 and is a compilation of previously unreleased recordings. Bozulich has also been involved in other projects, including collaborations with Francesco Guerri, Noveller/Sarah Lipstate and ].

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==Musical career== ==Musical career==
Bozulich was born in ], and raised in ].<ref name=undressing>{{cite web|work=]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-26-ca-7278-story.html|title=Undressing Ethyl Meatplow : Underground: The noisy L.A. dance trio wants audiences 'to look and see there's different ways to express yourself and your sexuality'|first=Lorraine|last=Ali|date=June 26, 1993|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220409045120/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-26-ca-7278-story.html|archive-date=April 9, 2022|url-status=live|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref> Her musical career began at age 17 in a garage in ], with her first band, The Neon Veins. Under the name Carla Noelle, she also contributed to a recording by artist Gary Kail titled "Zurich 1916", which was released in 1984 as part of the album ''Creative Nihilism''.
Bozulich was born in New York City. Her musical career began at age 17 in a garage in Lawndale, CA, with her first band, The Neon Veins. At the same time, under the name Carla Noelle, she contributed to a recording by Gary Kail called "Zurich 1916", which would be released in 1984 as part of the album ''Creative Nihilism''. Her numerous bands include the Neon Veins, Invisible Chains, ], the ], Scarnella (a duo with ], the name being an anagram of their combined first names), The ] Singers, ], The Book of Knots, (whose work appears on 2018's ''Quieter)'', as a solo artist, as a member of a duo with ], and as leader of the Evangelista project. Bozulich applied her signature style of absurdist, immediacy-collage-style mixing on all albums following the Geraldine Fibbers, producing or co-producing all her albums.


In the 2000s and 2010s, her music reflected an eleven-year self-chosen sojourn traveling the Western hemisphere playing, composing, recording and pet sitting, rather than throw in the towel and give up under-payed artistry ro get a regular job. She produced and arranged the 2013 self-titled album by the band Blue Willa and calls it her most challenging and satisfactory side-job. This collaboration was documented in a short film by Pamela Maddaleno entitled "Ignore the Noise in the Amp."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/52962405|title=IGNORE THE NOISE IN THE AMP (or how Blue Willa made an album with Carla Bozulich) ITALIAN SUBTITLES|website=Vimeo|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> She carried the recorded files from this album during 6 months of travel, mixing on her suitcase studio in multiple countries including France, Italy, Germany, Turkey and India. In March 2014, she released a solo album ''Boy'', with Evangelista member John Eichenseer and percussionist ] as her main collaborators. This album was also produced by Bozulich. Bozulich produced and arranged the 2013 self-titled album by the band Blue Willa. This collaboration was documented in a short film by Pamela Maddaleno entitled ''Ignore the Noise in the Amp.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/52962405|title=IGNORE THE NOISE IN THE AMP (or how Blue Willa made an album with Carla Bozulich) ITALIAN SUBTITLES|website=Vimeo|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>


She carried the recorded files from this album during 6 months of travel, mixing on her suitcase studio in multiple countries including France, Italy, Germany, Turkey and India. In March 2014, she released the self-produced solo album ''Boy'' with Evangelista member John Eichenseer and percussionist ] as her main collaborators.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
⚫ On May 5, 2017, Jealous Butcher records reissued ''Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home'' by the ] on vinyl in the U.S. This includes a new song "Thank You For Giving Me Life" performed by Bozulich on vocals, William Tutton on bass, Kevin Fitzgerald on drums, ] on guitar and ] on violin.


