MUSIC

I started writing music when not even fear could contain the melodies any longer.

Songwriting has always been an ecstatic act — a surrendering to life flowing through me, out through the hands, the throat, the heart.

I can’t think of anything I’d rather do than move bodies and hearts with my art.

Music, for me, is not a side-project. It’s the pulse of my existence. It is god.

Our current culture of personality fragments us into different identities. I stand for a culture of soul, where I can be all that I am — a musician, therapist, writer, lover, fire-lighter. The source of all this is one.

Music has brought me to myself, brought me to my knees, kept me from idleness, kept me from and lead me to the brink of insanity, danced me, drowned me, nurtured and comforted me. It’s taught me more about surrender and gratitude than anything else. It’s given me a reason to wake up excited for each new day.

May my sounds inspire yours.

CALLING IN IRISH MUSICIANS/PRODUCERS

Recording in progress for some 2022 releases. I’m inviting any Irish musicians & producers who’d like to collaborate on these to reach out to me. Trusting the mystery!

“PAPERBACK DREAMS“

(monadic love songs)

New album of songs from 2020, released on the full moon of Dec. 30th.

First reviews of the album:

“Ellowen’s ‘Paperback Dreams’ (the title is taken from a lyric) combines melodic loveliness with refreshing (ie not American) emotional honesty and stories. Line after line sung with vulnerability and curiosity. These five paperback dreams, sometimes sparse, sometimes with a full band sound, a shave over half an hour, by an Irish troubadour really finding her voice in New Zealand, with Shunya colouring in between the dots, have the potential to become hardback classics.”

“There will come artists and poets and writers now who know the magic and power of song as spell to touch the cells of the earth that are you, because they are singing from that same earth that is them, that have the magic to enter not the space of the mind but the tender places of the heart so that it may be stripped bare again, so it may feel the wide open plains of this earth and the emptiness of the universe. Ellowen’s voice, songs, soul are/ is this, they are the pulsing note of life freed from all shrouds and standing nakedly for love, as love.”

“WILD LOVE”

My new single of 2020, on Spotify, iTunes, and the rest.

Music video co-created by the Highden Temple Soul Tribe.