Merry Ellen Kirk

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I live in the stars now and have a new home in the

I live in the stars now and have a new home in the clouds! My website, that is. Many thanks to my amazing team at Prism Design Co (@prismdesign.co) for helping me create a visual space that matches my sound. ✨🌙✨

Check it out (link in bio) & tell me what you think - also be sure to sign up for the email list while you're at it, so you can be the first to hear about new music when it comes out. I'll send you a free download of "10 Years / 7 Songs (Live)" as a thank-you. XO, hope you're having a great weekend and taking some time for yourself.
-MEK

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Behind the smoke and mirrors of the SAME MOON vide

Behind the smoke and mirrors of the SAME MOON video shoot.
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Some of the smoke came out of a machine and some of it was from the liquid nitrogen tossed into the pool of water. The mirrorboxes are made out of styrofoam and adhesive mylar paper (+ wood on the big version).
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I bought the moon from a party supply store, and I have to say, moons are much more affordable than one might expect; but it immediately bent and warped when I sat on it, so take from that what you will.
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Photos by @berrnichole
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The lyric videos for all 3 songs from "HEMISPHERES

The lyric videos for all 3 songs from "HEMISPHERES || NORTH" are live on my YouTube channel!! What's your favorite song from the new EP?
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Many thanks @berrnichole for the beautiful artwork and lyric videos.
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HEMISPHERES is a project I conceptualized in early

HEMISPHERES is a project I conceptualized in early 2019. It's an alternate universe full of archetypal truths that relate to the real world, themed around navigation and direction. First we go north, true north, chasing the north star; upward, seeking something better and higher. In this dreamworld, the northern hemisphere takes us up into the sky, as high as we dare to climb. We seek greater things, higher purpose, fueled and driven toward something grand and glorious.
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And yet so often the greatest and most noble intentions are doomed to collapse. The greatest and most powerful of civilizations are partially-told stories in a history book. The higher we climb, the further we fall. And yet it's still worth it. To keep aiming upward, to keep working toward, and choosing to be a force that brings something better into the future.
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Part 2 of "HEMISPHERES || NORTH" is The Tower. It's the climb upward. It's the Tower of Babel. It's every tower we've ever built that deigned to be the highest. It's the greatest ambition and the wildest dreams and the bravery of people that chased them down. And the failure that everyone who's ever succeeded, has dealt with over and over again, and yet somehow it was still worthwhile to keep pushing through moving onward. It's the thing that you know, deep inside, is worth doing against all odds.
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That hopefully something beautiful would be left shining through in the end, after everything crumbles. But that's for next week. .
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"THE TOWER" is out now wherever you listen to music - check it out on Spotify, and pre-save part 3, "ASHES & DUST. (Links for both in my bio.)
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Thank you for the beautiful and perfect artwork, @berrnichole.
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Hi. I hope you're doing ok. . . I, like every othe

Hi. I hope you're doing ok.
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I, like every other human, am pretty bummed about canceling everything, as I had some pretty special things planned over the next months. I heard the Adidas CEO said something like "closing is easy, staying open requires courage" - while I disagree with that entirely in its physical application, it's so important that we keep our SPIRITS open and full of Hope. Times of tragedy and struggle are opportunities for us to lean into our humanity.
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I've been working on this EP for the past year+. I had been planning to release it later this spring, but given how things are going in the world right now I've decided to go ahead and release it on Bandcamp Backstage (link in bio! this helps support my creation of new music) with a public release next Friday.
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It's about finding triumph amidst tragedy and the gems that are left shining through when everything seems like darkness. I hope it helps you feel a little less alone in the world.
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Thanks so much to @berrnichole for creating this beautiful cover art, and to @calebalexmusic @lilac_jun & @centrocellarstudio for contributions to engineering, mixing, and mastering this project, and to @rachpearl for writing this song with me ❤️
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#newmusic #newreleases #indiemusic #indieartist #singersongeriter #covid19 #coronaviruspandemic #staypositive #humanstrong #hope #aimup #samemoon #quarantinemusic #shineinthedark

🔊 SOUND ON 🔊 Lyric video for "UNRAVELLING" f

🔊 SOUND ON 🔊
Lyric video for "UNRAVELLING" featuring @jakubvanyo is out now! Check the link in my bio for the full video and download/stream links! ❤️
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Keep an eye out for this tune in upcoming limited series "Unintended: Unlocking a Nation's Pregnancy Secrets", featuring a century-old true story confronting the price of shame over the generations....release details coming soon.
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Thank you @ruthacuff for helping me put together this lyric video! 🙏
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You are a vessel of potential. One of the things t

You are a vessel of potential. One of the things that most separates us humans from other creatures is our concept of future. We can set a goal, no matter how small or big, and then embark upon achieving it. Any goal is better than no goal, but big goals usually involve other people...making the world a better place. Setting a big goal and then achieving it, that's how you become the hero you could be. And everyone has that potential, you just have to be brave enough to step into it.
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"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language)." - @jordan.b.peterson, 12 Rules for Life
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📸: @berrnichole
💄: @mackpin
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What if there was no such thing as failure? How wo

What if there was no such thing as failure? How would you live your life?
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I learned recently that young children are great at learning languages because they don't have the aversion to failure that adults do. Somewhere along the way we build up these walls, that keep us from being everything that we could be.
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Whatever that thing is in your life that you're scared of, wherever that place is that you don't want to go, that's probably where you need to go. In the legend of King Arthur the Holy Grail was to each knight wherever the "darkest part of the forest" was to them. In Pinocchio he had to go into the belly of the whale to rescue his father, in order to become a real boy.
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It's so interesting that we have that as children but we tend to lose that starry-eyed vibrance of life as we get older.
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"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl
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📸: @berrnichole
💄: @mackpin
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