⚫ On May 5, 2017, Jealous Butcher Records reissued ''Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home'' by the ] on vinyl format in the United States. This reissue included a previously unreleased song "Thank You For Giving Me Life" performed by Bozulich on vocals, William Tutton on bass, Kevin Fitzgerald on drums, ] on guitar and ] on violin.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
⚫ Bozulich has used the name Bloody Claws to encompass any concerts or tours which would probably be one-offs, most notably as duos including 45 International concerts with Francesco Guerri, with whom she toured Europe in the spring and summer of 2009. Guerri has appeared on many Evangelista tours and recordings and the duo has plans to release their written and improvised works in line with another album, Echo Fucking Park. Both were recorded in 2017 with Bozulich charted to complete and mix them in the next year. She has also contributed to recordings by ] (most significantly as a vocalist on four tracks of his album '']''), ] and ]. She has performed live with Watt, as well as with ], ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=-167|title=The Stone Calendar|website=thestonenyc.com|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>; ], ], ], ], ] guitarist Simone Massaron (with whom she sings and provides lyrics on the 2008 album ''Dandelions on Fire'') and many others. Members of Evangelista have included ], Shahzad Ismaily, Ava Mendoza, Jeremy Drake, Gambletron, Mirko Sabatini, ], Andrea Serrapiglio, ], Nadia and Jessica Moss, Becky Foon and Jessica Catron and many others live and in studio.


⚫ Bozulich has used the name Bloody Claws for one-off concerts and tours, including 45 International concerts with Francesco Guerri, with whom she toured Europe in 2009. She has also contributed to recordings by ], ] and ]. She has performed live with Watt, as well as with ], ];<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=-167|title=The Stone Calendar|website=thestonenyc.com|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> ], ], ], ], and ] guitarist Simone Massaron.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
⚫ On August 16–17, 2009 she performed live with ] and ] in ] as part of the 2009 ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiv.ruhrtriennale.de/www.2009.ruhrtriennale.de/en/presse/kuenstler/carla-bozulich/index.html|title=Ruhrtriennale 2009-2011 - Carla Bozulich|website=archiv.ruhrtriennale.de|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>. ] performed on her 2003 album '']'', a song-by-song cover of ].


⚫ On August 16–17, 2009 she performed live with ] and ] in ] as part of the 2009 ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiv.ruhrtriennale.de/www.2009.ruhrtriennale.de/en/presse/kuenstler/carla-bozulich/index.html|title=Ruhrtriennale 2009-2011 - Carla Bozulich|website=archiv.ruhrtriennale.de|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> ] performed on her 2003 album '']'', a song-by-song cover of ].
⚫ Bozulich scored a 2001 production of ]'s play '']'', as well as the 2003 film '']'', directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard and produced by Steak House. The Geraldine Fibbers songs "Lilybelle" and "Seven or in 10," both co written by Bozulich, have been covered by ]. The Geraldine Fibbers track, ''Dragon Lady'' was featured in a 1997 girl-centric film, ''All Over Me'' and her track ''House Is Falling'' is the soundtrack to the intro scene in the film, ''Kill Me Later'' in which ], drunk and at her wit's end considers suicide while teetering on the roof of her workplace.


⚫ Bozulich scored a 2001 production of ]'s play '']'', as well as the 2003 film '']'', directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard and produced by Steak House. The Geraldine Fibbers songs "Lilybelle" and "Seven or in 10," both co written by Bozulich, have been covered by ]. The Geraldine Fibbers track "Dragon Lady" was featured in the 1997 film '']'', and "House Is Falling" is featured in the opening scene of the film '']'', in which ]’s character contemplates ] while teetering on the roof of her workplace.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
⚫ Bozulich has been asked to perform as a solo artist at two ] festivals, and at two ] festivals. In 2005, she performed ]/] composition "The Ballad of the Lily of Hell" at the ] in ],<ref>{{Citation|title=Carla Bozulich Marc Almond Dresden Dolls Patti Smith Sparks --Brecht /Weill at Meltdown|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9kYQCvePWE|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> curated by ].

⚫ Bozulich performed as a solo artist at two ] festivals as well as two ] festivals. In 2005, she performed ]/] composition "The Ballad of the Lily of Hell" at the ] in ],<ref>{{cite web|title=Carla Bozulich Marc Almond Dresden Dolls Patti Smith Sparks --Brecht /Weill at Meltdown| website=] | date=7 February 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9kYQCvePWE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/e9kYQCvePWE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=July 31, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> curated by musician ].


