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In 2000-2003 Kay Elizabeth embarked on her first experience of academic fulfillment completing a BA(hons) in Ethno-musicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her main focuses were musics of West African Mande culture, Cuba and the Middle East, particularly Iran, taking vocal courses in Persian Classical singing under Toraj Kiaras. Kay continued her education at post grad level and in 2005 completed a MA in Performance and Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, focusing on concepts of performance and the performative body.
Since then she has been performing with different bands and working on her versatility as a vocalist and recording artist. Apart from working the jazz set, Kay has performed with the experimental/doom/disco band Chrome Hoof at Shepherds bush Empire, opening for the Klaxons in 2007 and performs regularly with the ska/funk inspired Fontanas, headlining the PRS stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007. She has also worked with musician Matthew Greasley forming the electronic/downtempo sound of Autodog, whos album 'Nightflower' is already in online stores. Also available online is the single 'Whys My Life Such a Game', a collaboration with composer/guitarist Ross Anderson and Ability Records.
More recently Kay has been focused on her own personal work of acoustic compositions, created out of poetry and prose and set to minimalist guitar chord progressions. A selection of these song-poems, a music project forming her debut album 'Disposition', has been a long time in the making...featuring artists Attab Haddad (oud), Joelle Barker (percussion), Danny Keane (cello), Tom Fry (double bass), Davide Pasqualini (percussion), Sean Khan (sax), Derek Johnson (guitar) and Ross Hughes (double bass). |
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