Karyn Ellis

NOW AVAILABLE! EVEN THOUGH THE SKY WAS FALLING.

Order Directly from Karyn's Little Music Shop @ www.karynellis.com
www.karynellis.com/store/
There's a donation button too, if you've already ripped a copy.

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Also...
Available on CD or mp3s at
CDbaby.com

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Digitally on
karynellis.bandcamp.com
Zunior.com
iTunes
And other digital stores.

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Check out Karyn on CBC Radio 3 to hear additional tracks.

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Reviews for EVEN THOUGH THE SKY WAS FALLING:

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...a magical way with song...Leonard Cohen has no copyright on the word hallelujah." ~ Brad Wheeler, The Globe & Mail, Essential Track of the Day, Tuesday May 11, 2010

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Even Though the Sky Was Falling is more joyous and upbeat than her previous albums of heartbreak and loss. But Ellis retains a porcelain-like quality that remains poignant for its delicacy. ~ Robert Reid, Record staff / Guelph Mercury, May 18, 2010

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MONTREAL - Singer-songwriter Karyn Ellis finds inspiration in some bizarre spots - creepy CSI episodes, for example. But that doesn't make the inventively arranged songs on her latest album, Even Though the Sky Was Falling, any less charming. ~ Bernard, Perusse, What's On Your I-POD?, The Montreal Gazette, Thursday May 6, 2010

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Rating 4 out of 5. A classically trained musician who set out to sing opera, this bright Ontario girl got sidetracked into pop music and weird day jobs, including singing telegrams for a living. Even Though the Sky Was Falling, her sophomore CD, proves this is a woman with stories. ~ Marke Andrews, Windsor Star / Vancouver Sun, May 8, 2010

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Canadian singer-songwriter Karyn Ellis is an innovative and eclectic talent...[she] has the uncanny ability of hitting the jackpot quite regularly with her songs... her work is of another level. ~ Maurice Hope, Americana-uk.com, June 6, 2010

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To put it plain and simple, Karyn Ellis is a pop singer-songwriter that others should aspire to be like....setting the bar for female pop singer-songwriters ~ Gray Owl Point, May 15, 2010

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as if writing a brilliant song were child's play...it is challenging to identify a single standout on an album that is so remarkably clear and consistent. Karyn Ellis is a singer we simply must embrace in Europe. ~ Martin Overheul, altcountryforum.nl, January 27, 2010

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Even Though The Sky Was Falling appears on CHARTattack Staff Top 10 Album Lists For 2009

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"4,5*****.... Flawless songs, an entirely fantastic voice, musicians that put themselves completely at service of the songs, and on top of that, with Don Kerr a great producer on board – we cannot think of what else one could wish for. A fantastic disc!" ~ Benny Metten, CtrlAltCountry.be, January 11, 2010

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"The sky might be falling, but Karyn’s ten celestial tunes on “Even Though The Sky Was Falling”, her second full-length release, are sure to send this songstress’s star on a rapid rise." ~ Allison Brown, !earshot Magazine, January 12, 2010

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"Karyn Ellis's Even Though the Sky Was Falling grabbed my heartstrings immediately and hasn't let go." ~ Rozalind McPhail, NxEW.ca, November 6, 2010

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"Smart and Beautiful. ***** (5 stars) Karyn brings her beautiful sound to life with playful lyrics that spark playful memories. I loved it from the first listen." ~ iTunes Customer Review

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"[Even Though The Sky Was Falling] is ornate and beautiful and just wow."~ Tyler B., Ann Arbor, USA.

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"[Karyn Ellis is] sweet and ferocious all at once. [H]er album [is] a celebration of the mundane...the stuff we're all too hard-bitten and realistic to talk about in front of our friends. The stuff the Romantic poets wrote about. I'm in for the long run with Ellis."~ Eric Malette, London Ontario"

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See Karyn's facebook fan page to read full articles (click on "NOTES").

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Her previous 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."

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Read some reviews of Hearts Fall: Americana-uk.com (UK), Penguin Eggs (Canada), Indie-Music.com (USA) and CtrlAltCountry.be (Belgium)

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Buy Hearts Fall on CDbaby.com

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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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Member Since:

January 01, 2006

Members:

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Read Letters To My Editor: Karyn's blog on wordpress.

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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:

Be My Girl (Music Video) - Dir. Karyn Ellis, 2010.

Karyn performing "Even Though The Sky Was Falling (One Beautiful Day)"LIVE at The Raw Sugar Cafe in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Friday November 13th, 2009.

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Karyn singing "Not Looking For Love" live in concert at Aeolian Hall in London Ontario, February 2008 ~ Video courtesy of Teresa Tarasewicz.

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Karyn singing with Rob Szabo at his release party at the Cameron House in Toronto Ontario October 2008. ~ Video courtesy of Chris Yeung.

The first half of this video is a duet called "Ten Stories Up", which Karyn & Rob co-wrote this summer. Another version of that song will appear on Karyn's upcoming record Even Though the Sky was Falling. The second half of this video features Karyn singing back up on Rob's song "That Kind of Fight" (written by Steve Strongman), which is on Rob's latest record Life and Limb.

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More Karyn on Youtube.com

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"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