A deep sound and far reaching experimental bent would probably describe Carla Bozulich. Her larger work started with ethyl meatplow, a sexual outrage punk experimental with mix of spoken words, vocal and rock. She describes this group achievement as “sequenced insanity inspired folks all over the US to dance, disrobe, beat off or beat them up.” After that she founded Geraldine Fibbers in 1993, the greatest undiscovered band of the 90’s. A short lived but critically well received bands. It exhausted itself after 5 years, but during that period Carla met avant guitarist Nels Cline. They decided to fully realized their art rock potential with the formation of Scarnella. The diverse sound experiments continued till today.
With all those experiments, she took a dive into ‘country’, from all genre, with a delightfull art rock touch. 2003 saw the release of Willie Nelson cover album played by a group of industrial strength avant jazz players. Bozulich sings with guitarist Nels Cline, bassist Devin Hoff and percussionist Scott Amendola. Last we know, she is scheduled to do a show with Mike Watt in LA with unknown future project. Frankly, I am curious if see will ever do some strange accoustic project. That would be delightfull considering she has the conceptual skill and voice more than average top chart bands.
Carla Bozulich : Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain , Red Headed Stranger (Dicristina Stair, 2003)
Carla Bozulich : Lonesome Roads , single
Scarnella : Death By Northwest , Scarnella (Smells Like Records, 1998)
Geraldine Fibbers : Fancy , What Part of ‘Get Thee Gone’ Don’t You Understand? (Sympathy 4 the R.I., 1997)
see also: NPR small audio review