Like a pilot cruising at high altitudes, Lisa Jane Lipkin combines focus and trust on her new album “Flying on Instruments,” pushing the boundaries of her independent singer-songwriter career to new heights. Recorded with some of NYC’s top musicians and co-produced with acclaimed composer Richard Martinez, Lipkin expresses a new confidence in herself as an artist through songs that explore life’s turbulent as well as calm skies with equal deft and grace. “Flying on Instruments” reveals Lipkin’s broad range of musical influences with a Joni Mitchell meets Kate Bush kind of diversity and versatility. She is equally comfortable declaring emotional war in the upbeat opener "I Do Now" as she is tenderly caressing in the ballad “To Begin Again with You.” Lipkin can at once be optimistic and cheerleading in the bluesy rock-rally "Move On," and then turn keenly introspective and deeply compassionate in the penetrating ballad "Change upon Change." While many of her songs center on love and its various gains and losses, Lipkin also aims to raise social consciousness in the passionate appeal “Does Anybody Hear?” Inspired by Kerry Kennedy’s book, “Speak Truth to Power,” the song was written for the New Hampshire premiere of “Voices from beyond the Dark,” Ariel Dorfman’s drama prompted by the work of Kennedy’s Human Rights Organization. Lipkin co-produced “Flying on Instruments” with producer/composer/musician Richard Martinez at Lightbody Music, in Westchester County, NY. She credits