Short Bio:

(Eli)zabeth Owens is an avant-pop harpist & songwriter based out of Richmond, VA. Blending folk, prog, pop, art rock, latin and jazz with lush looping tracks and the magic of harp, Owens’ work seamlessly weaves genres to serve the purpose of their music: a call to confront and share in the deep and beautiful mysteries of being human.

Long Bio:

(Eli)zabeth Owens is an avant-garde music producer, harpist, multimedia artist and educator based in Richmond, VA. After graduating college with dual degrees in Photo/Film and Psychology in 2015, they rekindled their passion for music and has devoted the last several years to crafting spiritual experiences through the alchemy of music, experimental video and interactive digital art. 

Blending over 10 years of classical training in piano, voice, guitar, and harp with their love of experimental time-based media, Owens’ work is a genre-fluid blend of audiovisual avant pop that endeavors to immerse listeners/viewers/players in expansive psychological cosmos where they feel both safe and courageous enough to explore their deepest selves and embrace experiences of existential dread, psychological dismemberment, shame, strength, and compassion.

At the root of their process shines a spiritual practice of deep listening and space-making that allows for disparate media (unconscious content of the soul, musical motifs, collage, written word, video and audio recordings, etc.) to converse and interact with one another through both artist and technology (sound and video editing, AI-generation, game development, etc). In this way, the raw material of the psyche is transmuted into a new and comprehensive view of the Self.

Influences include Holly Herndon, Kate Bush, FKA Twigs, Bjork, Joanna Newsom, and Caroline Polacheck.

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Previous releases included Knock Knock — a three-act visual album about sobriety and what it means to be fully human — and Coming of Age, a folk/rock record about unraveling toxic myths.

For the last five years, Eli has also been passionately pursuing music education, teaching both private lessons and K-12. In what little free time they have, they also help run Grimalkin Records, a nonprofit record label and collective that supports marginalized artists.