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==Performance art==
==''Eyes for Ears'' and ''VOYAGERS''==
Between 2000 and 2010, Bozulich created site-specific performance art pieces under the umbrella names ''Eyes for Ears'' and ''VOYAGERS''. "Fake Party" (developed for Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) took place at the ] in August 2000; an event described by Bozulich as "new music dressed up like a party meets a social event disguised as art."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121180048/http://www.carlabozulich.com/fakeparty.html|title=carlabozulich.com - Fake Party|date=21 November 2008|website=Web.archive.org|accessdate=3 June 2018}}</ref> During the piece, the audience was treated upon arrival as guests at a party at the Schindler House. Guests were pulled from the "party" into a private room, where they were serenaded by Bozulich lip-synching to old pop songs, and eventually led into yet another party coutyear. The intricate details of the event are described on Bozulich's website. A second piece, ''Performance for Fever Dreams'', was performed at the Getty Museum of Art in February 2004. The third performance in the series was a "guerilla sing-along" featuring Bozulich and others at a train station waiting room in ] on Mother's Day 2005. Bozulich had recorded sounds at the train station for a previous project and decided to hold a free participatory musical event at the location. The productions continue, intermittently, welcoming Carla's highest esteemed colleagues. These events are performed Internationally depending largely on private funding. Venues have included CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) Festival at Los Angeles' REDCAT Theater on March 5, 2010 is a highlight, titled ''Drowned To The Light,'' it featured Bozulich &mdash; along with David Rothbaum, Ezra Buchla and Danny Frankel &mdash; performing songs and improvised music before the projected films of ] musician and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. The fifth, under the series-name ''VOYAGERS'', entitled "Under the Skin" was performed on May 7, 2011 in Krems, Austria as part of ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/carla-bozulich-hits-european-road-two-parts|title=Carla Bozulich hits the European road… in two parts|website=Tiny Mix Tapes|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://the-art-of-noise.blogspot.com/2011/05/donaufestival-krems-05-07may11.html|title=The Art Of Noise|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>. This was a multimedia installation incorporating the entire Minoritenkirche Knoster monastery and grounds. Bozulich also curated three nights of performances at the festival. Between 2000 and 2010, Bozulich created site-specific performance art pieces under the umbrella names ''Eyes for Ears'' and ''VOYAGERS''. "Fake Party" (developed for ] aka SASSAS) took place at the ] in August 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carlabozulich.com/fakeparty.html|title=carlabozulich.com - Fake Party|date=21 November 2008|accessdate=3 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121180048/http://www.carlabozulich.com/fakeparty.html|archive-date=2008-11-21}}</ref> During the piece, the audience were made to feel part of a faux party. Guests were then pulled from the "party" into a private room where they were serenaded by Bozulich lip-synching to old pop songs and eventually led into yet another party setting. A second piece, ''Performance for Fever Dreams'', was performed at the ] in February 2004. The third performance in the series was a "guerilla sing-along" featuring Bozulich and others at ] in ] on Mother's Day 2005. Bozulich had recorded sounds at the train station for a previous project and decided to hold a free participatory musical event at the location. On March 5, 2010, ''Drowned To The Light,'' was performed as part of the ] CEAIT Festival at ] Theater in Los Angeles and featured Bozulich &mdash; along with David Rothbaum, Ezra Buchla and Danny Frankel &mdash; performing songs and improvised music before the projected films of ] musician and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. "Under the Skin" (as part of the ''VOYAGERS'' series) was performed on May 7, 2011 in ], Austria at ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/carla-bozulich-hits-european-road-two-parts|title=Carla Bozulich hits the European road… in two parts|website=Tiny Mix Tapes|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://the-art-of-noise.blogspot.com/2011/05/donaufestival-krems-05-07may11.html|title=The Art Of Noise|language=en|date=May 7, 2011|access-date=July 31, 2019}}</ref>


