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UPDATE SUMMER 2008: Karyn is in production on her next album, Even Though The Sky Was Falling. She is working with the lovely and talented producer, Don Kerr, and they expect to release the record late 2008/early 2009.

Karyn's first public appearance was in a singing contest while on vacation with her family in Guadeloupe. Nine years old and with microphone in hand, she chirped out an acappella version of "Hey Little Bird" (Sandy Oppeheim): 'hey little bird sitting in a tree. Let's have lunch together you and me--how about pizza?' The only person under eighteen in the show, she took first place. But she opted out of the prize--a 12-year old bottle of single malt scotch--and instead ordered a round of chocolate ice cream bars for all her new vacation friends. Since then she has acquired a taste for the more bittersweet, has toured Canada with her poignant and delectable tunes.
Her most recent CD, HEARTS FALL, a CBC and campus station favourite, appeared on CBC playlists like the Vinyl Cafe, Bandwidth, Freestyle and Radio Canada International and spent six months on regional campus top-30 charts across Canada as well as reaching number 49 on the national campus Top-50 chart (exclaim!) and number 19 on the national campus monthly folk/roots/blues charts (earshot-online.com). About the record, CBC's Amanda Putz from BANDWIDTH comments: "[Karyn's] voice is lovely, the arrangements are simple & clever, and there's an almost rustic quality to the record-likely from being recorded live off the floor-that makes it extra sweet."
Read some reviews of the record: Americana-uk.com (UK), Penguin Eggs (Canada), Indie-Music.com (USA) and CtrlAltCountry.be (Belgium)
Buy Hearts Fall on CDbaby.com
Or...digital download/streams of individual songs from Hearts Fall are also available on: i-tunes , Rhapsody , Napster , Y!Music as well as other digital providers. (PS, you can also download the entire album. You can still, of course, buy CDs/downloads from Karyn's EP, Bird, too.)
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You can also purchase "What is Indie?" - the new music documentary by Montreal filmmaker Dave Cool - at an 'artist's buddy' discount. Karyn makes a brief but oh so profound appearance in the film! Plus, her song "Rain" is featured on the compilation CD that accompanies the DVD.

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Member Since: 1/1/2006
Band Website: karynellis.com
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Influences: Fountain pens, red pens, typewriters and voltmeters.
Glassblowers, printmakers, Frank Gehry.
Books, Beethoven, and
This guy I met at a party yesterday.
Milkweed
Mobius strips
Numbers
And space and time (and spacetime.)
Run on sentences, cracks in the sidewalk, felt flowers behind ears, chocolate cigarettes (melted), orange and brown.
Sounds Like: Karyn singing "Not Looking For Love" live in concert at Aeolian Hall in London Ontario, February 2008 ~ Video courtesy of Teresa Tarasewicz.

More Karyn on Youtube.com
Click here to watch a video of Beach performed live at the Phog in Windsor Ontario, May 2007.

"You can hear Welch, Waits, Amos, Brickell, Peyroux, the Cowboy Junkies and the Be Good Tanyas all rolled up in that one tiny body, that one mournful voice. Superior late night stuff! "
Benny Metten, CtrlAltCountry.be (Belgium)
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"You simply have to delight in Karyn Ellis' fragile and sometimes oddly girlish voice. Her high tones and jazz-like melodies are reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, but minimal instrumentation and unexpected musical turns in otherwise straightforward songs are just as connected to the contemporary sound of free-style folk."
Maurice Dielmans -- Kindamusik.net (Netherlands)
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"Karyn Ellis is twangy and cool and unpredictable, delivering a CD that is difficult to classify and impossible to resist. I started with bluesy, front-porch country, then expanded the definition to yee-haw-inspiring bluegrass, and stretched the description a bit more to include some shuffling jazz that would not be out of place in a whiskey-stocked Old West Saloon. Then she had to throw in mystic, cold, poetic goth vibes (Angels in Snow) and operatic performance art (Already Home).
Yes, Ellis makes the reviewers job a difficult one. But I could never get mad at the girl with the sensually childlike voice and that playfully spirited nature that flows through her twangy songs. Shes got me wrapped around her little finger."
Jennifer Layton - Indie-Music.com (USA)
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"[Karyn's] tunes are unbelievably charming because they are organic and simple - but layered with elements of the sweetest pop conventions ever - conjuring up immediate reminders of what we love about musicians like Tanya Donelly, Hope Sandoval, CocoRosie and Martha Wainwright. Except Karyn Ellis does it her own, clever, beautiful, introspective and quirky way. The songs are both hilarious and lonely. Carefree and nostalgic."
Dan MacDonald - Upfront Magazine (Canada)
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Record Label: Mathilde's Home Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

My music at Cannes Film Festival

Hey! I just found out that the film, "Happy Fridays" (Gareth Griffiths, UK), which features two of my songs, is screening at the Cannes Film Festival next week as part of the Short Film Corner program...
Posted by Karyn Ellis on Sat, 10 May 2008 10:31:00 PST

Crack out the champagne!

I'm on Youtube.I especially invite you to check out Not Looking For Love (albeit a goofy musical intro) from my Girls With Glasses show at Aeolian Hall in London Ontario a couple of weeks ago. Videos ...
Posted by Karyn Ellis on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:03:00 PST

WOT90's : Fresh Pic of the Day (Aug 1, 2007)

That's cool! ... Today (well, in like 26 minutes from now) I'm the featured artist on the blog put out by Women of the 90's online radio station. (That last one's a link to their myspace page). Than...
Posted by Karyn Ellis on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:32:00 PST

ten thousand.... and five!

I spent the day yesterday obsessively checking my profile in hopes of catching a screen shot of the moment that my profile read "10 000 views"... it's the thrill I felt on my 10th birthday when I fina...
Posted by Karyn Ellis on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:25:00 PST

Any Robson Arms fans out there? - My music on TV!

My song Karianna will be appearing in the Robson Arms season II finale - episode 13 "Texas Birthmark". This is the first time my music will be in the soundtrack of a national television show!! (I he...
Posted by Karyn Ellis on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:34:00 PST