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Odyssey

by Lisa Bella Donna

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An album of short and dynamic pieces which forcefully demonstrates the talent of the keyboard musician of the synthesist musician and the mastery of her machines. A long live performance concludes this excellently crafted album! To discover ! Favorite track: Hero, Hero.
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nettibert Mothership is great. Hero, Hero ... sometimes it sounds a little like King Crimson at Starless And Bible Black.

So I hear - somtimes ... a little - these old heros in Lisas music. Maybe that's the reason I like it. Favorite track: The Mothership.
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mileto Simply the Best. I always have no words to describe the feelings while listening Lisa. She’s in the flow of the universe. Thank you for sharing
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Amanda Falke Such a masterful album. Amazing synthesizer work reminiscent of Klaus Schulze and other greats. A classic artist. Landscapes of cascading synths punctuated by capable, classically trained musicianship. Legendary. Favorite track: The Mothership.
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Steven Beaumont Awesome ! Seen the mothership video on Moog Music Channel , recognized the first track from the first note , really love the sounds ! Glad to be playing this in my headphones !
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erwinschuster What a Synth! Great!
Favorite track: The Mothership.
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Special edition release in collaboration with Omnia / Live Acts.
Buenos Aries, Argentina. Contains unreleased and previously released material. Remixed & remastered.

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released July 30, 2020

Lisa Bella Donna: Moog Synthesizers & Sequencers,
ARP 2600, ARP Odyssey, ARP Omni, ARP String Ensemble, SCI Prophet T8, Hammond Organ, Farfisa Organ, Mellotron, Fender Rhodes Electric Piano.

All compositions by Lisa Bella Donna
Recording & Mixing engineers: LBD, Trent Thompson, Max Ravitz, & Harold LaRaue.
Mastered by Harold LaRue @ www.haroldlaruemastering.com
Sansui 4 Channel reel to reels were used in the creation of this recording.

Photography: Tristan Whitney Weary

Special thanks to Moog Music, Pablo Mat, Ernesto Romero, Everyone at Omnia & Live Acts.

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Lisa Bella Donna Releases “Odyssey”
By J.P. Fontana on July 31, 2020

www.synthjunky.com/lisa-bella-donna-releases-odyssey/

Few things brighten may day more than a notification from Lisa Bella Donna’s Bandcamp page that a new release is ready for listening pleasure! And Odyssey joins the ranks of the some of the Sonic Sorceress’ finest work.

Track by Track

The Mothership – We are lulled into Lisa’s future-retro synthwave universe as the mood is set with lush polyphonic strings, a positively face-melting lead that culminates in a dive-bombing pitch bend, and into the hypnotic rhythm that carries us through the tune, providing the canvas upon which Lisa commands her fleet of analog synths to do her bidding.

Be sure to watch Lisa performing this track on the Moog YouTube channel, it is always so fun to see Lisa in action, and appreciate the passion she brings to this performance:

youtu.be/nIRQbIckYPo


Mystery Rituals – Lisa evokes a fugue-like tapestry around a pulsating, almost tribal rhythm, punctuated with powerful bass sounds, which do more to enhance the drama of the piece than to function as typical bass lines. Think power chords born from the mind of a dreaming android.

youtu.be/Q08itrD17TM

Adjacent Omens – An entertaining and adventurous piece, a climactic, epic, orchestral composition, book-ended by ambient, atonal sonic explorations. One of Lisa’s most daring pieces. I look forward to letting this one sink in more over time – there is a story being told here.

Hero, Hero – Clocking in at an epic 22:12, this is the kind of work that inventors of the genre (Wendy Carlos, Jean Michel Jarre, Tomita) would have been proud to call their own. An absolutely jaw-dropping composition of such magnitude and depth, this is the kind of piece that will make you want to turn off your phone, light some candles, put on your headphones, and let each and every brush stroke in this sonic canvas make your acquaintance over repeated listens.

The album is a daring mix of accessible, instantly relatable synth music, as well as some daring ambient, atonal and orchestral feats of sonic wizardry. What sets Lisa apart from many of her peers, in my opinion, is that she is truly a keyboardist as well as a synthesist. As such, she commands the feelings evoked by her music, the machines at her disposal are at her beck and call, and do not get in the way of the emotional weight of the music.

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Lisa Bella Donna is an internationally acclaimed composer, recording artist, modular synthesist & clinician.

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