==Other work== ==Other work==
Bozulich has also worked in the illustrative arts and created many DIY music videos, arguably the best is for Bozulich has written articles, short fiction, poetry and criticism for '']'', '']''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/myth-spell/|title=Myth Spell|last=Bozulich|first=Carla|date=2005-02-24|website=LA Weekly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>, '']''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/lou-reed-1942-2013_carla-bozulich_filthy-and-demure|title=Lou Reed 1942–2013: Carla Bozulich: Filthy And Demure - The Wire|last=Bozulich|first=Carla|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>, '']'', ''Bust Magazine'' and '']'' as well as been a featured poet at the 2014 Fourth edition of the Wire Off-The-Page Festival curated by ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/31089/fourth-edition-of-the-wire_s-off-the-page-festival-announced|title=Fourth edition of The Wire 's Off The Page festival announced - The Wire|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> Qu Junctions and the Bristol literary Coalition. She has expanded her long-morphing story "The Sparkely Jewel"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stardustlanes.com/fibbers/spark.html|title=The Sparkely Jewel|website=Stardustlanes.com|accessdate=3 June 2018}}</ref> into a full-length novel near completion with some chapters already unveiled in readings. In The Guardian in a piece called, ''Cult Heroes: Carla Bozulich – Storyteller Has A Wicked Way With Murder Ballads''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/19/cult-heroes-carla-bozulich-visceral-storyteller-geraldine-fibbers|title=Cult heroes: Carla Bozulich – storyteller has a wicked way with murder ballads|last=Costa|first=Maddy|date=2016-01-19|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-31|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>, Carla states, ''“I would consider myself more a writer, and not just of lyrics,”''. In the same article, journalist, Maddy Costa balances Bozulich's self-analysis by describing her impression of experiencing Carla Bozulich as singer, as performer: ''"In restrained mood it’s sleek and plush as midnight fur – but at the slightest provocation it becomes a yowling, scratching, gnashing thing, ripping into entrails and spitting blood. Watching her perform live, there’s no doubt that the voice controls the woman, rather than vice versa: her body contorts around it, as though it’s pummeling her from the inside."'' She has also run workshops with small groups teaching the creative process.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.behance.net/gallery/20340327/Workshop-com-Carla-Bozulich-second-day|title=Behance|website=www.behance.net|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> Bozulich has written articles, short fiction, poetry and criticism for '']'', '']'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/myth-spell/|title=Myth Spell|last=Bozulich|first=Carla|date=2005-02-24|website=LA Weekly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> '']'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/lou-reed-1942-2013_carla-bozulich_filthy-and-demure|title=Lou Reed 1942–2013: Carla Bozulich: Filthy And Demure - The Wire|last=Bozulich|first=Carla|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> '']'', ''Bust Magazine'' and '']'' as well as being a featured poet at the 2014 Wire Off-The-Page Festival curated by: ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/31089/fourth-edition-of-the-wire_s-off-the-page-festival-announced|title=Fourth edition of The Wire 's Off The Page festival announced - The Wire|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> Qu Junktions and the Bristol Literary Coalition. She has expanded her short story "The Sparkely Jewel"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stardustlanes.com/fibbers/spark.html|title=The Sparkely Jewel|website=Stardustlanes.com|accessdate=3 June 2018}}</ref> into a full-length novel with some chapters already unveiled in public readings.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/19/cult-heroes-carla-bozulich-visceral-storyteller-geraldine-fibbers|title=Cult heroes: Carla Bozulich – storyteller has a wicked way with murder ballads|last=Costa|first=Maddy|date=2016-01-19|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-31|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Bozulich has also run workshop seminars teaching the creative process.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.behance.net/gallery/20340327/Workshop-com-Carla-Bozulich-second-day|title=Behance|website=www.behance.net|date=October 2014 |access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref>

