Kelly Lee Owens collaborated with John Cale on her latest single
Owens says her desire to work with Cale, who she met in London while working on one of his solo tracks, came from a desire to connect with her Welsh roots. Cale, also a Welshman, sang part of the vocal in the Welsh language.
“It’s not usually this immediate that a productive afternoon brings a satisfying conclusion to a task,” says Cale, the Velvet Underground member, solo artist and Brian Eno collaborator. “Kelly sent me a track she’d written—an instrumental that was a gentle drift—something comfortably familiar to what I’d been working on myself. On the first listen, the lyrics came with ease and a chorus and melody grew out of it. Even the Welsh phrases seemed to develop from a place of reflective memory which was a surprise since I hadn’t written in Welsh for decades.”
Owens second album, Inner Song, was originally meant for a May release via Smalltown Supersound, but was pushed back to August 4th due to the pandemic.
Listen to “Corner Of My Sky feat. John Cale.”
Owens recently released a remix of Inner Song track “Melt!” from the London artist Coby Sey.
