Kelly Lee Owens
Kelly Lee Owens is a Welsch musician and producer. She released her first album in 2017.
Early Life
Kelly Lee Owens was born in Wales. As a child she sung in choirs and played bass and drums.[1] Owens recalls writing poetry as a child and that her connection with nature was very much a part of who she is and gave her time to write.[2]
At age 19, Owens moved from Wales to Manchester to work at a cancer treatment hospital where she trained for a nursing career. While working as a nurse, Owens would use her paid leave to help run local indie festivals.[2] It was her patients that would ultimately urge her to pursue her music career.[2][3]
Career
Owens left her career as an auxiliary nurse in a cancer ward in Manchester to pursue music in 2009. After moving to London, she interned at XL Recordings in London and also took a job at the record store and dance label Pure Groove.[2]
While interning at XL Recordings Owens played bass in the India rock band The History of Apple Pie.[1] It was while working in various record shops in London that she met Daniel Avery, James “Ghost Culture” Greenwood (aka Ghost Culture) and Erol Alkan. Avery would invite her to collaborate on his 2013 album, Drone Logic.[3]
Following her work with Avery, Owens went on to self-released two white label 12’s.[4] She released Oleic EP in 2016. Her eponymous album, Kelly Lee Owens, was released in March 2017 by the Norwegian label, Smalltown Supersound.
Her first album has been widely praised, earning a 8.0 on Pitchfork.[1] The second track on the album, "Arthur," is a tribute to the late Arthur Russell. Alexander McQueen picked up the track “Arthur” for a runway show. Avery has a co-write credit on “Keep Walking" and Jenny Hval appears on “Anxi.”[5]
Owens has collaborated with St. Vincent, whose single, New York, from her album, Masseduction, she remixed. She has expressed interest in the connection between healing and music. In 2017, she told Pitchfork that she was considering an exhibition on the “relationship between sound, healing, and resonant frequencies."[2] Her music been described as “trance-like,” “techno-pop”[3] and “folk-pop.”[6]
Discography
Studio Albums
Kelly Lee Owens (2017)
EPs
Oleic (2016)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kelly Lee Owens: Kelly Lee Owens Album Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Kelly Lee Owens' Techno Daydreams | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hutchinson, Kate (2017-11-26). "Kelly Lee Owens: 'My patients were my career advisers'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ↑ "Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens". Rough Trade. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ↑ McAllister, Sam (2016-09-07). "Kelly Lee Owens". Pitch Perfect PR. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ↑ "Review: Kelly Lee Owens, 'Kelly Lee Owens'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
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