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Mycelial Echo Amanda Farah , April 12th, 2021 07:43 A work for choreographer Gwendolyn Gussman and an opera about trees provided the starting points for this collaboration between Lisel and Booker Stardrum. But it s on headphones that the music really comes alive for Amanda Farah Mycelial Echo, the long-distance collaboration between Lisel and Booker Stardrum, is above all a feat of production. Though both have carved out their own corners in experimental music Lisel (the solo project name of Eliza Bagg) as a classically trained avant garde singer-producer and Stardrum as an electronic musician and producer their pairing has pushed each individual’s work beyond predictable progressions, beats, or vocal hooks. ....
The latest in a steady rollout of projects from Eliza Bagg under the name Lisel, Mycelial Echo finds the musician blending her ethereal soprano in an immaculate liaison with experimental percussionist and composer Booker Stardrum. Shifting from Bagg’s self-produced, full-length debut, Angels on the Slope, this newest project shifts her hyperpop-leaning palette to a place that is not at all surprising, considering her past collaborations with avant-garde titans such as John Zorn. Nonetheless, it is a welcome relocation of focus. Compared to Bagg’s post-internet, frenetic electronica EP, Specters, which featured a consortium of EDM and bubblegum sonics, Mycelial ....