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Sepalina

by STEFA*

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WAKE UP 03:19
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Sepalina 03:55
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Volver 05:50

about

Preview the EP: www.figureandgroundrecords.com/sepalina

“Music to listen to while everything is burning down,” is how STEFA* describes her debut EP Sepalina. “To create my own sonic landscapes is to build the world I can exist in wholly.” A vocal artist born, raised and currently living in Queens, she constructs gorgeous and densely layered vocal music with traces of choral music, classical minimalism, and electronic pop.

Inspired by STEFA*’s family and secrets that are still only partially revealed, Sepalina tells the tale of a native alien and how she came to inhabit this planet, washed up on shore in the present, stripped of her memories and her language. “My mother recently uncovered things about my grandmother’s life that has shocked the entire family – she’s become this mystery character who can't speak for herself because she’s gone, and so everyone is trying to piece together her story. I was told my indigenous side comes from her, so I started researching the tribe she was from, the Emberá-Chamí.”

She describes: “I felt I had to go back in time in order to begin to understand my present. I started looking up anything I could find online of the Emberá people — chants, songs — I found one and tried transcribing what they were singing, listening and writing down whatever vowel sounds and phrases I could hear forming – and so I transcribed ‘Sepalina’.”

credits

released September 14, 2018

All tracks composed and performed by STEFA*
“Sepalina” co-produced by mowri
"Volver" produced by Abraham Cavin Quezada
All others produced by STEFA*
“Una Casita" intro adapted from Gabriela Espinosa's original version
Recorded in a bedroom in Queens, a cottage in Kingston & a storefront in Brooklyn
Mixed by Mauricio Escamilla
Percussion by Mauricio Escamilla
“Wake Up" & "Una Casita" (Parts 1 & 2) engineered by Lily Wen
Jay Ghandi on bansuri flute
Mastered by Jamal Ruhe
Photos by Adriana Monsalve
Jacket design by Secret Riso Club
Thanks to mi madre, mis ancestras, Stephanie Orentas & Lily Wen
© 2018 Figure & Ground

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STEFA* New York, New York

sonic respites for diasporic and dysphoric longings.

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