Destinations, the forthcoming album by multi-instrumentalist, sonic sorceress Lisa Bella Donna is a deep-diving, yet rhythmically-inviting album of classic electronic music. Each of the four compositions on the album compliment the destination of the next. The album sees release on October 1, and features “Mystery Rituals, featured earlier this year in Bella Donna’s Moog Music video.
Performed entirely on Moog and ARP synthesizers, and aided along the journey by a host of Earthquaker Devices, Destinations picks up where Bella Donna’s previous 2019 releases, Circulus and Afternoon Dreams, left off.
Rich with polyphonic soundscapes and a garden wall of sequencers, soaring melodies and burning solos add excitement and contrast all throughout. Lisa’s passion and attention to detail just continues to flourish and expand the boundaries of modern synthesizer music. The evidence is clear all throughout this recording.
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World renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, modular synthesist, and clinician Lisa Bella Donna is demolishing the status quo. Her Circulus, Afternoon Dreams, Convergence and The World She Wanted albums were released in quick succession earlier this year
Bella Donna was featured in the Moog rollout of the Martriarch keyboard, was shouted out in Rolling Stone, performed at Monolith on the Mesa with her former band EYE as well as solo, did a tour of Japan in May supporting legendary metal/punk outliers Boris, and performed and taught at the Brooklyn Synth and Pedal Expo June 8 and 9.
Bella Donna has spent decades as a session musician and developing extensive techniques with musique concreté, modular synthesis, analog and digital recording techniques, drumming and percussion, micro-tonal music, orchestration and film composition. She has also toured all throughout the U.S., Japan and Europe as a clinician, drummer and keyboardist. Further, she’s been commissioned for numerous multichannel audio art installations in the U.S. and Europe.
On August 2, the Lisa Bella Donna Quartet performed at Blu Jazz+ in celebration of EarthQuaker Day 2019. August 13-15 she performed in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina as part of Moogmentum, alonside synthesizer legends Herb Deutsch, Patrick Moraz, and Larry Fast/Synergy.
Lisa on Mike Watt’s show: https://www.twfps.com/past-episodes/on-air-guest-lisa-bella-donna-from-ohio?fbclid=IwAR2bzNLBPy3odQryr728eNumU9IqHJCPUPbX0skZHn33yeeoNHt4XQ3gLUU
Lisa in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/depeche-mode-martin-gore-moogfest-2019-826867/?fbclid=IwAR0Dwji07rnu2zvmM-idQ2mo1aX8YHV0sXd4ebTArxWA_slsfXXg_ruL0UQ