keep calm stay home

London-based composer Oli Morgan is no stranger to the music industry. Having worked closely with varied artists such as Elton John, Olivia Rodrigo, Princess Nokia, Seal, Venom and more as a mastering engineer/vinyl cutting specialist at legendary Abbey Road Studios, the time has come to shine vivid light on his own material.

As a pandemic sweeps the world, Morgan has attained creative freedom. When the virus causes his profession to slow, Morgan calculatedly experiments with manifold musical influences. Blending his creative and professional work, keep calm stay home’s process blurs lines between composition, mixing and mastering, moving back and forth between them at will. Reveling in the immediacy of his method, Morgan relies on instincts and skill to make each rise, fall, peak and trough extraordinarily emotive.

Lush productions teem with texture, melody and mood. Songs sometimes evolve surprisingly, as Morgan invites the listener to bask in any place or emotion the music might summon. An unmistakable spirit of openness permeates each moment.

Raised in Wales, Morgan developed an “unhealthy obsession” with electronic music during his teenage years, enraptured by the possibilities of music at the forefront of technology. Moving from mainstream inspiration such as deadmau5 to artists like Plastikman and Jon Hopkins, he found a vein of brilliance to draw from.

Now, as keep calm stay home, Morgan expresses his creative freedom in ways he’s not experienced for years. “Lockdown made me realise that I am lucky to have a home I feel safe in, a career that allows me to pay rent and buy food. I have no pre-existing conditions, I'm not at risk,” the artist says, “When I take stock of all those things, it leaves me with an incredible feeling of clarity I have seldom felt in my life. I am no longer distracted by the past, anxious about the future or pressured to be in the present. I just am.”

keep calm stay home's debut EP, A Theme for... is available now.