Lisa Bella Donna

Lisa Bella Donna is an American musician and composer known for her use of modular synthesizers.

Career

Bella Donna released her first solo work in 1994. In 2019, she released 10 full-length albums, which she has described as an "instant composition" approach to reflect the nature of the live performances. In 2019, she also released a four-way split with Boris, Relaxer, and Crypt City, with a brief tour in Japan. By mid-2021, she had released 25 albums. According to Dave Segal of The Stranger, "her Bandcamp is full of outstanding releases", referring to her collection of works released on Bandcamp, and her "arsenal includes some of the most glorious-sounding instruments in the electronic-music spectrum: ARP 2600, ARP String Ensemble, Moog One, and Moog Modular System."
Bella Donna is one of the featured artists interviewed for the 2020 book PATCH & TWEAK with Moog by Kim Bjørn. She is a Moog Music representative, was featured in a 2019 promotional video for the Matriarch synthesizer, and has demonstrated Moog instruments in a 2019 video for Reverb.
Her home recording studio, Appalachian Recording, is based in the Appalachians.

Discography

Snowy Dreamscapes
Tell Me What You Feel
Wilderness
The Changing World
Skylines
The Haunting Of October Dreams
Omnipresence
Next Time Around
Sounddrones Vol I & II
Moments of a Journey
Two Nights in February
Endless Roads
Live
Circulus
Convergence
Destinations
Afternoon Dreams
Tramontane
Night Shift
Take My Hand, Come with Me
Changin' Times
ESP
Night Flight
Cheyenne Crossing
Orchards Of Churchyard Departures
December's Pentacle
Tintinnabulation
Sonata For Loudspeakers
Pilgrimage
Electronic Studies
Odyssey
Afterimages
The World She Wanted
Turning Point
Ascension
Mourning Light
October Voyages
Appalachian Wilderness
Moogmentum
Revel In Time
American Watercolors
Electronic Voyages
Photophobia
Subsequent Dreams
Travelogue
Hypnosis
Muskingum Mysteries
Astral Mornings
Departures
Intonation
Objects

Film

The Pedal Movie, as self