{"id":17272,"date":"2021-03-17T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:18:32","slug":"lisel-and-booker-stardrum-team-up-for-debut-collaborative-album-mycelial-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=17272","title":{"rendered":"Lisel and Booker Stardrum team up for debut collaborative album Mycelial Echo<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Lisel by Gregory Wikstrom \/ Booker Stardrum by Brian Guido<\/p><\/div>\n

Drumming wizard, improviser and composer Booker Stardrum<\/a> and singer, producer, and experimental artist Eliza Bagg aka<\/span> Lisel\u2060<\/a> have joined forces for a debut album entitled Mycelial Echo<\/em>. Crafted remotely over a six week period, the album is closely tied to other artistic projects. Half of the music was written for an opera about trees\u2060 set to be presented in a virtual reality installation this year and the other half was composed for The Vanishing Point<\/em>, a 25-minute music and dance piece commissioned by National Sawdust. The piece was made with dancer\/choreographer Gwendolyn Gussman and conceived as video art.<\/p>\n

The press release elaborates on Bagg and Stardrum’s collaboration:<\/p>\n

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“Lisel’s manipulated vocal samples, processed vocal improvisations, and patterns built from extended techniques are combined with Stardrum’s complex sequences, organic percussion, and synths to create a portrayal of our relationship to the natural world that is both tactile, sensorial, and seen from a distance.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Preceding Mycelial Echo<\/em>‘s release on April 9th through Luminelle Recordings<\/a>, the pair shared two riveting and celestial tracks,\u00a0 ‘In The Dome’ and ‘I Am Not Ready To Go’.\u00a0 ‘In The Dome’ comes paired a video directed by Bagg herself and featured Gwendolyn Gussman.<\/p>\n