On a cold November night in 2009, art dealer Brian Liss (rep: Harry Benson, Billy Dee
Williams, Ronnie Wood, JBall, Bob Gruen etc) held a charity event at his gallery which
featured singer/songwriter Pat Kelly (The Star Combo, SVO, PK & The Core) performing
for the invited guests. On this night, Brian shared a secret with his friend that he had
held his whole life – Liss wrote a series of poetry; a Lisseries, if you will. Liss asked
Kelly what he thought of his works and in moments, Kelly had taken the words to “Front
Row At Feist”, put them to music and performed what was to be the first of a series of
collaborations.
Weeks later, Liss and Kelly recorded 17 guitar and vocal tracks that became the
foundation of what was to be Lisseries – Volume 1: INTENTsely Distrurbed. Kelly & Liss
brought these tracks to producer/songwriter John Jamieson (Shania Twain, Peter Bloom
Band, PK & The Core) and in the following months Kelly and Jamieson wrote, rewrote
and recorded music for tracks voiced by Brian Liss, Kelly, actor Billy Dee Williams (Star
Wars, Lady Sings The Blues, Brian’s Song), legendary singer Robert Gordon (Fire), music
promoter Shaun Pilot, actor/speaker Tennessee Webb (Mark Twain In The 21st Century)
and voice over actress Cyndi Richards (daughter of Billie Mae Richards: voice of Rudolph).
The 17 track spoken music album features the visual art of Johnathan Ball (aka JBall)
and the tracks are as unique as a journey into the minds of us all.
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