Composed, recorded, and mixed by Lisa Bella Donna
at Appalachian Recording. Fostex & SSL Equipment were used.
An all analog recording. Cover Design: LBD
credits
released April 1, 2022
Special Thanks to all the beautiful humans at Moog Music Inc.
Solid State Logic, Lower West Side Studio, Universal Audio,
Lauten Audio, Synthetic Sound Labs, STG Sound Labs, Focal Audio,
Hologram Electronics,Frequency Central Modular, Foley Electronics, Akron Hardwoods, Evan Bartholemew & Behind The Sky Records, Ben Vehorn, Keith Barnhart, Electronic Sound UK, Norman Records UK, Noise Bug, Dina Pearlman, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Harold LaRue, Abracadabra Coffee, Brandon Reisig, Scotti Matney, Ara Kazanjian, Tristan Whitney Weary, Joni Mariabronn and to all of the listeners that have kindly supported my music. Thank you.
Lisa Bella Donna April 2022
Appalachian Mountains
This record is Dedicated to Jen & Matthew
To celebrate their beautiful & musical marriage.
Also, In loving memory of Jason Lee Smith (1973-2022)
On American Watercolors (43'25") Lisa Bella Donna reconciles enthusiasm for music technology with a reverence for the creation of mood, texture and atmosphere. Delivering this work with all the eloquence and excellence of more prevalent, better known methods and forms of art, each of its two lengthy tracks put forth a gorgeous love song to electricity. Seeking the current moving across the ages, these pieces both begin by emanating a quiet magnetism. Inching toward profundity, nothing can break the transportive spell.
Suggesting inroads to the unknown, American Watercolors extends dynamically from quiet synth whispers and venting drones, to echoing sequencer runs and a commanding keyboard croon. Beneath spiraling electronic accents patterns cycle in metronomic syncopation. Sustaining like an engine in its power zone, we are propelled onward. As raw waveforms blend with rounded tones, buzzing notes resound with immediacy. Vibrantly animated, the sounds and tones on this album are pushed, pulled, coaxed and commanded to shape an ethereal realm, while lead lines bring a focus to the story of the song. Drawn along by outsized electronic chords this etheric articulation of space seethes with the artist's excitement.
With its haunting and persistent tellurian undertones American Watercolors is tender, mystical and spacious, saturated in forest spirits and the broader dream of planetary consciousness - proof that music carried out seriously is its own undeniable action.
Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END - 14 April 2022
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Lisa Bella Donna gives the full measure of her talent as a composer with the use of the Moog One through this collection of short pieces revealing all the creative possibilities of this new synthesizer. The final piece, which is the longest of this album, is of great mastery and extremely pleasing to listen to. An album to get without delay. burlybrawl
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Every track on this compilation is excellent. They all have an overarching "meditative progressive synthesizer landscape" vibe, but it's very stylistically diverse. It's exceptional for deep concentration. Highly recommended. Nick Suda
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If I wanted to point someone to Steve Roach's music, I'd start them here. This record spans some of Roach's signature styles, like the percolating synths in "Currents of Compassion", the dreamy abstraction of "Prometheus Passage", the tribal rhythms of "The Gone Place", and the elegiac majesty of "What Remains". It's stunning all around and guaranteed to make any day better. fyeahmetal
Inspired by the Syrian desert, neoclassical composer and producer Miguel Del Tertre creates a soothing, hopeful sound-world. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2021
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Each of these tracks are skeleton keys that open a portal into another dimension. As such, they are all wonderful in their own right. This release reaches back in time to an age of analog semi-generative ambient exploration. Very much worth a listen. 69dragynz