Up and Away, by Σtella

Up and Away

by Σtella

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huehn It's a great album with some highlights and it was a great pleasure to hear it while a live gig in Mainz germany, intimate and honeyed. We love it!

wilall138 God I love this album!! Ok it helps that I’m Hellenic 👊🏻🇬🇷🏛 Favorite track: Manéros.

jaxers I LOVE this perfect pop record. The homages to the bazouki and other taverna style Greek folk pop flourishes manage to walk the line between tongue in cheek and lovingly rendered integration. While Stella's record would have been terrific even without these things - a wonderfully tracked and catchy collection of thoughtful indie pop - these twists put the record over the edge into a category above.

placebo_me_please It’s like a dream. At times it even feels like an epic voyage across the Mediterranean isles. And the bouzouki adds tremendous flair too. I just can’t get over the sound they’ve created! Favorite track: Another Nation.

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1.	Up and Away 03:11 video	lyrics	buy track
i’ve been caught in your world suddenly and i want to deliver up up and away we go time to make it alone time to see all that shines and I shiver up up and away we go the way to my heart the way to my heart the way to my heart the way to my heart take over my mind i can rest it’s yours to keep it for ever up up and away we go and the people you meet on the streets get to sing it together up up and away we go the way to my heart the way to my heart the way to my heart the way to my heart …for a minute or an hour come to me come to me for a minute… the way to my heart the way to my heart the way to my heart the way to my heart
2.	Nomad 03:44 video	lyrics	buy track
…the places the seven-day races around you like a nomad now you feel all these things and i want you if there was something i could do for you i swear i would’ve i would’ve battle the monsters in your head the nightmares of your childhood …what you want stick your hand in the sand and i’ll find you like a nomad now you feel all these things and i want you if there was something i could do for you i swear i would’ve i would’ve battle the monsters in your head the nightmares of your childhood and everything else… if there was something i could do for you i swear i would’ve i would’ve battle the monsters in your head the nightmares of your childhood
3.	Manéros 02:42	info	buy track
4.	Charmed 02:38 video	lyrics	buy track
…shoop shoop… tell me do you think of me like i think of you night after night nothing to do no-one to fight and now you’re gone far away far away if you could would you stay would you stay …with me …shoop shoop… tell me my love do you feel right do you feel charmed cos now you’re gone far away far away if you could would you stay would you stay …with me
5.	Another Nation 02:43	lyrics	buy track
i’m like a new edition i got fed up with my other version ooo let the tables turn high let the mothers and the fathers get by i’m on a new direction gonna work it in another nation ooo show me how you get by do you swing, do you often get high run like a pink flamingo you’re familiar with some prison lingo tell all your friends about it now you know this is the time to ride it fool, i was there before you i’m in a position to ignore you i’m on a new direction gonna work it in another nation
6.	Black and White 02:18	lyrics	buy track
you took my picture in black and white you show it to your friends (to your friends) we dance as strangers we drink the wine so now it all depends (all depends) ooo i don’t understand you (understand) ooo i don’t understand you (understand) infatuated with what you have it’s not mine anymore (anymore) you redirected you changed your mind but i don’t care no more (care no more) ooo i don’t understand you (understand) ooo i don’t understand you (understand)
7.	Titanic 03:06	lyrics	buy track
getting on a boat for a journey where to no-one knows pick a class, they’re very familiar with how character grows caroline, margaret, laura mae, susan j john borie, julius, frederick, mrs kate made it to the shore like a champion for once in my life looking for my mom and my papa but they’re nowhere in sight caroline, margaret, laura mae, susan j john borie, julius, frederick, mrs kate
8.	The Truth Is 03:37 video	lyrics	buy track
…every night ooo… the truth is that i feel alright but still i miss you every night ooo… the truth is that i feel alright but still i miss you every night ooo… …every night… i woke today and didn’t have a clue why we’re apart and so untrue i woke today and didn’t have a clue why we’re apart and so untrue if circumstances didn’t treat us right it’s now the time to realise the truth is that i feel alright but still i miss you every night ooo…
9.	Who Cares 03:26	lyrics	buy track
you fight right and make a stand you build trees so you can hang who cares who cares who cares who cares… direction was not your game it’s better without the fame who cares who cares who cares who cares… …in a bottle we all fell…
10.	Is It Over 03:10	lyrics	buy track
is it over yet and do i wanna know from the time we met i wanted to let you go is it over now then why do i feel it still can you tell me how how am i gonna leave is it over… and if people ask how is it possible fell out of love so fast like a stone you throw is it over now do i feel it still can you tell me how how i never wanna leave

about

Σtella makes her Sub Pop debut with the mesmerizing Up and Away, an old-school pop paean to the pangs and raptures of love. From the Greek folk-inflected get-go, we’re swept up in Σtella’s world – and it’s quite the captivating place to be.

The singer-songwriter joined forces with artist and producer Tom Calvert (aka Redinho), and it was a match made in Athens; the results are heavenly. Tom caught one of Σtella’s gigs on a visit to the city. He reached out, they started hanging out, and the pair soon clicked creatively. Both mention chemistry when asked about their collaboration and it’s clear, from what we hear, they had it in spades. The meld is seamless.

Σtella’s songs have always riffed on American and Greek mid-century pop but Up and Away doubles down on the vintage aesthetic. Tom says he styled the record “as if it was a rare gem from the ’60s found in a box of records in Athens,” and Σtella notes she was ready for a more “deeply Greek touch – it felt comfortable and right, smoothly fusing with the pop.” The bouzouki appears on a full five tracks played by Christos Skondras who, she says, “was brilliant at improvising,” while Sofia Labropoulou on the kanun “brought an insane amount of dreaminess to the last two songs. Having these amazing musicians play for Up and Away – I couldn’t be more grateful.”

While not exclusively a confessional artist, Σtella is always intimate – when she sings, it’s personal. She says she writes, “about things I feel passion for. Stories about me, about others, about all that’s there in love and war. ”While she won’t be drawn out on more private inspirations for this album (“There were one or two interesting things going on in my life, but we won’t be going into those…”), Σtella will say she was, “in a very emotional state at the time, which came through in the lyrics and vocals.” And it’s true, her honeyed voice – layered in those unmistakable harmonies of hers – thrillingly runs the gamut from tender to terse, by turns bracing and smitten, aching and forlorn.

But it’s the lyrics that feel key. Across her output, Σtella has proven herself a strong storyteller, and Up and Away is no exception (the guise of the medieval bard she assumes on the cover is telling). Past releases have been studded with gem-like vignettes – a diverse array of stories set tightly together to form non-linear narratives unified by emotion. Her latest feels singular in that it seems to trace a longer-form tale across songs, with each track escalating the record’s erotic arc. Rollicking album opener “Up and Away” launches us headlong into an all-consuming affair. She’s caught, she shivers, thrilled by a new beginning, the sweetness of her vocals offset by vertiginous, blistering blasts of bouzouki. And so the sensual scene is set.

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Σtella Αθήνα, Greece

Hailing from Athens, Greece, Σtella has proven herself a strong storyteller, writing old-school pop paeans to the pangs and raptures of love.

discography

Girl Supreme

Aug 2023
Up and Away

Jun 2022
Charmed

Mar 2022
The Break

Jan 2020
The Race

Jun 2019
Samba

Apr 2019
Paulina's Dance

May 2017
Works For You

Feb 2017
Σtella

Feb 2015

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