Lisa Bella Donna - Starchild Warrior Cats - Moog Matriarch & Moog Grandmother

[@aftertheendtimes]

Beautiful performance 💚🕯️👍😍thanks Lisa, Love cheers 🖖🙏🕉️☯️

[@Raggo12345]

Thank you so much! This is wonderfully good! Wow!

[@1Cyberix]

Top notch escapism. Thank you.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Berk Storm ❤️

[@1Cyberix]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic Yes, well, it´s very enjoyable and it feels a lot like when listening, as a teenager, on stuff like Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Wendy (Walther) Carlos, Pink floyd etc, etc. I can listen to your music for hours and why are you not on NPR or KEXP i wonder, you briliant musician you. Nightfall is one of my favorites of your wast catalog, both visually and as a performance. I will check that out now, have a nice night, day, morning or what ever it is at your place, in Sweden it´s 10 minutes past 4 in the afternoon as i write this.. You genious. Thank you.

[@jarisroth]

Lisa, you’re music is absolutely remarkable. I just recently discovered you from a moog ad. Now I’m enjoying listening to all your work! Thank you.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

jaris roth thank you so much! ❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@RaymondCastile]

I've never owned a Moog synthesizer. I'm more into Yamaha, Roland and Sequential. But I really like what I'm hearing from the Matriarch demos. It might become my first Moog. I don't know why this one is appealing to me. Probably because of your demos! Note to synth companies: Get the right person to do the demos and you might just sell a few instruments. So many new synth demos are dreadfully dull and lacking in spirit and imagination. But yours are infused with a sense of joy and discovery.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Raymond Castile Thank you for the kind words. I love many different kinds of synthesizers, however this Matriarch has something crazy special about it. It’s certainly well worthy of considering. ❤️

[@geerhoar]

Pure genius. Lisa sold me on the Matriarch. If only I had the talent!

[@RaymondCastile]

Steve Gandy awesome! I probably won’t be buying another synth this year. Maybe the end of the year.

[@RaymondCastile]

Steve Gandy he has his good days and bad ones. He was doing better last week. This week he’s obviously not feeling well.

[@c.simonis123]

Completely agree on that one. The Moog Matriarch is less limitative than other Moogs in this price range due to its great modules and the semi modular and it is paraphonic.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Listened all the way through. When finished, hit repeat play. Did this twice more.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Thank you dear Alex!!!

[@kevinbatchelor9566]

Really loving the stereo image and your wildly creative passing phrases.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Thank you so much! I’m all about going deep into the stereo forest 🌲🌲🌲🌲

[@remoteviewer8524]

Oh, you are good. This is like back in the day when a mate appears carrying a new album, and says "you've got to hear this!". There is that wonderful moment of discovery, of hearing something fresh and new.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Remote Viewer This made my day. Thank you so much! I love that vibe so much!! Thanks for listening! ❤️

[@jontip]

This is shockingly good. Thank you!

[@thedarkestrainbow]

Oh my gawd gurl! #synthgoals. I don’t even know how I would begin to compose something like this. But this is where I wanna be. You’re such an inspiration, but musically and as a person! Thanks for putting yourself out there.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

SteeVtheRipper Thank you 🙏🏻 very kind words 💗

[@RoseHaze]

I giggled within 14 seconds. Those runs can only be from the one and only. Love the title too. 💙

[@deltatesseract594]

This sounds absolutely amazing, keep up the great work!

[@KortKramer]

Amazing. To my untrained ear I wouldn't have been able to tell but for your reply to another commenter. I'm loving your work!

[@paingenerator8338]

Thank you so much for this - love your music. Been looking into getting a Moog for a long time - watched your "Choosing a Moog" video on Reverb and am definitely making the purchase soon. I mostly do experimental/noise along the lines of Throbbing Gristle and Einstürzende Neubauten with some Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy influences thrown in. Having trouble deciding between the Mother-32, Grandmother and Matriarch.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

John Cross Thank you for the kind words and for listening. As for Moog, it’s just an honest and REAL instrument. All the clones in the world will still never be a a Moog. If you make music everyday, it’s worth the investment. ❤️

[@soundscapejourneys-wileymonroe]

Nice ;) Thoroughly enjoyed listening and very inspirational. It seems that cats want to relate to the sounds, as if they are waiting for something extraterrestrial to happen. I see this in our cat when I start playing and laying tracks. I haven't really heard enough of the grandma yet, I love the sound of the matriarch

[@daniws1972]

Thanks for share !! Amazing !! Come to Spain, want you in live session !!

