BIO
 
Elena Shelton was born on the coast of California in a wildly creative community of artists. Her family are painters, architects, writers and designers and she was brought up in a realm of continuous creation. Although she has been writing music since she was a teenager, before turning her full attention to it, she worked for years as a birth doula, bringing hundreds of babies into the world, supporting families through the most important rite of passage of their lives. This experience and the intimacy she has shared for years with friends and strangers, feeds into her music, giving it that distinctive quality, that is hers alone. 
 
When Elena sings love songs, these are not the ordinary kind, for they are drawn from all she has learned being a support to new life, being trusted with the most vulnerable and euphoric moments. Elena continues to bring babies into the world, she continues to live in wild places and to write music.

Elena Shelton’s music draws influence from Irish folk, psychedelic indie & experimental powerhouses like Kate Bush & Bjork. Working in collaboration with Nate Salman (Waterstrider) her album was recorded in the most intimate, immediate way, playing guitar & piano live together, often recording in the middle of the night. Because of this, the album captures something rare: moments of charged synchronicity, the resonance of the time in which it was recorded, the feeling of static in the air, light creeping through the windows in the morning, the sound of birds and the ocean outside.

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