The Process; Lyrically Inclined with Lisa and Lenny (A Songwriter's Odyssey)

Y-VES album release date August 11, 2025 Album notes from Lenny:  This album follows a pattern through all the seasons starting at the end of winter with Beautiful Day   and ending in Winter Solstice .  It goes through the seasons of a life as well as despair in Down that Long Road and From Scratch not thinking you are good enough to complete the masterpiece you know you can do and Lifeline  where...

We are back baby!  After a hiatus to celebrate weddings a put on a musical, Lenny and Lisa are back with a new episode.  We share our most vulnerable worktapes- new songs we roughly recorded before production. We also delve into imposter syndrome and being an artist.   Songs featured: You're The Fool/ Freedom Is Freedom Is Freedom

On this last episode of 2024, we discuss 2 songs from a future album called Sinners And Saints.  Sabateur and String Me Along.  We also "harp" on the intricate playing of the harmonica and the wisdom of getting older. Happy new year to all of our friends and fans.  See you in 2025!

In this episode, we discuss our father and being a father and the struggle of balancing working and family.  We listen to 2 songs from our unreleased album Sinners and Saints, called Tapped Out and The Sins of the Father.

In anticipation of Halloween we share two songs from our unreleased album Sinners and Saints that have a scary element. Under The Crescent Moon is about a female werewolf, and Universal Key is about Dementia. Hope you enjoy our fun conversation and banter.

The Process is back for season 4!  In this episode we talk about two new songs from an unreleased album we are currently working on called Sinners and Saints.   We reveal our song that took and unexpected political turn called Dr. Destruction and our spaghetti western story called Justice.  As usual we have fun banter and fond memories of movies we have seen and songs we know. Join us!

In this season finale we are diving into the collaborative project between our sister Yochi Yakir Avin the visual artist and Lisa the musician. For more info on this project go to https://www.artscalendar.com/event/painting-life-in-pictures/?hub=1 https://www.yochiyakiravin.com/ https://lisayves.com/ Sign up for Yochi's newsletter or follow her on socials @yochiyakiravin Painting Life In Pict...

In this episode we are focusing in on having Good Times and finding our Happy Place.  These 2 songs appear on Lisa's 2024 release S.U.P.A. Natural. All music is available on streaming platforms.

We feature two songs that are advice driven.  Mama Told Me from the album S.U.P.A. Natural tells the moms out there the importance of telling your kids that they are good.  Building Blocks from the album Horrors Like These is a cautionary tale about doing the right thing and having integrity. All songs are available on all platforms.

In this episode we revisit two more songs from Horrors Like These.  Cyndi and Leisure Suit.  These are songs that we were influenced from outside artistic influences. All songs are available on all streaming platforms.

In this episode we feature 3 songs from the album SUPA Natural that we re-released this year after the 2020 release called Nineteenseventyfive. Songs featured are SUPA Natural (I'm A Woman), Turntables and Vinyl (produced by Crit Harmon) and Bonus track Side Hustle. Enjoy the vibes and our fun conversation about it.  We are our biggest fans :) Also stream our new album Lisa Yves Heroes and Vi...

On this episode we revisit our 2017 album Rayne with 2 more songs, Long Pauses and Mythical Man.  Listen to it loudly!

Today we have an great conversation with the artist known as Evoke.  We talk all things tunes, process, mental health, New York City and we get to hear 2 fantastic original songs by Evoke.  Adaptation and In Vogue. Alden Groves (they/them), aka EVOKE, is a non-binary singer, rapper, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Queens, NY. EVOKE's sound has evolved exponentially over the past...

On this episode, we revisit and album we released in 2018 called Horrors Like These.  The 2 songs we feature are The Kids Are Gone (about gun violence and loss) and Canoe (about losing a parent).   We also open the episode with part of the title song Horrors Like These. Listen to Horrors Like These on all platforms. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/horrors-like-these/1440601907 Spotif...

On this episode we feature 2 songs from our 2017 album entitled RAYNE.  Produced by Crit Harmon, the album is a concept album created by Lisa and Lenny about a lost young girl who sings and tries to find her way in the world.  The songs we feature  on this episode are Baby Bird and Stained Glass.  It's fun to revisit these songs and talk about how we created them. Rayne is available to hear o...

Welcome to season 3 episode 1.  We are back and ready to chat some more about our songs.  Today's episode is about 2 new songs we wrote.  Mixtape and Beautiful Day.  we break down some memories from our childhood in Mixtape and Beautiful Day is about a recent memory that Lenny encountered in North Carolina.

On this episode we feature 2 songs that are a little more complex musically.  Lifeline and Winter Solstice.   Lifeline is still in the pop vein but Winter Solstice is more like a theatrical song with complex melodies, harmonies and poetic lyrics filled with winter imagery. Plus a little teaser for one of our new songs called Mixtape. Stay tuned for more great content to come in Season 3.

Sorry For Your Loss and Thirsty And Wet are songs about the process of healing and they will also make you think. We discuss the creative process behind these 2 original songs.

We had an awesome chat with Logan Tabor about his life and band alltheprettythings. Wilmington, North Carolina-based alltheprettythings has combined musicians from bands you might know to make music you would not expect. The multitude of styles and influences that go into these songs will change the way you look at rock music. Anthemic tracks dominate their body of work. “Teenage Lines” soaring so...

In this episode we talk about two songs that we really love.  Down That long Road and Damn Right.  Both songs start with the letter D and we happen to really like them a lot.

When we talk about today's guest, Mia Moravis, we might as well say, "Just find her on social media". We like to say she has her own quirky version of an EGOT ~ she's a three-time Emmy® nominee, a Tony Award® nominee, worked on several GRAMMY®-nominated and -winning recordings, and she's Producer with an Oscar® nominee on Sweet Harmony: The Manhattan Transfer Story — and s...

On Today's episode we talk about 2 songs that we love.  The Great Piano In The Sky written about  the late great musician, Mike Renzi, and Y-VES which Lenny wrote loosely about Lisa and her inspirational ways.  These are songs written about people who make their mark on the world with their creative processes. Special thanks again to Jack Rosen for lending us his guitar skills on these songs....

On this episode we dive deep into the world of Mel Fine, singer, artist, songwriter, producer.  You will be delighted to hear about Mel's experiences as a songwriter, and performer. From Berklee College of Music to Mel Fine's Rainbow Room and even American Idol you don't want to miss this fun and interesting episode.  I have known Mel for 15 years as their vocal coach, mentor and ov...

On this episode we have a special visitor. Someone we talk about all the time finally popped to discuss songs and music. Plus a new song called Give Your Love Away written by our special visitor. I loved the song so much that I asked if I could record a version of it.

This week we are together in Florida.  We decided to record a song from scratch using a guitar and lil' keyboard, usb microphone and logic pro on my laptop.  Listen to the awesome collaboration that happens when we get into a state of flow and lose track of time.