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Would LOVE to come to Spain!!

[@thelaboratoryofspacerecord5239]

I'm glad I've come upon your work. Really great!

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

💗

[@moa643]

Wow this is really good, so much lush tone!! Love it

[@moa643]

Very Vangelis vibes from this.

[@payt01]

You seem to be having a lot of fun with the Matriarch! It sounds amazing.. just like the grandmother, but umm bigger and more and better!

[@eddievongrape2177]

I'm so inspired by your incredible, next-world sounds. With great love and appreciation, from Melbourne, Australia.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Eddie Von Grape Thank you! ❤️

[@Lainer1]

OMG! the cat pictures. So hilarious. Love your playing! Thanks for doing these demos. It's very inspiring. Wendy Carlos and Suzanne Ciani would be duly impressed.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@warrenfulpmusic]

The Thankful Diodes, (even those not in this, but the Moog demo), is by far my favorite sound you discovered. It’s so inspiring and intense! That tone is what inspires me to play the synth in the first place, especially analog.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Warren ❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@ArtFluids]

I love it! More more more! I want to hear some of the VCAs used for ring modulation.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

ArtFluids go to my bandcamp. Afternoon dreams is a new release featuring these cuts and others. The piece on there entitled “Adjacent Omens” opens with some of that VCA sizzling ring mod.

[@RoomAtTheTopStudio]

Great one Lisa. Love this demo. You show the capabilities of both synths in combination perfectly. You've sold me on getting both

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Luke Kage 💕🙏🏻💕

[@hayeye]

Brava!!! ..like always

[@guillaumemazurier3080]

This new Synth inspires you! Great sounds!

[@rwesreal]

You are absolutely amazing Miss Bella Donna!

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Real Royal Thank you sweetheart! 💗

[@GrootsieTheDog]

While others spend time meticulously programming & editing their synths, Lisa just starts tweaking knobs and making freaky cool 🎶🎶🎶.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Cosmo Spacemonkey 🙏🏻💗

[@seancraig5373]

Wow-just fabulous sound! Thanks SO much for posting this--it is truly incredible, and the music you are making here is incredibly inspiring! I have enjoyed your music SO much here online--exquisite! Around 6:20 on this you hear some nice pad sounds--are those from Matriarch also? Incredibly beautiful sound here....just fantastic. What would YOUR advice be for someone with a limited expense account: (1) Wait and buy only the Matriarch (and spend out your bank account), (2) Buy the Grandmother now (on sale), or (3) Try to buy both--because they are distinctive enough to warrant having both-but stagger the purchases as the bank account allows? Just curious here (as are others) on how different the 2 machines are, how different the sounds they can produce are, and whether the Matriarch can do all the Grandmother can and more. It's an agonizingly difficult choice (but I am so thankful MOOG has challenged us with it).....

[@larsenmb]

Bump

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Sean Craig maybe consider buying the Matriarch first and adding the Grandmother. They’re both so unique in many ways. The section that begins to unfold at 6:20 is a stereo spread of 8 Grandmother synthesizers played line by line. Thank you for your kind words! All the vids are on bandcamp if you want to hear higher quality lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/album/afternoon-dreams

[@Paul-ur5kc]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic "The section that begins to unfold at 6:20 is a stereo spread of 8 Grandmother synthesizers played line by line" Tomitaesq. Nice!

[@obiwan45459]

That is an awesome sound!! Great full sound at the beginning of the track!

[@roberti6433]

You have summoned Keith Emerson's vibe and skill. Yep, I just called you a synth goddess! So awesome.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Robert I Thank you Robert!!

[@raduvladcg4218]

Lisa you have quite the imagination.........Nice video to go along with your music.........

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

raduvlad CG thank you!

[@paulagomez6979]

Amazing!

[@paradiddle16]

Sounds awesome! Best demo so far by a light-year! If that doesn't sell moog synths then shoot me. hahaha

[@paradiddle16]

sorry, it's more than a demo. A real nice piece of music!