==Discography== ==Discography==
* Solo albums: * Solo albums:
⚫ ** '']''
⚫ ** ''I'm Gonna Stop Killing''
⚫ ** ''Evangelista''
⚫ ** ''Unrock Instore Gig Series Volume 4'' (released in Germany and limited to 300 copies)
⚫ ** ''Boy''
** ''Quieter'' ** ''Quieter''
⚫ ** ''Boy''
⚫ ** ''Unrock Instore Gig Series Volume 4'' (released in Germany and limited to 300 copies)
⚫ ** ''Evangelista''
⚫ ** ''I'm Gonna Stop Killing''
⚫ ** '']''
* Featured solo work: * Featured solo work:
** ''New Coat of Paint: Songs of Tom Waits'' (song "On The Nickel") ** '']: Songs of Tom Waits'' (song "On The Nickel")
** '']'' (song "Blue Boys") ** '']'' (song "Blue Boys")
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Carla Bozulich
Background information
Birth nameCarla Ragin Bozulich
Born (1965-12-24) December 24, 1965 (age 59)
New York City, New York, U.S.
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
Instruments
Years active1982–present
LabelsConstellation, Folktale
WebsiteCarlaBozulich.com
Musical artist

Carla Ragin Bozulich (born December 24, 1965) is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers and Evangelista as well as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow and Scarnella. The Geraldine Fibbers recorded two albums for Virgin Records. Their first album (Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home) was described as "...a Country Feedback Masterpiece" by Vice.

Bozulich's Evangelista project began in 2006. The album was under her own name and titled Evangelista. The album was released by Montreal, Quebec-based Constellation Records and was that label's first release by a non-Canadian artist. In 2007, The Sunday Times called Evangelista "...a vivid inner darkness which shames rock's weeping millionaires." On the albums Hello, Voyager (2008), Prince of Truth (2009) and In Animal Tongue (2011), Bozulich adopted Evangelista as a project name. Some consistent members include bassist Tara Barnes, keyboardist/sampler Dominic Cramp, guitarist Nels Cline, violinist Jessica Moss, organist Nadia Moss, drummer Ches Smith, multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Shahzad Ismaily. Various members of Godspeed! You Black Emperor contributed to arranging, recording and additional collaborative songwriting. The line-up of Evangelista changes each time they play or record. The Hello, Voyager album features 14 musicians over various pieces.

In 2014, Constellation released Boy, under Bozulich's name, as solo artist. Her most recent album with Constellation, Quieter was released in May 2018 and is a compilation of previously unreleased recordings. Bozulich has also been involved in other projects, including collaborations with Francesco Guerri, Noveller/Sarah Lipstate and Devin Sarno.

Musical career

Bozulich was born in New York City, and raised in San Pedro, California. Her musical career began at age 17 in a garage in Lawndale, California, with her first band, The Neon Veins. Under the name Carla Noelle, she also contributed to a recording by artist Gary Kail titled "Zurich 1916", which was released in 1984 as part of the album Creative Nihilism.

Bozulich produced and arranged the 2013 self-titled album by the band Blue Willa. This collaboration was documented in a short film by Pamela Maddaleno entitled Ignore the Noise in the Amp.

She carried the recorded files from this album during 6 months of travel, mixing on her suitcase studio in multiple countries including France, Italy, Germany, Turkey and India. In March 2014, she released the self-produced solo album Boy with Evangelista member John Eichenseer and percussionist Andrea Belfi as her main collaborators.

On May 5, 2017, Jealous Butcher Records reissued Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home by the Geraldine Fibbers on vinyl format in the United States. This reissue included a previously unreleased song "Thank You For Giving Me Life" performed by Bozulich on vocals, William Tutton on bass, Kevin Fitzgerald on drums, Nels Cline on guitar and Jessica Moss on violin.

Bozulich has used the name Bloody Claws for one-off concerts and tours, including 45 International concerts with Francesco Guerri, with whom she toured Europe in 2009. She has also contributed to recordings by Mike Watt, Hadda Brooks and Lydia Lunch. She has performed live with Watt, as well as with Thurston Moore, Christian Marclay; Carla Kihlstedt, Wayne Kramer, Wilco, Agathe Max, and Italian guitarist Simone Massaron.

On August 16–17, 2009 she performed live with Marianne Faithfull and Marc Ribot in Düsseldorf as part of the 2009 Ruhrtriennale. Willie Nelson performed on her 2003 album The Red Headed Stranger, a song-by-song cover of his album of the same name.

