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Emerging from the Nordic experimental music scene, swedish artist Fågelle is a raw collision of lyrical beauty and unhinged sonic expression. Her intricate soundscapes breathe with detail, blending fragile folkloristic passages with orchestral walls of sound, electronic disturbances, and primal, haunting vocals. Each performance feels like a ritual – a rare, hypnotic experience where the delicate meets the immense, and vulnerability transforms into power.

Following two acclaimed albums — Helvetesdagar (2019) and Den svenska vreden (2023) Fågelle now returns with a bold new project rooted in her home region of Halland, Sweden. This upcoming album marks a shift in process and place: a deep listening to the forests and villages that shaped her. Rather than nostalgia, it’s about reclaiming space and memory and transforming overlooked places into creative frontiers.
Sonically, it’s dark, textural, and atmospheric — distorted guitars, unruly drums, brass, broken electronics, and field recordings from forests, community halls, and teenage corridors of her youth, while lyrical, luminous vocals thread hope through the noise.

She has toured extensively across Europe, both solo and supporting Zola Jesus, BIG|BRAVE, and Esben and the Witch, and played festivals and venues like Roadburn, Way Out West, Berghain Kantine, Petit Bain, and more.

Her previous album, Den svenska vreden, received wide critical praise:

 “A fascinating thing: light, elegant and gossamer-thin, but… exhibiting tremendous strength.” – Metal Hammer

 “A remarkable canvas to behold.” – Electronic Sound

 “Hypnotic, wondrous, and completely otherworldly.” – The Sleeping Shaman

 “Much more cathartic than chaotic.” – DJ Mag

 “Fågelle’s creative energy is transcendental.” – CVLT Nation

The ability to think and feel is what makes us humans differ from other species on earth. This is also what Cecilia Damström (b.1988) tries to achieve with her compositions; to make people think and feel.

Born into a multicultural family in Helsinki, languages and the possibility of combining languages, have always appealed to her while composing. With a background as a classical pianist and with theatre as an interest, also harmony, direction, a sense of drama, and expressivity are always present in her music.

Since graduating in 2014 she has constantly been working on commissions for various ensembles and festivals. Her compositions have received several national and international composition prizes 2009-2018. Her fairytale opera “Dumma Kungen” won the award for  “Children opera of the year” in 2018. Her works for orchestra have been performed by Jyväskylä Sinfonia (2016 & 2018), Gävle Symphony Orchestra (2018), Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (2018) and Avanti! (2011) as well as at festivals such as Young Nordic Music Days in Aarhus (2016) and Tampering (2014, 2015 and 2017). Since 2019 she is signed with one of the biggest music publishers in the Nordic countries, Gehrmans Musikförlag.

Damström’s broad catalogue of compositions includes chamber music, choral works, orchestral works as well as two chamber operas. Her music has been performed in Canada, Germany, England, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Czech Republic. Her music is regularly performed in Finland at different concerts as well as at festivals such as Tampere Biennale (2010, 2012 and 2014), RUSK Chamber Music Festival (composer in residence 2017), Helsinki Winds (2017), Summer Sounds in Sysmä (2015), Summer Sounds in Porvoo (2011), Tampering Festival (2014, 2015 and 2017), VocalEspoo (2014 and 2016) and also at the Kokonainen Festival, where she is composer in residence (2016-2019). Her music has been radio broadcast in Sweden and Germany and is regularly broadcast in Finland.

This season’s 2023-2024 highlights include the world premiere of Extinctions commissioned by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the world premiere of the accordion concerto Permafrost with soloist Sonja Vertainen and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra , as well as ten performances in Germany of her string quartet Letters by the Elaia Quartet.

Damström studied composition with Doctor Hannu Pohjannoro at Tampere University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2014. Currently she is finishing her master studies in composition at Malmö Academy of Music for Professor Luca Francesconi. She has also gathered much inspiration by travelling to master classes around Europe.

Damström is working full time with commissions for musicians, ensembles and orchestras. The Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and Alfred Kordelin Foundation have supported her artistic work.

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