Arcadia

Ramona Lisa is the current alias of Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek. Her new album Arcadia is Polachek’s first self-
produced solo record and the first release by Pannonica, part of the Bella Union family. Completely composed
in MIDI, it is a concept album of love songs that are nature allegories, and vice versa, which Polachek calls “Pastoral Electronic Music”.

The making of Arcadia was a year long process that began and ended in an empty
studio in Rome’s Villa Medici and while on tour with her band, Chairlift. The record was made entirely on a
laptop without instruments or external microphones – all vocals were sung directly into the computer, making
use of hotel closets, quiet airport gates, and spare dressing rooms. Although the album was created on a
laptop, the result is a lush and uncannily tangible world of warm textures, reminiscent of analog tape
processes rather than a hard drive. Virtual oboes and organs interweave with synthetic insects and quivering
sine waves, animated by Polachek’s vocal at it’s most delirious and intimate yet.