Music
Bells and Whistles
Listening to music through a smartphone speaker is like viewing a rainbow in the dark.
Who’s Lissa Free?
I used to think I had to separate my creative persona from my professional one. As a result, I created “Lissa Free” as my “nom du musicien’. Over time, I realized that my entrepreneurship bleeds into my art and vice versa. (See “What do you do, anyway?) Plus, the world got better at understanding amalgamous people like me. Still, the name sticks and thus you’ll still find my music performed as “Lissa Free.”
I sang before I talked, and played piano before I walked. Music is, no doubt, my first language and the one I am most fluent in even today. My head overflows with melody, whether in line at the grocery store or cleaning out my garage.
I started as a jazz saxophonist and studio player in my teens. I had the great privilege of once playing with Count Basie, Harry James, and Maynard Ferguson. As my interest in film grew, I gravitated to scoring, then ultimately songwriting and recording.
I enjoy exploring the intersection of analog and digital, as well as what we see on the surface vs what’s really happening inside.
Discography
Retrofusion
As my parents reached their twilight years, I began to reflect on my early childhood, the 1970s prime of their young adulthood. The result is Retrofusion, a concept record that asks the question, “What if artists of the 70s had the recording technology of today?” The tracks are musically inspired by 70s artists such as Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind, and Fire, which the project is lyrically inspired by my process of reckoning with their impending passing.
Delayed Gratification
For years, motherhood and entrepreneurship kept me out of the studio but it didn’t stop the barrage of music from swimming in my head. Delayed Gratification is a collection of recordings I’ve made while my boys were young and encapsulate the experiences of this transformative period of time when life both shifts and settles. In creating it, I enjoyed playing with the intersection of analog and digital instrumentations, often mixing an upright bass with programmed rhythms.
find my music on these networks
ACRCloud
Aerasonica Records
Amazon
Anghami
Apple Music
Boomplay
CD Baby
ClaroMusica
Deezer
Epitome Music Library
Google Play
Gracenote
iHeartRadio
Instagram/Facebook
iTunes
Jango Radio
Jaxsta
Joox
KKBox
Kuack Media
Last.fm
Luna
MediaNet
Mrc
MusicXRay
Musync
Napster
NetEase
Outbound Music
Pandora
Qobuz
Resso
ReverbNation
Saavn
Shazam
Song and Film
Soundcloud
Soundtrack by Twitch
Spotify
Suckfree Radio
Tencent
Tidal
TikTok
Triller
WOS Radio
Yandex Music
YouTube Music