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Steam 4:050:00/4:05
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Come To Me 3:170:00/3:17
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Mimbi 3:440:00/3:44
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0:00/3:05
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0:00/4:21
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0:00/3:44
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0:00/3:04
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0:00/4:29
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0:00/3:45
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0:00/4:05
Electronic Press Kit
Short Biography
Maryen cairns
2020 has already proven to be an extraordinary year… for Scottish born Australian, Maryen Cairns, currently based in Guernsey in The Channel Islands, the music technology she has been involved in for so long is proving its use. Collaborating remotely with a musical team in London the first song Hope will be released 18th September.
Maryen has worked for many years on her craft, which has taken her both across Australia and around the world. She was based in London for a decade working with world class musicians & playing shows both solo and with her band, including supports for FISH at Hammersmith Apollo and for The Troggs at The Astoria Theatre. Back in Australia she instigated and ran the 1st “Originals Only” Open Mic night. Having raised a family on an off-the-grid mountaintop in South East Queensland, Maryen worked with children in remote communities in Western Australia to help them write their own stories into song, and wrote a show, Femina Australis, telling the stories of 12 significant Australian women, presenting it at the Somerset Celebration of Literature and taking it on the road with her family across 18,000 kilometres in 2017.
Producer Chris Kimsey produced her 1st single Too Young To Die back in 1992, and they reunited in 2016 to record her Femina Australis album in 2016, then again for Come To Me in 2019 - and they collaborated on Hope too!
Live Videos
STEAM live 2020, GONE - 2019
Short snippets of The Wreck Of The Georgette, The Devil's Fly, Born Good
Maryen @ Festival of Small Halls
House Of Prog
17 November 2019
"she allows her vocals to soar and the electric guitar break is quite superb as it transforms the piece.
Overall this is a more varied album than ‘Femina Australis’, yet still manages to retain her roots, so she uses a steel when the time is right, or a violin, and plenty of piano and warm fretless bass. It is again the album of a mature artist who is confident in her ability and songwriting skills. She can put an edge on her vocals, or just lift them up showing her soprano range, or let it come down lower to provide more emotion. Lyrics are incredibly important to Cairns, and each song really is a story in its own right"
- Kev Rowland