KÁRYYN Artist Bio

KÁRYYN is Karin Tatoyan, a Syrian-Armenian American composer turned electronic artist, based in Los Angeles, CA. Her debut EP Quanta 1 was released in early 2017 and includes the single “Aleppo”, a four-minute lament “all about the brain processing memory” that recalls, in the track as well as its home-video style accompanying visual, childhood stays in the city with her cousins. “I wrote this song in 2015 during a time when the word or the name Aleppo wasn’t being said very often,” she explains. Her music and multimedia work (including “Of Light”, a multimedia project with American director Samantha Shay inspired by her mentor Marina Abramovic) has been praised by Björk, and she cites John Tavener and Arvo Pärt as influences. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.