Feb. 01. 2013 "Shifter" sales raise BDS $1230 for the Barbados RSPCA
Dec. 16. 2012 "Shifter" released & reviewed on Earbits
Sept. 23. 2012 Song used by the City of Buenos Aires
Aug. 02. 2012 New video with Automatic Toys
April 25. 2012 Exclaim! features Alice in Wonderland fan video
On "Shifter" -- " If subsequent songs are anywhere near the same quality, Jenny Mayhem will be a tremendous female artist, going just enough against the current musical grain to garner that extra attention it takes to appear on people’s radar"
-Earbits
Selected as one of SoundFM 100.3's "Top Canadian Female Vocalists"
- SoundFM 100.3
"Jenny Mayhem, previously of Toronto band ADA, shines in her solo self-titled debut"
-Toronto Music Scene
"We love the Toronto-centric video for Jenny Mayhem's new folk song "Wide Open," directed by Ace Billet. Cast as a dreamer who kills time at her depressing job at Honest Ed's by imagining her rock-star success, Mayhem flounders around Toronto's discount haven. For fans of the bargain store, the video perfectly immortalizes its weirdness (love those giant deer clocks) and highlights Mayhem's adorability." -Toronto.com
"The Barbados-born, Toronto-based artist just posted the clip for her song “Wide Open,” and the narrative is a cheeky take on the many things an up-and-comer must do to achieve indie-stardom in this town." -The Grid
"Jenny Mayhem's debut video is an unabashed love letter to department store Honest Ed's, and a more tongue in cheek wink at the "blowing up" Toronto indie music scene." -Torontoist
"Three Dutch animation art students -- Pieter-Henk van Wijk, Lilian van den Braak and Rink Hof -- have put together a stop-motion video for Toronto-based singer songwriter Jenny Mayhem. "Alice in Wonderland" appears on Mayhem's 2011 self-titled EP, and this heartfelt video is the work of some dedicated overseas fans. In a statement, van Wijk explained, "We've created the video clip with around 4,000 photos and [it] took us eight weeks to build." The story of the video revolves around a family who are living under the same roof yet completely isolated from one another and absorbed in their own worlds. As a series of circumstances brings them together, the mood shifts from eerie to hopeful and the animation proves to perfectly suit to the tone of the song."
-Exclaim!
Jenny Mayhem is a Toronto based singer-songwriter. Born and raised on the West Coast of Barbados, she travelled to Canada at the age of seventeen. After fronting the progressive rock act ADA for several years, Jenny changed pace with ‘Keep the Fire’, a 6-track EP released in 2009. She introduced her acoustic-folk side with an intimate performance at The Central, a tucked away venue in Toronto’s Annex district.
Songs from "Keep the Fire" are featured in a number of non-profit and artistic video campaigns. "When You're Older" can be heard in Greg Sucharew’s "Bicycle City" documentary, which follows the effects of donating thousands of bicycles to a small town in Nicaragua. This song also closes Denis Smith's "Ball of Light" film, covering the life story of a well-known Adelaide Photographer, and appeared in Wonderbound's "Love in a Digital Age" nouveau ballet performance of 2012. "King of the Street", accompanies a short video of artist Jimmy McGilchrist's participation in Adelaide's 5000+ project, while “All the World” was used in a 2010 British organ donor campaign by the same name.
In October 2011, Jenny released her self-title EP, recorded and mixed by Steve Chahley at DNA Recording Facility. Directed by Ace Billet, the music video for "Wide Open" gained positive attention in Toronto's Exclaim! and The Grid magazines. A video created for "Alice in Wonderland" at the Utrecht School of Arts was also picked up by Exclaim! and press in the Netherlands.
Jenny's latest single "Shifter" was also recorded and mixed at DNA, co-written and produced with Pouya Birgani and released in December 2012. Popular online radio site Earbits wrote "if subsequent songs are anywhere near the same quality, Jenny Mayhem will be a tremendous female artist, going just enough against the current musical grain to garner that extra attention it takes to appear on people's radar."
Jenny continues to write, record and collaborate with artists based around the world.
Other Projects:
Daily Song Project
Loveseat
ADA
Some places where my music has been used! Please contact me at jennymayhem.music [at] gmail.com if you would like to use my music in your project!
"When You're Older"
"Buenos Aires te enamora"
Video campaign by the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wonderbound's "Love in a Digital Age"
Choreographed by Garrett Ammon, and performed by dancers Marian and Colby, this nouveau ballet performance was part of a Winter 2012 show called "Love in a Digital Age"
Winner of the 2012 South Australian Screen Awards' "Best Documentary" category. This 15 minute film follows the life and work of Adelaide photographer Denis Smith.
"What happens to an impoverished developing nation town when you flood it with 20,000 bicycles? You lift three times that number of people out of poverty. Pedals for Progress and founder David Schweidenback have been shipping used American bicycles to Rivas, Nicaragua for the last two decades and the transformation has been incredible"
A children's art project called "Drawing is still alive" in Seoul, South Korea
"Morning Sun"
Snowboarding competition video from O'Neill, Opel and QParks
A video of the Bellairs Recycling Program, a project funded by the Sustainability Projects Fund of McGill University and implemented by the Bellairs staff, students, and visitors.
"Seeing Stars"
Long Haul Films 2011 Highlights
Compilation of wedding footage by Long Haul Films
Scout Film's "Growing Abundance"
Film short showcasing Castlemaine Community House's community garden. Commissioned by Sustainability Victoria.
"All the World"
A British organ donation campaign video by Sanduron.
"King of the Street"
Film short on an urban public art project by artist Jimmy McGilchrist