Pre-order of Born With An Extra Rib. You get 4 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment itâs released.
âWhat myths do we inherit that keep us away from ourselves?â asks STEFA*, the self-proclaimed âgenderlessâ and âgenrelessâ 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 âbecause 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.â Written over the course of nine years, stefa describes âall the versions of myself that Iâve been while writing all of these songs - I feel like a completely different person. Thereâs a lot of unlearning in this journey - still things that Iâm trying to practice unlearning.â
Following their debut EP Sepalina (2018), which NPR called âgorgeous and hypnotic,â stefaâs 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.
âThe questions that I was asking myself were coming from a place of rage and I wanted it to feel that way,â describes STEFA*. âI wanted it to feel very grand and was thinking about scale. I was thinking about âCostillasâ 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.â
âWhile 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,â says stefa.
Recorded by Lily Wen
Drums recorded at Synthia Studio (tracks 1, 4, 7-8)
âFascist Loveâ 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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