Hi All.

Evangelista is touring this week for 5 days down the west coast of the United States. We're up here with Jherek Bischoff, our temp bandmate (from our beloved The Dead Science) hangin' with his mom and dad practicing at their house in the woods on Bainbridge Island. It's strangely cold for this part of the world---23 degrees. That's 5 celsius---not that interesting for most of you in the really cold places but I only brought my little sailor jacket and some newsboy pants..

About sailors. Get this: Jherek Bischoff grew up on a sailboat. Went to school for some years but then when he was 14 his family just took off on the boat again for a couple of years sailing around Southern Canada, down around the West coast of the USA, visiting every country in Central America through the Panama Canal all the way to South America and then up again and across the Gulf Of Mexico. At one point they were actually and truly chased by pirates at the place where Honduras, El Salvadore and Nicaragua all meet----Golfo De Fonseca. Mike Watt has sailed pretty much all over the place with just as many wild adventures, though mostly over landlocked states of the USA in his boat (his trusty Econoline tour van). I challenge Mike Watt and Jherek's dad, Mr. Bischoff, to sail the Puget Sound together and see who is the most musical, bookish sailing man on the sea! Mike Watt, get up here to the Pacific Northwest and sail your little flannel ass off!

12-09 Seattle at El Corazon with Thrones and Resistor or Waves
12-10 Portland at Dante's with Thrones and Two Ton Boa
12-12 San Francisco at The Hemlock with Thrones and Late Young
12-13 Los Angeles at The Echoplex with Thrones, and Imaad Wasif

The band for this tour is:
Tara Barnes on electric bass and voice
Dominic Cramp on keyboards and laptop
Michael Tracy on drums
Jherek Bischoff on Double bass and guitar
Me

If you can't afford the ticket at The Echoplex please write to our elves at info@carlabozulich.com and make arrangements to get on the discount list. Please come out to this show. It's really really important that you show up at this show. Tell your friends to come, too.

In Los Angeles there will be 3 special guests joining the 5 of us:
Jessica Catron on cello
Ezra Buchla on viola
Jeremy Drake on guitar

There's a gig planned at The Stone in New York City in late February---date TBA. Maybe some other thing(s) surrounding that. More TBA.

I will perform on March 5th at The CalArts Center for Experiments in Art Festival at Redcat in Los Angeles with a special guest or two.

I have hundreds of rants, poems, chapters, haiku and otherwise unpublished writings. Impose Magagzine stepped up with this thing from 2006:

Pierre et Gilles understand me.

PS---Love and peace to mon oncle Steak.

Just wanted to tell you who we are on this tour of Europe. Such a fine bunch of monsters!

Ruling.

In Brussels:

Hello Friends, I'm sorry but the shows in Spain tonite and tomorrow nite, Madrid and Vitoria, have been canceled as have all the USA tour gigs outside of the west coast. Here are the dates remaining at this time:
06. Nov. 2009 Brussels (BE), AB w/ Wilco
08. Nov. 2009 Nuernberg (DE), K4
09. Nov. 2009 Colmar (FR), Festival Supersounds
10. Nov. 2009 Geneva (CH), L'Usine w/ Hair Police

09-Dec-09 Seattle, WA, El Corazon
10-Dec-09 Portland, OR, Dante's
11-Dec-09 Eureka, CA, Jambalaya
12-Dec-09 San Francisco, CA, Hemlock
13-Dec-09 Los Angeles, CA, Echo (probably)

And Happy belated Halloween...

It is the 1 year anniversary of the night Tara and me and fellows Vincent and Antoine were randomly attacked on the street in Paris. At the time I was singing "Outside Of Town" and couldn't remember the words or the chords, In short, I was butchering the performance pretty badly. But still the man had no right to clock me like that! Ha. He broke my fucking cheekbone. It's alright, at least I'm not-------HIM. A couple of people have asked me if I was afraid I'd run into him next time I was in Paris. He was a complete stranger. Thanks for the love but....get a grip.

