Fee Reega was born in Balingen, in southern Germany, and moved through the music scenes of Berlin and Madrid before settling in Asturias, where she currently lives. She has released records in German, English, and Spanish, including two studio LPs, La Raptora (2014) and Sonambulancia (2017). Beyond her solo project—described by her as “problematic folk”—she is also a singer and songwriter in the post-punk band Captains and in the German psychedelic folk-rock group Dead Hands. With her dark, sweet songs sung in Spanish with a German accent, she has become an established presence in the Spanish music scene and is constantly working on new projects. Reega is a world yet to be discovered.

Released in 2017 on Humo, Sonambulancia contains ten tracks that slither with a life of their own between wakefulness and dream, in the darkness of mysterious wide-open eyes. “La noche cae” opens the album in a dark atmosphere of rising tension, slowly wrapping itself around the skin like a vine of thorns and fire. It is delicate Freudian folk that erupts into an electric storm of strings, ghostly winds, and a pulsing drum kit which—together with Fee Reega’s vaporous, penetrating voice—does not point the way back home for shelter, but instead pushes us deeper into a dense, hypnotic forest of fears, desires, and open wounds. Strange characters and raw emotions collide and force their way through the cracks of the unconscious, like the truck driver in the explosive “20 multas en un día,” whose skin smells of gasoline as he jumps over any fence, wall, or person, with Fee displaying all her vocal power.

Sonambulancia is music for when “the night, sensed deep in the veins, clings to the walls with its tentacles and does not even let you hear silence,” as Fernando Merlo once said.

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FEE REEGA
SONAMBULANCIA