CARLA BOZULICH + Hrsta + The Tall One Behind

Mon 23rd Oct 2006

Unluck Records association with
Plan B Magazine
CARLA BOZULICH
+ Hrsta
+ The Tall One Behind

Doors 8.00
£7 via WeGotTickets

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 when Carla was 18 years old.
She 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, she founded The Geraldine Fibbers, going on to record and tour incessantly 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 her 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 and has collaborated with Patti Smith, Mike Watt, Ches Smith and countless others. New album 'Evangelista' out on Constellation Records.

Hrsta (pronounced "hursh-tah".) is a Montreal post-rock band that records on Constellation Records. The band's leader, Mike Moya (guitar and voice), was also one of the founding members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Although people tend to compare Hrsta's sound with that of GYBE, A Silver Mt. Zion or even Set Fire to Flames (which may be interpreted as somewhat normal because Mike Moya has played/plays with them all and his guitar sound is unique), Hrsta differs from the previous in the use they make of Moya's voice, a characteristic that's as unique as his guitar skills. The strings are almost always used just as a means to fill a texture or complement the overall sound.

Haunting lullabies and crushing low end bass riffs from Brighton-based artist/musician The Tall One Behind. Recently shared stages with Thrones, Zombi and Thanksgiving. One cassette release to date with Undereducated Music.

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