Scarnella (Nels and Me) will be playing on Saturday night (November 15). Outside Of Town is the first song I ever wrote. Nels and I did the song, duo, as an extended improv at the end of many Geraldine Fibbers shows. It's the song of a girl killing a fucking creep who did her wrong. Maybe, in honor of my beautiful cheek, we will do it again Saturday. The whole night will be filled with amazing music. Then Monday I play solo at a house party. Check below for all show details.
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Please take note!!!!!

Here's a video for Evangelista's "Winds Of Saint Anne" made by an incredible Italian artist. I only know her name is Sara and that she's posted lots of film things on my myspace page that led me to ask her if she would do one for us. It is fucking great. Sara. Tell me your last name. You are great.
Winds of Saint Anne

and her myspace page is wicked: http://www.myspace.com/manuit

also, look at this link:Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space

It's an appropriately disturbing video montage of the works of 16th century doom metal painter, Pieter Bruegal set to the swashbuckling, apocolyptic buddy-song, Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space, by Evangelista. All I know is that the person who did this goes by the handle, Aluminium Face. In the USA we spell it: aluminum. This girl or guy ain't from around here. Show yourself.
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So, again about the guy in Paris, I broke my cheekbone on his fist, which he swung at me while running at me full speed with his 6 foot+ frame. Apparently this gave me a concussion. We didn't know it was that bad because..... well because my head got hit and I wasn't thinking straight. We just thought I had the mother of all black eyes and my head and cheek hurt because, well yours would too! We kept touring. Played 14 more shows. I blame the fact that I went through those shows with that amount of blinding pain on the fact that I grew up in San Pedro with all those intense, hard-living longshoreman, house painters and of course, the ultimate tour dogs, the ultimate role models for discipline on the road, The Minutemen! Well, we would have lost all the money we payed for plane tickets and car rental----thousands of lucre that we couldn't pay back. We would also have never seen Pompeii's volcano or way up high in Tuscany or the incredible island of Sicily, and whatever else I can't remember..... but I'm sure it was great. I remember laughing a lot and going, "ouch" and then again and again and again, the same thing, ha ha ouch, all day, every day, ha ha ha ouch......... I wish you could all be with Tara Barnes in hard times. "Come on Carla, let's take more pictures of your purple face! Put this cannelloni in your nose!". I am lucky, for sure and for reals.

INFO FOR THE GIGS THIS WEEK:

first, tomorrow Saturday, november 15---(this show will be transmitted on KXLU unless everyone is too drunk):

then on Monday Nov 17 (i don't know the times):

This is surely the finest day of my life---of American history. It would be perfect if not for Prop 8. Anyway.... The way I was raised the issue of and battle for civil rights and equality was the most important awareness my parents passed to me. I'm blown away that I lived to see a person elected president who is believable in their intentions and seems to care more about others, even outside America, than himself. That should be the least we expect from a human pulling so many strings.

To me racism is by far the most damaging force in the history of our world. That Obama's an African American alone would have made this the event of my life. I really, really keep thinking I'm dreaming. I bet i'm not alone in that. He's not perfect and I guess we'll all see what that means as times passes...... Prop 8 was passed and that shows us how far we still have to go.

We are really all brothers and sisters today. I'm sending love.....

Carla

Good morning, Revolution:
You're the very best friend
I ever had.
We gonna pal around together from now on.

---Langston Hughes

hey there

thursday nite
evangelista opens for xiu xiu at the echo in LA. get your tix early cuz the show will likely sell out. the group for this gig will be a one time only, amazing line-up. please come out for this or other shows on this small tour. it'll be our last shows together in the states for what's likely to be a very long time.

