We’re an evolving project of discovery.

Our ideas, our music, our web pages, all in motion.

We’re history lovers, mostly storytellers.


Our thoughts and ideas are the bones we leave behind. 

River Styx

“River Styx brings my time in Phoenix House on Hart Island to life. I was fourteen when I got there…I’m tackling my own story, the stories of abandoned people, of what it’s like to be left behind.” – Ellen Kaye

Renegade

“it was America in 1974. Not like anything else.” -Ellen Kaye

A Manhattan Fairy Tale

“I started telling this story a long time ago. For now I’ll let the song say it all.” -Ellen Kaye

The RTR

“History in a nutshell told by a nightclub singer, not an historian.” -Ellen Kaye

Buster Blue Eyes

“His blue eyes were always a little further down the road, drifting upon unseen waters.” -Ellen Kaye

Lovers On Horseback

“The original letter was very plainly written…but it was enough to make me want to write this song.” -Ellen Kaye

Sleeping Shadows Lullaby

“How it feels to have your heart filled to the brim with love and dread for your child.” -Ellen Kaye

The Unknown

“It is the saddest story ever told. With the boldest beginning. But the darkest flaw is in our making. ” -Ellen Kaye

Stardust At My Back

“That you could curse your destiny, upend it and walk away.”-Ellen Kaye