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Jennifer Lucy Allan
, March 9th, 2021 08:43
Jennifer Lucy Allan interviews the Sunderland-born viola player about where her music takes her, sharing a history with British Sea Power, and what pushed her to begin making solo music
Alison Cotton tintype portrait by Andy Martin
When people talk of music ‘transporting’ them somewhere, more often than not they are describing a vague escape from an immediate (probably domestic) reality – an experience of music that for a few sacred moments makes them forget about the washing up. What is not usually intended is the feeling one has actually travelled back through time to a specific location, but for Sunderland-born musician Alison Cotton, this is exactly what she means.