Born With An Extra Rib

by STEFA*

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releases May 3, 2024

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1.	Sonambula
2.	Fascist Love 03:41	buy track
3.	Costillas 02:33	buy track
4.	Same Body
5.	differ3nt today
6.	negra, revisited
7.	3COSAS! 02:26 video	buy track
8.	How Do I Cope? 02:32	buy track
9.	U HAVE TO ACT

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🎟️ ALBUM PRE-ORDERS INCLUDE A PERSONALIZED LINK TO STREAM THE 40-MINUTE FILM, Born With An Extra Rib: The Film (2024) FOR ONE WEEK 🎥

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“What myths do we inherit that keep us away from ourselves?” asks STEFA*, the self-proclaimed “genderless” and “genreless” vocalist, composer, educator and multimedia performance artist.

Born and raised in Queens to Colombian immigrants, STEFA* takes on this question through their amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical maximalism to reconsider their own origin stories “because so many of those were lost along the way of colonization. Born With An Extra Rib was me creating a story of myself and of my own becoming.” Written over the course of nine years, stefa describes “all the versions of myself that I’ve been while writing all of these songs - I feel like a completely different person. There’s a lot of unlearning in this journey - still things that I’m trying to practice unlearning.”

Following their debut EP Sepalina (2018), which NPR called “gorgeous and hypnotic,” stefa’s forthcoming debut album Born With An Extra Rib expands in scale and scope, being released alongside a ritual performance film that they created as Artist-In-Residence at The Kitchen.

“The questions that I was asking myself were coming from a place of rage and I wanted it to feel that way,” describes STEFA*. “I wanted it to feel very grand and was thinking about scale. I was thinking about ‘Costillas’ almost as a film and what it would look like on screen, and that then went back to what it was going to sound like. I was thinking about the voice and taking up space and also using my voice in a different way, thinking about opera and these bigger vocal pieces.”

“While playing my first EP Sepalina throughout the years and wanting to build a live world beyond - at times - just me and my looper - I was able to create more community musically and work with more people. So a lot of these songs might have started with a looper, but then they grew to become almost new versions,” says stefa.

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releases May 3, 2024

All tracks composed and performed by STEFA*

Tracks 2 & 5 produced by Abraham Cavin Quezada
Track 7 produced by José Benjamín Escobar
All others produced by stefa marin alarcón & Lily Wen

Nick Jozwiak - bass
Prince of Queens - synth
Miles Francis - drums (tracks 1, 3-4, 7-9)
Puck - rhodes (track 4)
Stuart Bogie - flute (track 7)
Dilemastronauta - drums (track 1)
mowri - drums (tracks 6 -7)
S T A R R Busby - vocals (track 9)
GypjaQ Kai - vocals (track 9)
José Benjamín Escobar - synth (track 9)

Recorded by Lily Wen
Drums recorded at Synthia Studio (tracks 1, 4, 7-8)
“Fascist Love” mixed by mowri
Tracks 1, 4 & 9 mixed by Lily Wen
All others mixed by Eli Crews

Tracks 1, 6, 8 & 9 mastered by Jamal Ruhe
All others mastered by Sarah Register

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