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Artist
Marcus Fjellström
12+ albums
ambientexperimentalmodern classicalSwedendark ambient
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Marcus Fjellström (1979 - September 2017) was a Swedish musician, composer and multimedia artist. His work ranges from the purely orchestral through electronic music and audiovisual work. He has worked with the Swedish Royal Ballet and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as well as various ensembles and soloists. Marcus' relationship with music started, unsurprisingly, early on in his life. With piano lessons since the age of nine, he was soon fascinated by the magic abilities of synths and samplers and experimented, as a teenager, with electronic music. This passion later grew to include orchestral and modern classical music and led to a degree in Composition. A big art-house cinema fan himself, Marcus had the opportunity over the next couple of years to provide the score for several independent productions in his homeland Sweden. Many of his compositions have been performed by known chamber ensembles, soloists and orchestras to audiences in Sweden as well as Australia, USA, Norway, Finland and the UK. Combining his training in classical composition and his experience with electronic music and sound design Marcus Fjellstöm has managed to create his own musical language. Taking his influences from twentieth-century art music, nineteenth-century orchestral/chamber music and avant-garde electronica he has perfected a unique sound that takes us to a new musical universe where timbre and harmony is a dominating force. His music, often impressionistic, slightly abstracted and always
