Lisa Conway

Lisa Conway-Bühler, also known as LCON, is a Canadian musician, vocalist, composer and producer. She has performed as part of The Owle Bird, Chrome and the Ice Queen, and is the former singer and lyricist of Toronto-based Del Bel.

Early life and education Conway grew up in northern British Columbia where she started playing music as a child. She began playing the violin at the age of four and learned to play the guitar before developing an interest in songwriting. Her father worked as an elementary school music teacher and at the age of 13 she used his recording equipment to record and produced an album for her high school band.

Influenced by Canadian composer Oliver Schroer while attending camp as a teenager, she later moved to Ontario to attend York University in Toronto, where Schroer had studied. She completed a residency with the Canadian Film Center in 2016. Toronto Star reviewer Ben Rayner called the band's release Oneiric "one of the most accomplished albums, Canadian or otherwise, released in 2011."

During the mid-2010s Conway co-owned and operated Wildlife Sanctuary Sound, a recording and production studio in Grey County, with musician and producer Andrew Collins. They met as music students at York University.

L CON's 2016 release Moon Milk was based on Italo Calvino's 1965 science fiction short-story collection Cosmicomics. Each of the album's songs is inspired by and named after one of the stories in the collection. They were written during a three week residency in Sackville, New Brunswick, during the summer of 2013. Conway's third album as L CON, Insecurities in Being, was released on May 25, 2018. Writing for Now, reviewer Mark Streeter noted the refinement Conway brought to her work, explaining that the release was "recorded like a rock record but treated and mixed with pop sensibilities [...] full of intricate arrangements and careful playing".

The Isolator was released in 2023 on Idée Fixe Records. Featuring contributions by Cedric Noel, Karen Ng and Isla Craig, writing for the album began during the COVID-19 pandemic at Conway's studio in Guelph, Ontario.

Discography L CON The Isolator (2023) Insecurities in Being (2018) Moon Milk (2016) The Ballads Reimagined (2013) The Ballad Project (2012)

Del Bel III (2017) Del Bel (2015) Oneiric (2011)

Chome and the Ice Queen Diane (2011)

Owle Bird The Abesence Of (2008)