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Recording-artist, writer, visual artist/actress and model, Andréa Nebel has deep and unusual ideas behind her work. Mainly "infamous" for her long time involvement in the counterculture, she also enjoys working and associating with major names in entertainment. She likes eccentrics of all kinds...

She loves to create dark atmospheres and to explore hidden human feelings. A lot of Andréa's ideas are created in her dreams and, thus, inspire her music, visuals and stories.

Through her artist name of Nebelhexë, Andréa has previously released the three albums Laguz - Within the Lake, Essensual and the latest one, Dead Waters. Her future albums will be released as Andréa Nebel, no longer as Nebelhexë. The first Andréa Nebel is her spoken words' album, The Dark Side of Dreaming, with poems from her book with the same name.

Her music has been used for films and commercials. Her metaphoric lyrics are often recited and published in various books and magazines.

She also has a new side-project, Aghast Manor - with this project, she creates dark ambient soundtracks suitable for film music. The project focuses mainly on ghostly soundscapes.

Andréa writes surreal stories, scripts and poems, such as her graphic novel One Autumn Day and her poem book The Dark Side of Dreaming. Her film-scripts are (again) heavily inspired by her dreams and nightmares and she works towards making her own movies (read more about it in the Visuals section).

"I think an artist's greatest strength is to be able to display his/her fears and vulnerability...
I write about what I know... I have always been familiar with the dark and surreal... it made me become fascinated with the hidden psyche, the suppressed sides we can release... the mental games we can play... "

Check out the Fashion section for Andréa's designs, shirts, perfumes, cards and more.


Background

Andréa Nebel Haugen has always been fascinated by the unknown and forbidden. She always loved mysteries, dark aesthetics and opium-hazed decadent literature. Her musical inspirations, naturally, come from 80's Post-Punk, Gothic and particularly British Pop/Wave.

Originally looking at a model career in London, she soon quit that "shallow scene" in search of dares and intense experiences. Her curiosity always brought her to many strange places. She was living with a bunch of eccentrics in abandoned buildings that they turned into night-clubs. She travelled for a while throughout the British countryside with "New Age travellers" and Irish gypsies.

She explored many different subculture scenes and was clubbing with individuals like Martin Gore from Depeche Mode or Ringo Star's daughter, Lee. She then became a Fetish model (not because she was into Fetish, but because she had so many offers), did jobs with Redemption and Hammer movies and she was known from her dark erotic performances (such as those on the Cradle of Filth shows).

She caught the attention of writers, musicians and film-makers of the esoteric art scene, and soon dived deeper and enchanted the elite of the "Left Hand Path" magic world. Here she got acquainted with the main musicians of the Neo-Folk scene (such as Boyd Rice) and started her own music career.
"Art is not about making nice and cosy things to please people, it's about seeing through the façades and unpleasant things society does not like to see."

Personal circumstances suddenly brought her into a new direction. The result was her acclaimed band Hagalaz' Runedance. Yet, she soon felt cornered and tired by the new-religious focus. She moved on to work with personal expressions, returned as Nebelhexë and then evolved into Andréa Nebel.

A lot has changed over the last few years and Andréa just loves being herself and expressing her inner world: "I realised that personal art comes from within. It speaks to everyone, it goes beyond fasades and ideologies, it just connects to the pain of the heart that everyone knows in their own way. I had to learn early in life to fight, and I'm not afraid to do so. I like to connect to individuals that also have the darkness inside... Thus, writing fiction, mysteries and crime novels, poems and scripts, is my true joy and talent."

Between 2004 and 2007, Andréa expressed herself through paintings as well. She exhibited paintings and photos for the Method Learned in New York. Yet, she decided that this was not something she wanted to pursue further; instead, she wanted to focus fully on combining music, writing and films.

Her latest pursuit is acting. She wants to express herself with roles that she can identify herself with. She already had a meeting with David Lynch and hopes to explore possibilities with other interesting projects.

"I could never be just one thing. I love to play different roles, live out all my different emotions. I need to do multi-art and my mind creates something all the time. Life is about so many different things. Life is about discovery and constant movement. I feel sorry for those that are stuck in their way of being and don't get ahead in life."

"Young artists often start off by hiding behind an image and the need to belong to a scene, because they do not dare to simply be themselves. I was no exception. But then the inner voice gets louder and this is when things become interesting :-)."

Please check out Andréa's drives and inspirations here.

You can also visit Andréa at the following links: