Photo by Eric Hoyles 2010

There's so much you have to do when you're alive. I hate the conventional part of me who struggles with keeping up with what the ideal woman is supposed to look and be like, what latest innovation that'll make me happy or what a happy life is supposed to be like. I struggle with convention every day. It feeds me with unnecessary cravings and makes me compare myself with unrealistic visions. Living today, at least in my generation equals to the eternal search and race towards getting acknowledgement from others. Getting seen. There once was a saying "I think, therefore I am.” Todays version of that is "You see me, therefore I am".

I don't have to stand out of the crowd. I just don't want to be a part of it.                                                                                                                                                                    

-Christine Owman                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

c & p Christine Owman 2011, All rights reserved

      OWMAN

“Cellist Christine Owman keeps her main axe in check on "Throwing Knives," but lets her songwriting and her Lynchian poetic/ warped melodic sense. This is a memorable record, one that gets richer with repeated listens. More than one song will dig into you, and stay there.” Mike Wood - Music Emissions (US)

"A collection of songs that take us out of the shadows, into the light and back again revealing more on each listen. THROWING KNIVES is an album that would certainly compliment anyone's record collection, created by a performer who - when she graces our shores again - should certainly not be missed. "

Shay Rowan - Von Pip Musical Express (UK)

"The album is untouchable and completely free. Listeners will hear Owman reaching for the sky."

Whitney Lewis - Womans Radio (US)

“Her creative choice of instrumentation certainly grabs your attention and continues to hold it throughout the album.. intelligent and unconventional lyrics..admirably crafted release.”

Lisa Pike - Annular Media (UK)

"What an unexpected pleasure from Sweden, this dark-folky, industrially-roughened THROWIN KNIVES...unusually liberated (and liberating), celebrating the autonomy and self-expressive ability of a woman who defines her own place in her relationships"

Jennifer P Kelly - 30 seconds over (US)

“Rebels know how to stir the pot, but Swedish musician Christine Owman kicks the whole damn thing over... Owman is a multi-instrumentalist songwriting prodigy in the strain of Tom Waits, St. Vincent, and Beck. Owman’s second LP evokes sounds reminiscent of its title: beautiful, emotional, precise, and deadly. “

9 out of 10

Alex Lemonde-Gray, Eastern Surf - Vital Reverb (US)

"..beautiful, eerie melodies, sometimes delicate, sometimes ragged arrangements, and a dream-like vocal prettiness can                            

             only add to the conundrum. Christine Owman is certainly not going for the obvious."

     Jennifer Kelly - Blurt Magazine (US)

“This chanteuse is artistic.. It’s exquisitely haunting and as intriguing she performs backed by 20s silent films.. chilly updates of old-timey accents, then coos like a mother siren waking napping children with a tense of edge instead of a comforting caress.

Jack Rabid - The Big TakeOver (US)

“Christine Owman warmed our winter with clever and passionate lyrics, where also the most melancholy interludes are still enchanting. Her wide repertoire of instruments flows into a sophisticated and captivating sound..”

Riccardo Uras - Drome Magazine (IT)

CHRISTINE OWMAN + MARK LANEGAN pre-listen

A sneak peek of the MARK LANEGAN collaboration. This is the first of two songs which will be part of a vinyl EP to be released in the beginning of 2012