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Félicia Atkinson
12+ albums
ambient11dronefolkminimalism
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Félicia Atkinson (Paris, b. 1981) is a French composer and visual artist, currently living in Rennes, France. After graduating from the French art school Les Beaux Arts de Paris, a city where she started to make art and music under her own name, she moved to Brussels in 2009 to pursue her artistic career, developing a wide visual body of work mainly focusing on sculpture and painting. It's also there that she began to record music under the moniker Je suis le petit chevalier. Between 2010 and 2013, she released albums with this moniker on labels such as Shelter Press, NNA, Aguirre, Digitalis. The year 2011 was the year of two albums recorded under her own name, recorded mainly with Rhodes and guitar: The Driver (Hibernate) and O-RE-GON (Home Normal). In 2013, Mexico-based label Umor Rex released a collection of b-sides and rarities on the double LP Visions / Voices. Nature and contemplation playing a central role in her creative process, in 2013 Atkinson relocated in the French Alps for two years, where she recorded her highly acclaimed album A Readymade Ceremony and the material for her collaborative album Comme un seul narcisse with NY-based musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. With those two albums, she reached a new milestone in her musical research, defining the seminal elements of her actual composition tools: concrete music, ASMR voices, minimal electronics, field recordings, improvisation with guitar and piano, abstract distortions and infra basses, always held by a stron
