Frances Shelley is a composer and performer, as well as long term environmentalist, vegan and animal rights activist. Her work is influenced by the natural world and how as human animals we interact with it. In 2020 with the support of the prestigious composer agency Manners McDade, she released the slow burning atmospheric album 'A Place that Exists'. 'Songs of Possibility' followed in 2022, a search for hope after the devastation of the pandemic. 2023 saw Frances return to a more stripped back approach with her album 'CHILD', described by Headphone Commute as “beautifully layered keys, gently orchestrated arrangements, a carefully measured dose of electronic post-processing, creating atmospheres that swoop in with warm winds”. Previous to these albums came the self released introspective 'Interiors' and 'Wilderness Rhapsodies' albums, piano music inspired by the bleak, windswept Suffolk marshlands in winter. Thomas Dolby wrote “deep and thoughtful beauty, an otherwordly landscape". She created the soundscape and piano duo 'Pianofield' with Matthew Bickerton in 2016 performing at Latitude Festival and Q3 Ambient Festival, amongst other events. and releasing the wild and unsettling album 'Sustain'. Her work has played on BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified, Soho Radio, and Kexp Radio among others. Her compositions have been included regularly on the Spotify Piano Day playlist curated by Nils Frahm. She currently lives in the mountains of Sintra Portugal. Audio