Kristy Thirsk

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Kristy Thirsk
OriginCanada
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
Labels Nettwerk

Kristy Thirsk is a platinum-selling Canadian singer-songwriter best known for her work with Delerium.

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Rose Chronicles

Thirsk was the singer and a co-writer for the band Rose Chronicles, which was signed to Nettwerk in the 1990s. Rose Chronicles released two full-length albums: Shiver (1994), which won a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album, and Happily Ever After (1996). The band split up in 1997.

Collaborations

In the years that followed, Thirsk was featured as a guest vocalist and co-writer on albums by Delerium and Balligomingo. She sang the vocals in Front Line Assembly's cover of Madonna's "Justify My Love" and Mystery Machine's cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass."

According to Thirsk, in an Auralgasms interview, Garrett Schwarz allegedly borrowed samples from her Delerium song, "Incantation" and then released his own song on the Balligomingo album, Beneath The Surface. This, she explained, was the reason she discontinued any further collaboration with Schwarz. [1]

Thirsk was also involved in the initial stages of Adrian White's side project Silent Alarm. The Sleepthief album The Dawnseeker, released June 2006, features Thirsk's vocals in the songs "Sublunar (Sweet Angel)". Sleepthief's follow-up The Chauffeur – The Remix – EP features Thirsk on "Send Me an Angel", a remake of the Scorpions' 1990 power ballad. She also sings on "Overkill" for the D:Fuse & Mike Hiratzka album Skyline Lounge (July 2007).

Thirsk and fellow Delerium singer Shelley Harland were the two lead vocalists for Delerium's first US tour in 2003. She toured again as the singer with Delerium's European Tour in May 2008, playing in London, Antwerp, Budapest, Prague, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Athens, Thessaloniki, and Moscow.

Solo career

Thirsk's first released solo track was "Bounds of Love", which was on the soundtrack of the movie Kissed in 1997. This song received a Genie Award nomination for Best Movie Theme.

She worked on her own material throughout this period and released her first full-length solo album, Souvenir, in 2003. Souvenir was produced by Eric Rosse (Tori Amos, Lisa Marie Presley).

In May 2008, Thirsk released a limited edition 4-song EP called Under Cover EP with the songs "Hourglass", "Conspiracy", "What If I", and a cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" that features exclusive mixes of the four songs that will also be on her upcoming solo album. The EP was sold on the tour only and online.

Her song "Out There" was released on the Sirènes compilation album in May 2008. Kristy designated the song as the theme song for Red Cross Canada in January 2005, in response to the 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake/Asian tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Kristy also co-wrote and sang vocals "Black Flowers" from Matt Darey's Urban Astronauts project. This song was a single and club hit in the UK.

Discography

Rose Chronicles

Kristy Thirsk

YearTitleLabelTypeNotes
1995 Lit from Within Nettwerk CompilationFeatures exclusive track "Songbird".
1995 Slow Brew NettwerkCompilationFeatures exclusive track "Songbird (Remix)".
1997 Kissed Motion Picture SoundtrackNettwerkSoundtrackFeatures exclusive track "Bounds of Love". Kristy is also featured on the movie's score.
2000BootlegsSelf-ReleasedE.P.Features demos and live tracks. Released to support Kristy's west coast tour. Only 200 copies were made.
2001 Ready For Radio! Music West 2001 NettwerkCompilationFeatures exclusive track "Over It". Released to promote the New Music West Festival 2001.
2003Souvenir Pretty Noise Studio AlbumProduced by Eric Rosse.
2004SouvenirPretty Noise/Maple Music Studio AlbumProduced by Eric Rosse. Includes bonus track, a re-recorded version of "Over It"
2008Under CoverSelf-ReleasedE.P.Physical copies available exclusively on Delerium’s 2008 European tour. Collaboration with Mike Hiratzka.
2008 Sirènes: The Beauty of the Female Voice Spectacle Entertainment CompilationFeatures exclusive track "Out There".
2010Beauty 2NeurodiscCompilationFeatures exclusive track "Fading Light".
2014PhoenixSelf-ReleasedStudio AlbumFeatures "Mistake", "Little Soldier", "Hourglass", "Bandage", "Poison", "Torture", "Conspiracy", "Break Me", "Lit", "Fading Light", "Phoenix", and "Pulse". Collaboration with Mike Hiratzka. [2]

Guest appearances

YearArtistTitleLabelTypeNotes
1994 Delerium Semantic Spaces Nettwerk Studio AlbumKristy is featured on "Flowers Become Screens", "Incantation" and "Flatlands".
1994Delerium"Flowers Become Screens"NettwerkCD Single
1994Delerium"Incantation"NettwerkCD Single
1995 Mystery Machine Ten SpeedNettwerkStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "Chihuahua". Some copies of this album feature a cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass", which also features Kristy.
1995Mystery Machine"Heart of Glass"Nettwerk7" SingleLimited edition single featuring Kristy singing lead.
1997Delerium Karma NettwerkStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "Enchanted", "Lamentation", "Wisdom", "’Til the End of Time" and "Heaven's Earth".
1999 Front Line Assembly Virgin Voices Volume 1 - A Tribute to Madonna Cleopatra/Eagle Records CompilationKristy is featured on "Justify My Love". The song was supposed to be credited to Delerium, but due to contractual problems, the song is credited to another of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber's projects, Front Line Assembly.
2001Delerium"Heaven's Earth"NettwerkCD Single
2002 Balligomingo Beneath the Surface Windham Hill Studio AlbumKristy is featured on "Heat".
2003Delerium Chimera NettwerkStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "Returning".
2003James DivineInterventionStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "Sun Moon Stars" and "Catch Me". James Divine is the pseudonym of Kristy's brother J.T. James.
2004Delerium The Best of Delerium NettwerkStudio AlbumCompilation featuring "Flowers Become Screens" and "Incantation".
2006Delerium Nuages du Monde NettwerkStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "Self-Saboteur".
2006 Sleepthief The DawnseekerNeurodiscStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "Sublunar (Sweet Angel)".
2007SleepthiefThe Chauffeur EPNeurodiscE.P.Kristy is featured on "Send Me an Angel".
2007 D:Fuse & Mike Hiratzka Skyline Lounge Lost Angeles Recordings Studio AlbumKristy is featured on "Overkill".
2009SleepthiefLabyrinthine HeartNeurodiscStudio AlbumKristy is featured on "A Cut from the Fight" and "Reversals".
2010DeleriumVoiceNettwerkEPKristy is featured on re-recorded versions of "Flowers Become Screens" and "Self-Saboteur".
2010 Matt Darey Nocturnal Black Hole Recordings Studio AlbumKristy is featured singing "Black Flowers" on Matt Darey's Urban Astronauts project.
2012DeleriumMusic Box OperaNettwerkStudio AlbumKristy is featured as a guest vocalist on "The Sky" and "Lock Down".
2015Delerium Rarities & B-Sides NettwerkCompilationKristy is featured as a guest vocalist on "Ray".
2015Conjure OneHoloscenicArmada Music BundlesStudio AlbumKristy is featured as a guest vocalist on "Ghost".

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References

  1. Kristy Thirsk at Musical Discoveries
  2. "Kristy Thirsk to debut new album Phoenix on Strangeways Radio". Archived from the original on April 4, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2014.