Tag: Félicia Atkinson

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For her latest album Promenades the composer Félicia Atkinson delivers a set of moody, gauzy and somehow even furtive piano-based songs which she describes as a 'sound meditation recorded with a Nord keyboard during winter while thinking of spring'. She invites listeners to wander through these six immersive compositions, which are named after colours from black, blue and green to...

It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

On her latest side for Portraits GRM, the label which now operates in collaboration with her own Shelter Press following the untimely death in 2021 of Peter Rehberg, the French musician Félicia Atkinson conjures the haunts and attitudes of the American modernist painter and draftswoman Georgia O'Keeffe through snatches of soft-spoken word, faint outcrops of piano, field recordings and...