If you like walks in the woods, scraps of poetry, and/or the music of Grouper, you’re in the right place. French electroacoustic composer Félicia Atkinson creates understated soundscapes influenced by the natural world. Opener Liz Draper (Low, Charlie Parr) reinvigorates her solo album Meno on upright bass.

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Félicia Atkinson lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s. She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson.

For Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many things that don’t speak in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electroacoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recording, midi instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both French and English.

Atkinson’s own voice, always shifting to make space, might whisper from the corner or assume another character’s tone. She uses composing as a way to process imaginative and creative life, frequently engaging with the work of visual artists, filmmakers, and novelists. Her layered compositions tell stories that alternately stretch and fold time and place, stories in which she is the narrator but not the protagonist.

Atkinson has collaborated with musicians including Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Watson, Christina Vantzou, and Stephen O’Malley and with ensembles including Eklekto (Geneva) and Neon (Oslo). She has performed at venues and festivals including INA GRM/Maison de la Radio and the Philharmonie (Paris), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Atonal (Berlin), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow), and Skanu Mesz (Riga). Her work has been commissioned by filmmakers (Ben Rivers, Chivas de Vinck) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry). She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials, including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City).

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Bassist Liz Draper has played with everyone from indie pioneers Low to the legendary songwriter Iris DeMent. Draper released her anticipated debut solo album Meno at the end of 2025 on Liatris Records. Dark, murky, heartbreaking, and deep, Meno fits squarely in the genre of “classicaldoomfolkjazz” and was one of Uncut magazine's Highest Rated Albums of 2025.