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I've been quite keen to hear 'Prince Of Truth' that latest offering from Evangelista. I never bought their last record but I do recall several moments on there were really very buzzing and had me making "phwoar" type sounds. Mainly the heavy moments that recalled the Melvins or something. Anyway this album was constructed in a fairly un-conventional way as Carla Bozulich was struck with pneumonia during the recording sessions so left the band get on with it and then re-constructed it and added vocals later on. Constellation are calling it "an entirely original zone at the intersection of improv, noise, post-industrial and post-punk music". I'm not sure I agree on the entirely original part but it's otherwise a fair statement. CD and LP in lush packaging as you would expect from Constellation.* With Prince Of Truth, Bozulich has shaped her Evangelista group into something more committed, more complex and more sonically and compositionally adventurous than ever.
* Prince Of Truth is a sort of Pro Tools fantasia wrought from purgatory, not only figuratively and stylistically, but quite literally as well. Initial tracking was scheduled at the Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal, with regular Bozulich/Evangelista collaborators Shahzad Ismaily, Lisa Gamble, Thierry Amar, Nadia Moss and Ches Smith all in attendance.
* On day two of the sessions, a nasty throat infection Carla had been fighting on tour evolved into full-blown pneumonia, confining her to bed for the ensuing week. The band went on to track the song foundations, along with a pile of extras, outtakes and overdubs, and Bozulich returned to her Los Angeles home with these stacks of tracks digitised from the analogue master tapes. Over the next two months, Carla, Tara and Dominic would de- and re-construct these sessions, with Carla adding vocals and rallying additional contributions from Jessica Catron and Nels Cline.
* The result is an album of searing and beguiling depth, occupying an entirely original zone at the intersection of improv, noise, post-industrial and post-punk music and the incantatory/seductive/soul persona of the chanteuse.
* Prince Of Truth by Evangelista is available in custom CD and LP packaging using 100% recycled paperboard and featuring reproductions of two stunning paintings by Jesse McCloskey.
* FOR FANS OF: Erase Errata, Erase Errata, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Patti Smith, The Fall, Gowns, The Geraldine Fibbers.
* Tracklisting: 1.The Slayer 2.Tremble Dragonfly 3.I Lay There In From Of Me Covered In Ice 4.You Are A Jaguar 5.Iris Didn’t Spell 6.Crack Teeth 7.On The Captain’s Side
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