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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from French artist Félicia Atkinson includes field recordings and piano recorded on her phone.
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  1. Nov 14, 2024
    90
    Atkinson, like other environmentally conscious composers such as John Luther Adams, Raven Chacon, and Liza Lim, creates an ecology when they create a piece, an environment they populate with sonic significations for their own meditation, and more so for our beleaguered world, its remaining beauty, and its tiny place in the universe. A favorite of 2024.
  2. Nov 14, 2024
    80
    It is a gorgeous, masterly and strangely addictive album.
  3. The Wire
    Nov 14, 2024
    80
    “Pensées Magiques” has little spoken word, yet it somehow perfectly conveys a sense of nightfall across the landscape, as if you and Atkinson are quietly absorbing it together. [Nov 2024, p.48]
  4. Nov 14, 2024
    74
    ny footholds you might find in the record’s craggy surface are slippery by design. But as a result, the pleasures of Space as an Instrument feel hard won, each moment of melody and peace an epiphany amid a backdrop of stormy uncertainty.