LA gig:
car---guitar, etc
tara barnes---bass, undersounds
dominic cramp---keys, electrostuff, mouth whistle
gamble---drums, racket
ezra buchla---viola, mandolin, other
jeremy drake---guitar
jessica catron(!)---cello
bobb bruno---drum
all voices
someone will blow the trumpet

i wish we could have this band for the whole tour but we're traveling light. ezra will be at houston, birmingham, atlanta, charlotte and baltimore. most of the shows will likely be me, tar, dom, and gamble----with occasional friends dropping by. new york should be another really wicked line-up.

there will be a hand-packaged live cd of an especially favorited structure/improvisation performance at the issue project in nyc recently, with beautiful art featuring a enchanting sculpture by Les Deux Garcons on the cover plus tons more stuff that you may or may not ever see again on the merch table. we are looking for places to stay on this trip. if you have room fr us, please email. if you want to trade the cost of a hotel/motel room or 2 for something unique and special we make for you alone, please let us know. seriously. we'll do something nice and special for you with your beautiful name all over it if that suits you---- in lights or snakes or artificial tears--- or with some of tara's sharpie spirit animals encrusting the thing... the object... or with something we found in the metalscraps tied to a haystack and fictionalized. and we'll pass you some of our fav music. and plus wow we'll give you the favorited issue project cd, entitled "Favorited."

all these dates are full band Evangelista sets with xiu xiu except sept 11---- so far it's just me opening for keiji haino ----at the wirefest in chicago at the empty bottle--- we have not given up on getting the whole band there yet.

come out!:

aug 14 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo

aug 15 - San Diego, CA - Casbah

aug 16 - Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture

aug 18 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad

aug 19 - Lubbock, TX - Tequila Jungle

aug 20 - Austin, TX - Mohawk (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 21 - Houston, TX - Orange Show Center for Visionary Art (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 22 - Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree Cafe (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 23 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 24 - Charlotte, NC - Milestone (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 25 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 26 - Providence, RI - Living Room (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 27 - Boston, MA - Paradise (also with Common Eider, King Eider)

aug 28 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (also with Prurient, Common Eider, King Eider)

sept 11 - chicago, as above

sept 13 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill (also with Prurient, Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone)

gary kail in the front with his band anti, around 1982
he was one of my dearest............monsters!

tour dates below the rants

hi there

thank you for coming to our recent shows. always an adventure. the last Evangelista show was possibly the best. a special idea just for the night. tara, shahzad, dominic, gamble. "fun and daunting", i head someone say. shahzad and i made a little song for efrim and jessica's dog that everyone in the room sang along to. 22 people in the hot little brooklyn room (issue project) all stomped and sang as the lights went on and off and the eggs got rattled and the big drum boom boomed and voices came in and out of time and gamble running all over the place! you could hear andrea paying the cello all the way from somewhere in germany... all in surround sound! please support brooklyn's issue project. it's really something. we will have cds of this night---limited editions at our coming shows with xiu xiu......

tara has aptly named this xiu xiu tour the MONSTERS OF MERCH TOUR. we will simply not break even if we don't kick ass on merch. we ended up with way too much, especially shirts and stuff because of canceled dates and optimism. we will have some rare stuff. please buy. and please come to the shows if you can. we won't be able to do these north american tours anymore unless a miracle happens and either the promoters start paying us $20 for every person that pays $7 at the door or gas drops to pre-1985 prices. in short, we need more bodies at the shows or grants or something to be able to play for you on this continent in the future. those of you who have come to the shows know what i'm talking about-----100% throwing down, no matter how many people in the room. it's our pleasure.

now, many of you have given us hotel rooms or nice places to sleep and cake and things in the past to make tour in the usa easier. we don't always say yeah but this trip is gonna be all about sayn, YEAH. you feel free to help us out! really. don't be shy about it. i got the laptop i'm typing to you on w/money people sent me to keep me on the road. believe me, without a laptop the whole thing would halt. writing, recording, making tours, making false identities on wikipedia....

taking this concept of "help us entertain you", check this out. we really do still want to play in the states sometimes. please look below the tour dates to take in our latest hairbrain scheme.

