Lisel – “Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay” (Released 10th March 2023)

Description

//Ba Ba Bing!//

£28.99 – 1xLP

Using voices to transcend the cerebral and overwhelm the listener, all while evoking a unique set of references that span five hundred years.

While making Patterns, Lisel 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.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro: liturgy
2. One at a time
3. Stalactite
4. Wingspan
5. Immature
6. Blades of grass
7. Plainsong
8. Polyphony for voices
9. At the fair
10. Rising mist
11. Whirlpool