Evangelista

Carla Bozulich, working as singer, composer, and instrumentalist, has launched a series of musical projects that includes Evangelista. After Scarnella ended—the brief duo she shared with guitarist Nels Cline, who had already played alongside her in the Geraldine Fibbers—and after her first solo recording delivered a respectful yet fiercely personal reading of Willie Nelson’s landmark Red Headed Stranger, Bozulich went to Montreal to record for Constellation Records. Shahzad Ismaily handled production and arrangements while members of A Silver Mt. Zion supplied additional instrumentation. The 2006 album that emerged carried the title Evangelista. To promote the record Bozulich mounted an international tour, enlisting bassist Tara Barnes and several of the same musicians who had appeared on the sessions. Bozulich and Barnes began writing songs together, and for the next album Bozulich decided to give that partnership its own identity under the Evangelista name. Returning to Montreal with many of the earlier contributors, the pair completed the material that Constellation issued as Hello, Voyager in spring 2008. The group pushed further into shadowy, loosely shaped terrain on Prince of Truth, released in 2009. Following that album’s appearance, Bozulich toured with Evangelista. She abandoned her Los Angeles base for a peripatetic routine, moving between locations to write and record with an expanding circle of players while stretching familiar song structures toward broader experimental horizons. The period yielded Evangelista’s fourth album, In Animal Tongue, which Constellation released in September 2011.