{"title":"Lisel","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"patterns-for-auto-tuned-voices-and-delay","title":"Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliza Bagg leads a complex musical life: working as a classical opera singer, she has soloed with the New York Philharmonic, performed in Meredith Monk’s opera at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and toured Europe with the legendary John Zorn. While making her own music under the guise of art-pop solo act Lisel, she’s also collaborated as a vocalist with some of the most renowned experimental artists, including Ben Frost, Julianna Barwick, Daniel Wohl, and many others, all while playing indie rock venues and lovably dingy basements. One day, it’s Lincoln Center or The Kitchen, the next it’s an outdoor LA ambient series. She was always torn between her two worlds, and it wasn’t until she began work on \u003ci\u003ePatterns For Auto-tuned Voices And Delay\u003c\/i\u003e that she discovered a way to merge them together. Patterns comes out of Bagg’s experience as a vocalist singing Renaissance and Baroque music along with the work of modern-day minimalists like Steve Reich and Philip Glass. “I developed a vocal processing system that allowed me to change the idea of what my instrument is,” Bagg says of the album’s genesis, a system that combines her virtuosic singing with autotune and delay effects to create a melding of human and machine. Sure, she’ll admit it. “I’m a sci-fi nerd,” she says, with a laugh. “I’m a Blade Runner and Battlestar person. I love things that explore how society interacts with machines.” While making Patterns, she dove first into Renaissance polyphony and chant. The music of Hildegard von Bingen, Thomas Tallis, and Carlo Gesualdo is a familiar world to her. Starting with Renaissance and Medieval singing styles and idioms, she added processing and electronic world-building to bring out new, expressive qualities of those styles. From there, she improvised in these styles, fed the performances into Ableton, and incorporated modern day hyperpop (like SOPHIE) and ambient electric sounds and aesthetics. From Philip Glass to Charli XCX, Carl Stone to Grimes, Patterns makes radical connections. Yet, it was important for Bagg to maintain the spiritual origins of these vocal techniques. Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices And Delay stands within those traditions, using voices to transcend the cerebral and overwhelm the listener, all while evoking a unique set of references that span five hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing!","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50460689531211,"sku":"2009320","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Patterns_For_Auto-tuned_Voices_and_Delay_84529d48_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727236715"},{"product_id":"angels-on-the-slope-3","title":"Angels On The Slope","description":"\u003cp\u003eI always find myself seeking out art that's totally immersive, says Eliza Bagg, the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who records as Lisel. \"Things that transport you to a place where our everyday, familiar thoughts about the world don't quite fit exactly.\" With her self-produced album Angels on the Slope, Bagg has done exactly this. Each song is grounded in specific, strange vocal sounds, and the resulting album forms a diverse, otherwordly landscape where one wanders between the gauzy and ethereal and distorted, beat-driven pop.Bagg has spent the last few years developing a prolific career as a classical singer, and she credits her experiences performing the music of Bach and Renaissance composers as crucial to developing her pure, ethereal vocal style. She currently spends her time singing new, experimental classical music, from avant-garde operas by Meredith Monk with the LA Philharmonic, to the work of John Zorn and Caroline Shaw, as well as working with indie and electronic acts like Helado Negro and Julianna Barwick. She has also collaborated as one half of the band Pavo Pavo for the last three years.  Lisel grew from Bagg's desire to turn inwards as a way to get in touch with her own sense of authenticity. \"I had found space in the classical world that made sense for me,\" says Bagg, \"but I realized I needed to make something that was truly mine, that sprung from my own voice. It suddenly became an urgent priority.\" This led to a year-long writing and recording process, with Bagg waking up every morning to spend time alone with just a microphone and her computer. \"My main instrument is my voice, not a keyboard or a guitar, so I wanted it to be the genesis of every song,\" she says. Bagg meticulously constructed each one, beginning with samples of her voice as the foundation, either by singing a note in a particular style or by manipulating them through the recording software Ableton, in order to create a vocal color that would be the defining feature of the song.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50478250656075,"sku":"2017401","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50478251540811,"sku":"2017415","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_0ea67ba6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727481927"},{"product_id":"the-vanishing-point","title":"The Vanishing Point","description":"\u003cp\u003eFables of the future fuel the present. Lisel (Eliza Bagg) draws from this tradition on The Vanishing Point, a daring musical odyssey of altered singing, experimental pop, broken melodies, and striking electronics. A culmination of her continual dissemblance of genre, Lisel’s new album is an epic composed of allegorical tales, forming a dystopian storybook of life in the shadow of impending catastrophe. It’s a high-concept work of contemporary pop sounds, hyperpop motifs and tropes. Every song reflects the shared psycho-emotional experience of moving towards unsettling futures and looking beyond these outcomes, to the point where the horizons vanish. Evolving the sonic toolkit she employed on Patterns For Autotuned Voices And Delay (2023), Lisel transforms pop into a canvas for operatic storytelling. Along with making her own work, Bagg is a classical singer working in baroque and contemporary experimental opera, and with her project Lisel, she seeks to develop new, expressive qualities out of ancient vocal techniques from the Baroque and Renaissance periods. Her opera experience has infused her with a desire for a big, cinematic sound and holistic world-building, creating a “total artwork,” and she fits that medium into the form of a solo project. From haunting whispers to soaring melodies, she reaches back towards ancient musical traditions while incorporating futuristic sounds in order to imagine how a possible future might look back at contemporary existence. Dystopic stories melt into pop songs, hammered to ruin. Both through sonics and lyrics, the album recounts urgent narratives as ancient mythological fables, chronicling in operatic density the deepening awareness of the world’s looming, inevitable vanishing point. Photographer Carla Rossi further builds Lisel’s world through a series of photographs that similarly draw on Renaissance and Medieval painting, while placing them aesthetically in a digital realm. In these dramatic, hyper-stylized photos, Lisel takes up classical poses and yields iconographic symbols, further exploring the dissonance in her work as these manufactured “paintings” recall storytelling of the past while depicting images from an imagined future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing!","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50518494118219,"sku":"2226303","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_-_2024-10-03T123211.889_898e026f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727971274"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/lisel.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}