Kelly Lee Owens

Kelly Lee Owens is a Welsh musician and producer. She released her first album in 2017.

Early life

Kelly Lee Owens was born in Wales. Owens recalls writing poetry as a child and that being out in nature (in her mother's fields) gave her the time and the solitude to write.[1] As a teenager, she sung in her school choir[2] and played bass and drums.[3]

At age 19, Owens moved from Wales to Manchester to work at a cancer treatment hospital. [1] While working as an auxiliary nurse, Owens would use her paid leave to help run local indie festivals.[1] It was the patients who would ultimately urge her to pursue her music career.[4][1]

Career

Owens left her career as an auxiliary nurse in a cancer ward in Manchester to pursue music in 2009.[4] After moving to London, she interned at XL Recordings and worked at various record stores including Pure Groove.[1] During that time, Owens played bass in the indie rock band The History of Apple Pie.[3]

It was during those early days in London that Owens met Daniel Avery, James Greenwood (aka “Ghost Culture”), and Erol Alkan.[4] Avery and Greenwood, with whom she manned the counter at the now closed Pure Groove[5], brought her into the studio and introduced her to production software and Greenwood offered to be her sound engineer.[6] Avery would later invite her to collaborate on his 2013 album Drone Logic. [7] Owens released Oleic EP a year later, in 2016.[8]

Her eponymous album Kelly Lee Owens was released in March 2017 by the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound. Later in 2017, she released a bonus cut from her album titled "Spaces." [9] The second track on Kelly Lee Owens, "Arthur," is a tribute to the late Arthur Russell.[3] Alexander McQueen used the track “Arthur” for his Fall 2016 runway show prior to the release of the studio album.[10] Avery has a co-write credit on “Keep Walking" and Jenny Hval appears on “Anxi.”[11]

Owens has collaborated with St. Vincent, whose single, "New York" from her album Masseduction she remixed. She also collaborated with Björk on her EP dedicated to remixes of "Arisen My Senses" from her album Utopia. [12]

Owens' music has been described as "dream pop,"[9] “techno pop”[4] and “folk-pop.”[13] 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."[1]

Discography

Albums

Kelly Lee Owens (2017)

EPs

Oleic (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kelly Lee Owens' Techno Daydreams | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  2. ↑ "Kelly Lee Owens: The Art Of Being An Artist". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  3. 1 2 3 "Kelly Lee Owens: Kelly Lee Owens Album Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Hutchinson, Kate (2017-11-26). "Kelly Lee Owens: 'My patients were my career advisers'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  5. ↑ "Kelly Lee Owens - Inverted Audio". Inverted Audio. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  6. ↑ McDonald, Scott (2018-03-27). "Kelly Lee Owens has a master plan". San Diego CityBeat. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  7. ↑ "Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens - Album review - Loud And Quiet". Loud And Quiet. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  8. ↑ "Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens". Rough Trade. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  9. 1 2 ""Spaces" by Kelly Lee Owens Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  10. ↑ Cusumano, Edd Horder,Katherine. "Meet the Transcendent Kelly Lee Owens, an Alexander McQueen-Approved Electronic Musician". W Magazine. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  11. ↑ McAllister, Sam (2016-09-07). "Kelly Lee Owens". Pitch Perfect PR. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  12. ↑ "Jlin, Kelly Lee Owens, & More Remix Björk's "Arisen My Senses" For New EP". Stereogum. 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  13. ↑ "Review: Kelly Lee Owens, 'Kelly Lee Owens'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
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