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Annie A: The Wind That Had Not Touched Land (digital, A Colourful Storm, March 2025)

Now for something a little bit special. Annie A is a one-off collaboration. I confess that the only name I really recognize is Félicia Atkinson, who I finally got into with 2022’s Image Language. The other participants are the poet Christine Petrie, collage-based storytellers Time Is Away, and singer-songwriter Maxine Funke — all of whom […]

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Félicia Atkinson: Image Language (digital, Shelter Press, June 2022)

Félicia Atkinson is one of those people who’s floated around on the edge of my consciousness for yonks without quite managing to register properly. Well, that’s all changed with this quietly brilliant record. It’s based around an electronic ambience or neo-classical drone. There are occasional sprinkles of melody (a reverberating jazzy trumpet, a piano, a […]