FÅGELLE ANNOUNCES EU SPRING TOUR DATES
NEW ALBUM, DEN SVENSKA VREDEN OUT NOW VIA MEDICATION TIME
Emerging out of the nordic experimental music scene, Fågelle is a wild collision of lyrical beauty and unhinged, raw expression. Soundscapes, heaving with intricate detail, meet radically fragile and powerful vocals. Fågelle will celebrate the release of her newest album, Den svenska vreden, touring in the EU throughout Spring and early Summer, including some dates in support of Esben and the Witch. She will also perform as part of Maifeld Derby Festival in Mannsfield. Dates and details below.
01/04 - Gothenburg, Oceanen, SE
05/04 - Copenhagen, Lygtens, DK
22/05 - Berlin, Cassiopeia, DE*
23/05 - Hamburg, Hafenklang, DE*
24/05 - Cologne, Gebäude 9, DE*
03/06 - Leipzig, Moritzbastei, DE*
05/06 - Lyon, Kraspek Myzik, FR
07/06 - Graz, Cafe Wolfe, AT
08/06 - Bratislava, Pakt, SK
09/06 - Žilina, Stanica, SL
10/06 - Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, U:FEST Rožnov, CZ
16/06 - Mannheim, Maifeld Derby, DE
* with Esben and the Witch
About the album, Den svenska vreden, Fågelle explores feelings of isolation and anger in collage-like soundscapes made with twisted field recordings, mobile memories, digital trash, dark electronics, and howling choirs while moving between harmony and noise. She juxtaposes lyrical songwriting and disruptive experiments to reflect the whole in all their facets.
“I was so angry and had been for years.” explains Fågelle, “A kind of adult rage that was new to me. Feeling forced to accept and stay in circumstances making me miserable. To patiently suffer now for a better future. But also, a subdued Swedishness that doesn’t hold space for flaring, tearing, wallowing rage but rather pushes it down from the surface and inwards. Question is, where does the rage go, and which forms does it take? That became a starting point for the record where I kept exploring my personal boiling points, pressures and releases, where to hold my rage, in words and in the body, as a swede and as a woman.”
She continues, “Swedish social norms value the level headed and emotionally subdued. There is a pressure put especially hard on women to function like social glue and to always be consensus oriented. It’s a pressure to practice self control, a self choking of non-agreeable ideas and feelings. Rage being one of them.”
A move to Germany allowed her to feel more free. “I could be mad and I could be nice. At the same time. That freedom informs how I make music a lot… Giving myself permission to throw myself at the wall completely.”
This desire for freedom in music can be traced back to Fågelle’s love of free jazz. “When I was 19 I was invited to a workshop with the saxophone player Mats Gustafsson and his free jazz band The Thing. That changed my life. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever heard. But the energy was thick and palpable and it stuck with me completely. After that I knew that I wanted to experiment more freely and with other types of sounds.”
"unique and daring.” - Distorted Sound
“A fascinating thing: light, elegant and gossamer-thin, but, when put to the test, exhibiting tremendous strength…despite its hushed subtly, there’s also a steely uniqueness of vision at play.” - Metal Hammer
"dripping with emotion, mysticism, and wonder, which will leave your soul caressed and confused, both at the very same time" - The Sleeping Shaman
"Den svenska vreden reflects its creator: complex, inscrutable, enigmatic, and multi-faceted.” - Aural Aggravation
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