I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: EVANGELISTA-Prince of Truth [CST061] (2009).

This is the second disc by Evangelista, the band fronted by Carla Bozulich. This disc continues in the vein or the previous disc, which is a little disappointing.

The disc is chock full of a lot of noise: stringed instruments, textures, layers, but they all add up to very little.  Bozulich’s voice is in another location entirely.  On most of the songs, there’s no real connection.

Two songs in the middle, “You Are a Jaguar,” and “Iris Didn’t Spell” are more reasonable attempts where Bozulich’s wild vocals are wedded to a more standard musical composition.  And those tracks work pretty well.  But when there’s so much directionless stuff floating around on the disc, it’s hard to want to listen to it.

[READ: May 25, 2010] “Afraid to be Men”

This is a conversation between two men.  They are given no context and are speaking abstractly.  These two things combines make for a less than satisfying read.

Admittedly, this piece is excerpted from a longer piece called “Manifesto.”  I’m not planning to read the longer piece, so I’ll never find out of context is given.

These two unnamed men are dialoguing (with no quotation marks), about things that they will miss.  Again, without any context given, the world could be over, or they could be lost at sea, or they could just be musing in the backyard.  We don’t know.  They miss things that are fairly obvious, including his dog.

I find I am often disappointed by excerpts in Harper’s and this is no exception.  I shouldn’t really criticize the story without reading the whole thing, but I’m just not interested enough in what I did read to go hunt down the full thing.