Hit The Road - Instrumental

Many close friends are having babies. A super close and old friend from childhood just had a beautiful baby girl and I got thinking about all the new life coming into this wonderous world with so much joy and sadness and felling ahead. I "wrote" this simple, little piano sketch in honor of her and the others on their way. Welcome to our world.

Welcome To Our World

Audio Demo Reel - voiceovers and singing

This is a little improvised piano piece to welcome one of my best friend's baby into the world.

Lullabye For Ethan

New Single by Kalen. Written and produced by Kalen and Abe Seiferth. Lyrics by Kalen. Recorded and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Spacebar Studio NYC.

Love Enough

New song written by Noel Cohen & Kalen Lister 

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HOWLIN'

Resistance is Pointless, You’ll call me every day 
Wake in the morning, need to see my face
Come sun set, you’ll be crawling to my place 

Don’t thank me now, you can thank me later
All the other girls were simply party favors 
I’ll be a the one, you love to savor 

Howlin’ at the moon you’ll cry for me
Howlin’ like the wolf you need to feed 

I had you at hello, all I did was smile 
I was in control and made you a while 
Trying to track me down, began to drive you wild

Howlin’ at the moon you’ll cry for me
Howlin’ like the wolf you need to feed 
You’ll be Howlin’ 
You’ll be Howlin’ 

Resistance is Pointless,  you’ll need me either way

Howlin’ at the moon you’ll cry for me
Howlin’ like the wolf you need to feed 
Howlin’ at the moon you’ll cry for me
Howlin’ like the wolf you need to feed 
You’ll be Howlin’ 
You’ll be Howlin’ 

(You wanna taste, come get it
Need my embrace, come get it
Wanna be my lover
Come chase me under cover) 


Howlin'

This song was written with Noel Cohen. 

I need someone who can walk with me through the rain
Someone to stand by me when the good times turn to pain 
There are the ones who turn and run when the sky goes grey
I need someone who can walk with me through the rain
 
Sometimes I feel like an island alone in the sea
Sometimes I feel like a desert with no oasis in me
And life is the hardest game that we’ll ever have to play
I need someone who can walk with me through the rain
 
Your smile lights me up and reignites 
All of the dreams and the hopes that I thought had died 
I want so much to trust you and every word you say 
I need someone who can walk with me through the rain 
 
Sometimes I feel I could vanish without a trace
That's why I need the kindness I see on that smiling face 
And love is the biggest bet, baby, that we’ll ever have to place
 
I need someone who can walk with me through the rain 
Someone to stand by me when the good times turn to pain 
There are the ones who turn and run when the sky goes grey
I need someone who can walk with me through the rain

Through The Rain

I wrote this track with Noel Cohen. 

I’ve been hiding from you
Hiding from myself too
There’s beauty in letting go
A Beauty Id like to  know 

Let me Pour myself Into the arc of you 
Let me pour myself Into the arc of you 
Wanna turn to waves And wash over you 
Let me Pour myself Into the arc of you 

I’ve been pushing you away 
met by nothing but regret in my mistake
Beneath this fear lays my desire
To turn from you’d make me a liar

Let me Pour myself Into the arc of you 
Let me pour myself Into the arc of you 
Wanna turn to waves And wash over you 
Let me Pour myself Into the arc of you

Pour

Music & Words by Kalen 
Produced & Mixed by Yo'av Shemesh
Mastered by Alex de Turk at The Bunker Studio

Vox & Piano - Kalen
Synth Bass, Drum Programming & BVs - Yo'av Shemesh
Guitar - Gavi Grodsky


SEDUCER

We're not quite lovers and we're not quite friends.
Where's the river stop and the ocean begin?
We're pulled to the waters where we cannot swim
Over and over and under again

Take me back to that bench where you found me
You're a covert operator 
For you there's now never later
Take me back to that time that you tamed me 
You’re a death-to-woman-man
And you don’t understand….
Seducer

I’m not sorry for the push and pull
At times it’s the only way I feel that thrill
We’re both been burdened by that dissatisfied vein
That keeps us searching over and under again
 
You don’t know yourself
Words come tumbling from your mouth
To fill the want you have right now
But their echoes you just disavow

Seducer

Words & Music by Kalen
Produced & Mixed by Yo'av Shemesh
Mastered by Alex de Turk at The Bunker Studio

Voice & Piano - Kalen
Drum programming & synth - Yo'av Shemesh
Kit - Kassa Overall
Bass - Greywolf
Sax - Johnny Butler


DISAPPEAR

I guess you got me good, I said
White flag waving 
Flakes flying fall
Melt into lashes
Soldiers guarding walls 
Around what sees 
Before the moat turns red
I’ll blink a breath that wakes the wind, I said, 

Disappear 
I disappear 

Bare your teeth
Bare your underbelly
Tangled sheets 
Green tea and whiskey, baby
til the night would 
disappear

I’m not sure where we went wrong, he says
palms turn towards the sky 
I’ll have to search inside, he says
Then looks outward and sighs
Guess I was built to spill, he thinks 
He’s apologized
Till his fingers find a way
Back inside my mouth to stay…and… 

Disappear 
 You disappear 

Bare your teeth
Bare your underbelly
Tangled sheets 
Roll up a one-y for me
watch the smoke 
disappear

Disappear 
We disappear 

Bare your teeth
Bare your underbelly 
keep it brief 
time to retreat, baby?

Bare your teeth
Bare your underbelly 
Quiet thief 
What are you hiding from me?

Bare your teeth
Bare your underbelly 
Far beneath 
It disappears

Hide beneath 
lay it bare for me....
         And disappear

Disappear

Words & Music by Kalen
Produced by Izzy Gliksberg
Mixed by Yo'av Shemesh
Mastered by Alex de Turk at The Bunker Studio

Piano & Vocals - Kalen 
Drum Programming, Synths, Guitar, BV - Izzy Gliksberg
Bass & BV - Greywolf
Pandero - Sergio Krakowski
BV - Yo'av Shemesh

WEAK

Step back and let me be
Here I’m tempted to concede
I’ve asked you nicely to retreat 
Don’t force me to be mean

Your love it makes me weak
Your love it makes me weak

I’ve tricked myself into a trap
One where I’m sure you’re headed back 
I’m suspended in between the march of time and clinging dreams
But you’re still grasping for me / but I can hear you calling me

Giving up on you 
feels like giving up on love
And if I’m giving up on love 
Not sure what’s left for me, left for me

Your love it makes me weak
(If I’m the land and you’re the sea
You shift your shape, it changes me)
Your love it makes me weak
You know, ya you know
Your love it makes me weak
Your love it makes me weak

Weak

Kalen Lister is a songwriter, singer, keyboard player, and lyricist based in NYC, known for her dynamic live performances. Since leading the moody rock band, Kalen & The Sky Thieves (Ropeadope Records), she is primarily performing solo supported by local talent. Her new electronic project, Death By Piano, has just released its first single and will release their first EP in Fall 2017. She performs across the country having played stages such as Brooklyn Bowl (NYC), DC9 (Washington, DC), Empire Ballroom (Portland, ME), and Hotel Café (LA). Kalen and her various projects have been compared to Hiatus Kaiyote, Portishead, Peter Gabriel, Karen O (The Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Fiona Apple, and Kate Bush. She has earned honorable mention for her lyrics in American Songwriter. Relax Mag says, "Kalen Lister is a singer songwriter with real character."
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