Bozulich scored a 2001 production of Jean Genet's play The Maids, as well as the 2003 film By Hook or by Crook, directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard and produced by Steak House. The Geraldine Fibbers songs "Lilybelle" and "Seven or in 10," both co written by Bozulich, have been covered by Kiki and Herb. The Geraldine Fibbers track "Dragon Lady" was featured in the 1997 film All Over Me, and "House Is Falling" is featured in the opening scene of the film Kill Me Later, in which Selma Blair’s character contemplates suicide while teetering on the roof of her workplace.

Bozulich performed as a solo artist at two All Tomorrows Parties festivals as well as two Bad Bonn Kilbi festivals. In 2005, she performed Brecht/Weill composition "The Ballad of the Lily of Hell" at the Meltdown Festival in London, curated by musician Patti Smith.

Carla Bozulich and Tara Barnes in Club W71, Weikersheim

Performance art

Between 2000 and 2010, Bozulich created site-specific performance art pieces under the umbrella names Eyes for Ears and VOYAGERS. "Fake Party" (developed for Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound aka SASSAS) took place at the Schindler House in August 2000. During the piece, the audience were made to feel part of a faux party. Guests were then pulled from the "party" into a private room where they were serenaded by Bozulich lip-synching to old pop songs and eventually led into yet another party setting. A second piece, Performance for Fever Dreams, was performed at the J. Paul Getty Museum in February 2004. The third performance in the series was a "guerilla sing-along" featuring Bozulich and others at Glendale Transportation Center in Glendale, California on Mother's Day 2005. Bozulich had recorded sounds at the train station for a previous project and decided to hold a free participatory musical event at the location. On March 5, 2010, Drowned To The Light, was performed as part of the California Institute of the Arts CEAIT Festival at REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles and featured Bozulich — along with David Rothbaum, Ezra Buchla and Danny Frankel — performing songs and improvised music before the projected films of Brooklyn musician and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. "Under the Skin" (as part of the VOYAGERS series) was performed on May 7, 2011 in Krems an der Donau, Austria at Donaufestival.

Other work

Bozulich has written articles, short fiction, poetry and criticism for Alternative Press, LA Weekly, Wire Magazine, Ecstatic Peace, Bust Magazine and Ben Is Dead as well as being a featured poet at the 2014 Wire Off-The-Page Festival curated by: Wire Magazine, Qu Junktions and the Bristol Literary Coalition. She has expanded her short story "The Sparkely Jewel" into a full-length novel with some chapters already unveiled in public readings. Bozulich has also run workshop seminars teaching the creative process.