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

paradiddle16 Thank you 🙏🏻💗

[@beepot2764]

Matriarch and mother 😍 so funky.

[@kengruz669]

At that 6:20 area folks are talking about..firstly- 8 Mothers? Do you mean 8 distinct machines? At that point, the images on the screen start swelling, breathing as they fade into next shots, and I feel like I'm tripping. Mind you, I haven't tripped in decades...

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

ken gruz Sorry for the late reply. At 620 are just 8 tracks of line by line grandmothers for that polyphonic passage. I’m glad the video made you feel psychedelic without the drugs. ❤️ Thank you for listening!

[@MikeHunt90731]

Can t wait to finally own a physical Synth.

[@NicholasGreenwood]

That bass sound at the beginning is so freaking dirty and awesome. Yeah! Hey, I noticed that Moog put the fine tuning knob and the headphone level knob on the rear of the panel. I've experienced analog oscillator drift during live performance before and I think that putting the fine tuning knob in the rear is a weird and undesirable design choice. What do you think about this?

[@geerhoar]

Nicholas Greenwood would rather have fine tuning on front, yes. But I think your question was directed to Lisa. Ordered one of these, today, thanks to the inspiration Lisa provided.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

@@geerhoar It's true analog, so yes sometimes you will have to roll with the drifting of the tuning tides.I feel grateful to not have had much trouble with these live at both indoor and outdoor gigs. Compared to using my vintage stuff live. I don't mind where the master tune knob is. Truth is when I allow mine to properly warm up for 15 to 20 minutes, I never have to touch it. I realize live gigs don't always allow that. I mean before the Grandmothers came out, I had bought a pair of Roland Se02... (giggles and shakes head). I had not realized JUST HOW SMALL those things were. Trying to use those things live was a disaster. You'd switch a waveform and knock the entire synth out of tune. So, when I brought the GMA back from Moogfest last year I've never stoped playing it. SO many sessions and gigs with it. So reliable. The Matriarch is on the level, it's just a great expansion with new sound possibilities. The filter alone on it is enough to hook you when it's under your hands.

[@geerhoar]

Lisa Bella Donna thanks, Lisa. This is great to know. Thank you for being an inspiration. After my “impulse” purchase of the Matriarch, I realized I need WYSIWYG. It is just more fun for me. Unloading a bunch of gear, today. Frantically searching for boxes, manuals, power supplies, etc., to turn things in.

[@NicholasGreenwood]

Awesome. Thanks Lisa. I'll be looking forward to more videos and/or sound clips with you on this synth.

[@michaelmalodrums9674]

I’ve had the grandmother a couple of weeks but I’m thinking now to change and order this one , I’m not even a synth player I’m a drummer but I just can’t help it 😅 . Lisa , your work is very inspiring , being a child growing up in the 70s for me this is very reminiscent of the early moog modular and mini moog era , Keith Emerson sweeping sounds , arp runs that sound very close to what Todd rundgrend’s band utopia sounded like ex: initiation album or the utopia album . As far as hearing a difference between the two , only when your using the matriarch in paraphonic mode or some of the rich lowest notes you can tell it’s most probably the matriarch with all 4 ocillators stacked . Just an guess :-)

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Michael. Malo drums Thank you for the kind comments. I am also a drummer, I toured as a jazz drummer globally for nearly a decade. So much of how I play and approach synth figures and runs are very derivative from my studies as a percussionist. This piece is very much a clear example of that. Especially when most of what you hear is my hands working, not just sequencing. Or, I like to mirror the clock with my hands. One of my biggest inspirations when it comes to this is drummer Rayford Griffin of Jean-Luc Ponty’s group. He has a very special way of playing very sequential figures while adding a very humanly musical attenuation to them. Both the Grandmother and Matriarch are just awe inspiring synthesizers. ❤️

[@KortKramer]

What a journey!

[@PatternShift]

Soooo good. The transition at 6:00-7:00 or so is esp. divine.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Thank you!!

[@rhodesboy2010]

Wow - a lot of the other demos of the Matriarch sound dull and "samey", but this one was very vibrant! My interest in the Matriarch has been rejuvenated....

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

B C ❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@steveg219]

I have no idea which synth is which --- all I hear are riffs of awesomeness everywhere :)

[@LerLoons]

@3:23 entering a unknown dimension .