i did a track with Bul Bul for their new album that came out recently which was super fun to record. we followed it up with a gig in vienna where they asked me to decide what we were gonna do at the show. i wrote a really fun set of detailed recipes for chaos turning into structure into car wrecking noise into acapella german drinking sing alongs. it was super fun and they are the best guys (and they're not afraid of doing anything embarrassing!!). http://www.flickr.com/photos/davnull/2541010293/in/photostream/

i did a track with mickey finn, led by another italian monster of sound, zeno de rossi along with cuong vu. the song's called We Are What We Teach----speaking against war and rascism

NOW our beloved Dead Science are on Constellation. tara got to hear their new album and she warned me that i won't believe how good it is. yay! they are so gay!! now we can really fight. cuz now we are brothers! brothers in gayness! they are the BEST. i just sang on one of their songs for something they're doing with a lot of guests. 12 tracks of carla in 3.5 minutes, wearing hot pants during the entire recording session--- that's where it's at.

this interview was published and i like it: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Carla-Bozulich-Evangelista

we're working on some dates for southern europe for late november, early december.

look at this pic of nels and jessica moss during a geraldine fibbers show:

we're working on some dates for southern europe for late november, early december.

jam on this you guys as a thing that might be a

really

good idea:

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA

We have this experience experiment in the works where we will hire our sorcery out to our fans, friends, and colleagues.

and here it is:

For the cost of us traveling plus $100 for each bandmember, Carla Bozulich's Evangelista will play for at least an hour at your birthday party, graduation,funeral, going away party, existential malaise

excorcism, body aches, muscle soreness, clean/sober birthday or anniversary celebration, decapitation, wedding, art opening and closings, dance party, magazine, store or yaught launchings, cult-removal, viking funerals, removal of orthodontic contraptions and/or root canal, chili cook-off, catcentrics, batmitzvah, pet lizard funeral, et cetera.

included in this fee we will also:

1. write a song expecially for you and your friends. Really. you give us a topic and one to five keywords.

2. arrange and perform any one cover song of your choosing, or any request from back catalog,that is under six minutes in length. totally fine to request songs we have never heard, just send us the mp3. please be prepared for any song to sound completely different from what you are used to.

3.give you one mix-tape made just for you from EACH BANDMEMBER. yes! for you to rock on your cd cassette deck or laser dot all night long. Hours of grooves and drones and things you can smell with your ears.

4. eat a bunch of your snacks

5. speak in a language that only we understand--- frequently, accidentally and without warning, especially while we set up, eat and break down our equipaje.

6. if, for instance, you and all your friends (you're gonna need friends to get all this cash together) just like screeching gargantuan feedback and vacuum cleaner sounds ONLY or if maybe you're getting married to a shy muppet or getting over ear canal reversal surgery and you'd like us to do quieter songs with not much cursing on your great aunts' 102nd birthday, we will take it as a fun challenge. if you're into all improvised/specially devised shows, it is my forte and it will be a pleasure. whatevr. we're easy

7. if you want to do this but you want to do it at a club in your town, that's totally possible. we need to have all the same things end up in all the same places, but we can arrange things with a venue to make this a special nite or day.

requisites:

1. scheduling is a bitch.

2. we need two or 3 hotel rooms, or a righteous house with beds and couches to sleep on and clean towels. no insence, hard drugs, cigs or pot pouri, or cat piss, please.

3. you need to supply a PA with reverb! we will show up in time to set it up with you and make the sound nice before people arrive.

4. we need cool foods

5. if things turn ugly we're outta there ie: hard drugs or listening to U2 or Sting.

note: even if you are not located along a good route for us, please email us anyway. if you rock the plane tickets and the amps and stuff, we will be there.

NOTE: discount if you have cats and can prove it. double discount if your pet is a stray or rescue!!!!!! double again discount if your pet comes with a great pet rescue story.