Discography

  • Solo albums:
    • Quieter
    • Boy
    • Unrock Instore Gig Series Volume 4 (released in Germany and limited to 300 copies)
    • Evangelista
    • I'm Gonna Stop Killing
    • The Red Headed Stranger
  • Featured solo work:
  • As leader of Evangelista:
    • Evangelista (released under the name Carla Bozulich)
    • Hello, Voyager
    • Live at Issue Project, NYC June 15, 2008 (self-released CD sold at live shows)
    • Prince Of Truth
    • In Animal Tongue
    • Abisso (album by OvO - Evangelista as a band collaborated on song "Fly Little Demon"
  • As lead vocalist and lyricist of the Geraldine Fibbers:
    • Get Thee Gone (vinyl only)
    • The Geraldine Fibbers (compact disc EP incorporating elements of Get Thee Gone)
    • Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home
    • Live From the Bottom of the Hill
    • What Part of "Get Thee Gone" Don't You Understand?
    • Butch
    • Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home (vinyl reissue with four bonus tracks)
  • Collaboration with Blue Willa:
    • Blue Willa (producer, guest instrumentalist and background vocalist)
  • As member of Scarnella:
    • Scarnella
    • Super Bad at 65: a Tribute to James Brown (song "Hot Pants")
  • Duet album with Ches Smith:
    • Run (available as MP3 download only)
  • Collaborative album with Simone Massaron:
    • Dandelions on Fire
  • As a featured performer with Gary Kail/Zurich 1916:
    • Creative Nihilism (as Carla Noelle)
  • As member of Invisible Chains:
    • Invisible Chains
  • As member of Ethyl Meatplow:
  • As a featured vocalist with Mike Watt:
  • As a featured vocalist and composer with Barry Adamson:
  • As a featured vocalist with Wayne Kramer:
    • Citizen Wayne (song "Back When Dogs Could Talk")
  • As a featured duet vocalist with Hadda Brooks:
    • I've Got News For You (song "Sometimes I'm Happy")
  • As a featured vocalist with Victor Krummenacher:
    • Bittersweet (song "Maybe A True Love")
  • As a featured vocalist with Two Dollar Guitar:
    • Weak Beats And Lame-Ass Rhymes (song "Bozo Shoes"
  • Electric Guitar, Sampling Keyboard with Nels Cline:
    • Destroy All Nels Cline
  • As a featured vocalist and musician with Bonnie Barnett, Carla Bozulich, Rick Potts:
    • Various - SoundCd no. 1 (song "Do You Dig?")
  • As a featured performer:
    • Various - SoundCd no. 1 (song "Carla Bozulich's Fake Party: Audience Cassette Tape Improv")
  • As a featured vocalist of The Scott Amendola Band:
    • Cry (song "Masters of War")
  • As a featured duet vocalist with Lydia Lunch:
    • Smoke In The Shadows (song "I Love How You...")
    • A Fistful of Desert Blues (with Cypress Grove—song "End of My Rope")
  • As a featured vocalist with Gowns:
    • Dangers Of Intimacy (song "Apple")
  • As a featured vocalist with Nels Cline:
    • Various - Secular Steel (song "Eagle Rockers") [2004)
  • As a featured vocalist for The Book of Knots:
    • Traineater (song "View From a Watertower")
  • As a featured vocalist for Bulbul:
    • 6 (song "Shenzhou")
  • As a featured vocalist for Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu:
    • Gagarin (song " I Can´t Feel It Anymore")
  • As a featured additional vocalist for Hawnay Troof:
    • Daggers At The Moon (songs "U Can Just Ask" and "Like Her")
  • As a featured vocalist with (r):
    • Drama Queen (song "'See What The Boys In The Backroom Will Have")
  • As a featured additional vocalist for Whitman:
    • Dog Rose Gall (song "Wishes And War Paint")
  • As a featured vocalist with Xiu Xiu:
    • Always (song "Smear the Queen")
  • As a featured vocalist with Jherek Bischoff:
    • Composed (song "Counting")
  • As a featured vocalist with Aidan Baker:
    • Already Drowning (song "Lorelei/Common Tongue")
  • As a featured vocalist with TSU!:
    • HMS Angora (songs "Lilac and Stork" and "Day of Skucha")

References

  1. "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (Carla Ragin Bozulich Los Angeles, California, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
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  3. "Music Review: Carla Bozulich - Evangelista". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  4. "10 Essential Albums from Constellation Records, The Legendary Independent Record Label". Pitchfork. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  5. Lee, Stewart (2006-08-06). "Carla Bozulich: Evangelista". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  6. Ali, Lorraine (June 26, 1993). "Undressing Ethyl Meatplow : Underground: The noisy L.A. dance trio wants audiences 'to look and see there's different ways to express yourself and your sexuality'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
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  8. "The Stone Calendar". thestonenyc.com. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  9. "Ruhrtriennale 2009-2011 - Carla Bozulich". archiv.ruhrtriennale.de. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  10. "Carla Bozulich Marc Almond Dresden Dolls Patti Smith Sparks --Brecht /Weill at Meltdown". YouTube. 7 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
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  12. "Carla Bozulich hits the European road… in two parts". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  13. "The Art Of Noise". May 7, 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  14. Bozulich, Carla (2005-02-24). "Myth Spell". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  15. Bozulich, Carla. "Lou Reed 1942–2013: Carla Bozulich: Filthy And Demure - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  16. "Fourth edition of The Wire 's Off The Page festival announced - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  17. "The Sparkely Jewel". Stardustlanes.com. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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