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

LerLoons 🌲🌲🌲🌲🔮🌲🌲🌲🌲

[@fredmickins]

Wow🤯🤘🏾✨

[@janling242]

great synthpower,nice !

[@ludwigkopp8130]

🤔 sounds great and.....great. both. 👍🤖🤚

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Ludwig Kopp Thank you!!

[@ghostsax]

beautiful, as per usual. 🖤

[@valdiskrebs566]

Hard to tell them apart... that’s a good thing. 🤔 The GM came in first??? The Matriarch when the stars show in the video?

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Valdis Krebs The first two themes are the Matriarch (actually audio uses in the Moog film). Then they mix then the last section is all Grandmother ❤️

[@jeffc1753]

Skills. Mad skills 😳

[@LesterH25]

Your music is 'alive' Lisa.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Many Minds Thank you ❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@tjontheroad]

Crazy good A+

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

tjontheroad Thank you ❤️🙏🏻

[@Da66RobRoy]

What a great use of the moog!

[@lordhare2012]

Nice !!

[@VincentBurkardt]

Just...... wow

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Vincent Burkardt Thank you ❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@Maerklin56]

Top

[@GMsRunTheVoodooDown]

Oh my God! This composition is truly amazing! I had to hear it again and again from how impressed I was. The bass/sequenced part that start at around 2:40 and which lasts until approximately at 6:30 is from GM or Matri? And that gorgeous bass sound around 6:34? (The doubled lead parts gave me goose bumps, i bet that it was played with the GM..)

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Rob Braxton Thank you!! The first section you asked about it the Matriarch. The 6:34 are 8 Grandmother synthesizers recorded line by line and then panned in a spread around the stereo field. I posted all these tracks on bandcamp if you want to hear higher quality lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/album/afternoon-dreams

[@GMsRunTheVoodooDown]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic Thank you so much for the detalied and quick answer and the bandcamp link! You're great

[@jeffc1753]

Can the Matriarch be made to be truly duophonic, as in, make the amp envelope a second filter envelope and then route two oscillators into one vcf/envelope/vca, and the other two oscillators into the other vcf/envelope/vca? As far as I can tell there is no kb release envelope that can be switched on like in the GM...

[@JustHackingAround]

Where can I find this in lossless format? Don't see it on your bandcamp..

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Just hacking Around Right here: 💗 lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/album/afternoon-dreams

[@JustHackingAround]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic That's so funny, I saw your reply just after buying that very album!

[@sergiyradonezhsky634]

idk how I got here, but me likey!

[@digitaldiezel5870]

70’s magic 😊

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Digital Diezel 🌈💗

[@raymond_lazer]

Oh la la ! So both powerful rich and ambient soundings ... Just love it ! When are you coming live to Denmark ? :)

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Raymond LAZER Thank you!! ❤️ I feel I would love 🇩🇰 Denmark !!! One of my absolute favorite groups are from there!! Huge inspirations!!

[@raymond_lazer]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic Come to Helsingør :) They organize electronic/underground music festival each year, near the sea and Kronborg castle ;) Laurie Anderson was here 3 years ago, so now its your turn . Which Danish group is it, may I ask ?

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Raymond LAZER Awww 🥰 Thank you! I will Absolutely investigate this and see what possibilities or resources I have. I’d absolutely be so inspired to perform there!! As for my favorite Danish musical group, they’re called MERCYFUL FATE. ❤️

[@raymond_lazer]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic Merci beaucoup ! :) Unless you already know them , French group from the 70s , totally underrated : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZmngH5jfrOSmbc

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Raymond LAZER THE MIGHTY MAGMA!!! 🔥🤘🏻🔥 DE FUTURA!!!!

[@Digiphex]

Phat sound.

[@MikeHunt90731]

and no I can t tell the difference and they both look alike anyways!

[@pvillez]

Well...no but it is obvious you are inspired and having fun. Vangelis, Spiral? Sounds great!

[@hansvermeer7164]

Exactly what i thought lol.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

pvillez Thank you! I haven’t heard “Spiral” in forever. However love Vangelis dearly. I just love getting in the Dimension with these instruments and riding the sky with them. Thank you for listening ❤️