“Night And Day” Lisel

Eliza Bagg AKA: Lisel is a true multi-artist. The singer/producer/instrumentalist has released a double-single, a collaboration with Jarvis Taveniere of Woods and Purple Mountains. With the single, she has released a video for “Night And Day.” The double-single is available via Luminelle Recordings.

The video that embraces the limited resources and occasionally ensuing absurdity of life in quarantine. The video was directed and edited by Bagg while her boyfriend filmed it on his iPhone 11 at his bagel shop. Lisel explains, “I decided to lean into the makeshift, DIY nature of how we’re all making art during this time and to embrace the “behind the scenes show-within-a-show” vibe, landing somewhere between the glossy hifi cooking show the Lisel character wants it to be, and the shoddy, slightly perverse, eccentric reality of where we are.”

From Lisel:

“I’ve felt liberated during quarantine by the fact that our hands are being forced by our lack of normal access to resources of all kinds, liberated by the idea that things have to look or sound a certain way in order to be good,” Lisel explains further. “I like that the video communicates that it knows what it is, it understands its low budget reality. Sometimes you see the clip lights or the way the cloth hangs on the stands, and it fits with the coquettish vibe of the video — which is to say: I understand I’m manufacturing my reality and I choose to live in it anyway.”

“Despite opposite musical backgrounds and what felt like divergent musical tastes and sensibilities, the desire to collaborate came out of an unlikely and deep friendship that formed as newly acquainted roommates living in Los Angeles,” Lisel explains of her collaboration with Taveniere. The two entered their own respective isolations earlier this year, but continued collaborating. “Despite the distance, it was an involved, intimate, and radically honest way to bring together our aesthetic languages into these two songs.” Taveniere is also responsible for the cover artwork, a photograph of Bagg taken over a year ago in Griffith Park.

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