CREDITS:

NOMADICA was composed & produced by Grammy Award-Winning Carla Patullo at The Soundry in Los Angeles.

*FLY UNDER, which was written by Martha Wainwright & Carla Patullo.
Martha was recorded at Utopia Studios in Woodstock, NY, engineered by Jeremy Ofen

Strings were recorded at Jungle City Studios in NYC, engineered by Brendan Morawski.

Choir recorded at The Soundry, directed by Alexander Loyd Blake, engineered by Xiaoyi Ying.

The album was mixed and mastered by Daniel Kresco.

BIO

When GRAMMY®-Winning artist and composer Carla Patullo was a child, her grandmother sang to her, asking Carla to record her voice as a way to hold on to her memory. Years later, following a near-death experience, Carla recreated her grandmother’s instinct — she recorded her own voice, and So She Howls, a cathartic and cinematic soundscape, was born, winning the 2024 GRAMMY® Award for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album.

“During that dark time, I sang into my phone and this primal sound came out,” the LA-based artist recalls. “It made me more aware of the therapeutic power of music.”

Now a survivor, Carla turns her attention to deeper personal terrain with NOMADICA, her forthcoming album. In it, she revisits the sudden loss of her mother in a car accident years ago, imagining the tender conversations they never got to have.

Carla is a solo artist, a film score composer, a songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist — she calls her sensibility ‘genre fluid’. Her music connects with the emotions found in grief, healing, redemption, and joy. She is best known for an aesthetic that includes intricate orchestral passages, lush acoustics, beds of dreamy vocals, and adventurous electronics.

Her last album, So She Howls, is both primal and palatial, lavished with melodious non-verbal vocals, soothing choral rifts, uplifting affirmations, and a rich tapestry of glistening orchestral sounds, dreamy synths, and found sonic atmospherics. Throughout, Carla maintains the emotional urgency of the tracks by preserving imperfections. “I wanted to capture the moment, so I tried to be a minimalist with editing,” she says.

So She Howls is intended to be experienced in one sitting. “My hope is that the listener will come through the process of the album feeling better, like working through a grief cycle,” she shares. 

The new album, NOMADICA, will once again include Patullo’s world-renowned musician friends, Martha Wainwright, the vocal ensemble Tonality (Bjork) led by Alexander Lloyd Blake; the Scorchio Quartet (Philip Glass), comprised of Martha Mooke (David Bowie), Lorenza Ponce (The Chicks), Leah Collof (Trey Anastasio), and Frederika Krier (Sly and the Family Stone); and a surprise special guest vocalist to be announced soon. 

Patullo is a lifelong musician who earned a bachelor’s degree in songwriting and a master’s of film music from Berklee College of Music. She began her career releasing albums and touring with the rock band, White Widow, before signing on as musical director with Sandra Bernhard where she performed with various artists such as Liza Minnelli, Rufus Wainwright, and more.

After her time with Bernhard, Carla embarked on a successful career as a composer for film and TV. Some of Carla’s recent film scores include the feature film Bitterroot, which just premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival; the Disney+ film Maxine, starring Margaret Cho; Everybody Dies . . . Sometimes, directed by Charlotte Hamblinl; Magic Hour, an upcoming dramedy starring Miriam Shor; My Name Is Maria De Jesus, an HBO Latino film; Porno, Fangoria’s recent SXSW hit; and the IDA shortlisted documentary Lotte that Silhouette Girl. 

She is a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab alumna, and four-time Hollywood Music in Media Award Nominee. This past year, because of Carla’s work related to animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger, two of Carla’s film scores were presented at The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences Museum. As her body of film work shows, Patullo is passionate about writing music that supports and advances inclusion for women, immigrants, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Carla is also a prolific songwriter and has written over 100 songs with placements on film and TV shows, such as the Sundance award-winning film Spa Night, Teen Titans Go (Cartoon Network), The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Skins (UK), Sabrina the Teenage Witch, L.A. A Queer History (PBS), and many more.

Currently, Carla is working in her LA Studio, The Soundry, on her next album, NOMADICA, and scoring music for a documentary about bats. Looking back on her journey, she says: “I’ve learned to take something horrible and allow it to make me more vulnerable and and more alive.” 

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