About 15 minutes into this week’s TANK mix, a low drone appears, as if emanating from the core of the earth. Two male voices appear, one musing on the Buddhist disciple Milarepa, the other in what sounds like a religious chant, as the rumble beneath them swells and shifts. Although the piece in question is by Éliane Radigue, it neatly mirrors the artistry of Atkinson, whose output straddles ambient and ASMR without ever fully aligning with either format. The artist, who also runs Shelter Press, creates soundscapes of disquieting intimacy and pure timbre. Naturalistic textures - rain, birdsong, low whispers - conjure an ambiguous sense of space, suggesting the depths and mysteries of the world we inhabit. When TANK asked her about what inspired this mix, she shared the following Frank O'Hara poem:

TODAY by Frank O'Hara

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas!
You really are beautiful! Pearls,
harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all
the stuff they’ve always talked about

still makes a poem a surprise!
These things are with us every day
even on beachheads and biers. They
do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.

[1950]

Tracklist:
Marisa Anderson Tara Jane O Neil : You’d be so nice to come home to
BBC archive of a waterfall
Claire Rousey & Patrick Shiroshi: silent moon
Eliane Radigue: Songs of Milarepa / Elimination of desires
Morton Feldman: Last pieces
Luc Ferrari: Presque Rien avec filles
Harold Budd: L’Enfant Perdu
Félicia Atkinson: If there is no Where ( Music piece for the Riga Biennale)
Kassel Jaeger: Shifted in dreams

photo credit: Eleonore Huisse

TANK Mix: Félicia Atkinson, "harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all"

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Rose Knapp [‡Starving Poet§] is a Neo-Dadaist, Surrealist poetess & sound artist. She is trans & nonbinary.

Artistically self taught, musically she produces chaotic fusions of experimental electronics, sound poetry, musique concrète, techno, and sound art.

She has LP's & EP's released with Natural Sciences, Aa3 Corp., D.M.T. Records, Always Human Tapes, Far East Sound, and others.

She lives in MPLS, and has also lived in NYC and LA.

Félicia Atkinson is a French musician and artiste. 
She co-runs the  independent music label Shelter Press.
Buy and support her music on http://www.feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com
for booking enquiry: regina@frontporchproductions.org
Her latests albums are Ni Envers ni Endroit que Cette Roche brulante (2023 Portraits GRM), Image Langage (Shelter Press 2022), Echo (Boomkat Editions 2021),  Everything Evaporate (2020), The Flower and the Vessel (2019), Hand in Hand (2017), Limpid as a The Solitudes (2018) andComme Un Seul Narcisse (w/ Jefre Cantu Ledesma) (2016) and A Readymade Ceremony (2015), all on Shelter Press.
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Her work is under publishing by Mute Song

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TANK Mix: Félicia Atkinson, "harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all"

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