Celebrating 50 years of musique concrète in pop, new studio group Les Yper Sound releases Explorations in Drums & Sax on November 4. Enter into the world of intergalactic instrumentals by New York Afrobeat players Miles Arntzen & Jas Walton collaborating with Money Mark & Sinkane.

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Les Yper Sound - Explorations in Drums & Sax

Abya Yala drops on June 21, 2017, the first day of summer.

Comprised of eight original tracks by Combo Chimbita, Abya Yala explores Afro-Latin grooves through salsa, cumbia, porros, champetta, funk and psych rock, and their "Tropical Futurism" sound combines looped bass lines, trippy synth tracks, hard driving beats, and the urgent singing of Carolina Oliveros.

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Combo Chimbita - Abya Yala

“I sing to evoke the past. I live and project the future.” —STEFA*

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’.”

On September 14, 2018, Figure & Ground releases STEFA*’s debut EP Sepalina comprising six original tracks written and performed by STEFA*. An exclusive private vinyl pressing is open for pre-orders until street date and available at http://www.figureandgroundrecords.com/sepalina

Sepalina EP

Sepalina

Trailer for STEFA* - Born With An Extra Rib, out May 3.

U HAVE TO ACT [preview]

How Do I Cope? [preview]

3COSAS! [preview]

negra, revisited [preview]

differ3nt today [preview]

Same Body [preview]

Costillas [preview]

Fascist Love [preview]

Sonambula [preview]

Celebrating 50 years of musique concrète in pop, new studio group Les Yper Sound releases Explorations in Drums & Sax on November 4. Enter into the world of intergalactic instrumentals by New York Afrobeat players Miles Arntzen & Jas Walton collaborating with Money Mark & Sinkane.

Les Yper Sound - August 25th

Les Yper Sound - Return To

Celebrating 50 years of musique concrète in pop, new studio group Les Yper Sound releases Explorations in Drums & Sax on November 4. Enter into the world of intergalactic instrumentals by New York Afrobeat players Miles Arntzen & Jas Walton collaborating with Money Mark & Sinkane.

bit.ly/lesypersound

Explorations in Drums & Sax

Les Yper Sound - Potato Brain

Les Yper Sound - Well-Tempered Water

Les Yper Sound - Ambiguity

Les Yper Sound - Paella Bahia

Les Yper Sound - Woodland

Les Yper Sound - Step Away

Abya Yala drops on June 21, 2017, the first day of summer.

Comprised of eight original tracks by Combo Chimbita, Abya Yala explores Afro-Latin grooves through salsa, cumbia, porros, champetta, funk and psych rock, and their "Tropical Futurism" sound combines looped bass lines, trippy synth tracks, hard driving beats, and the urgent singing of Carolina Oliveros.

La Raiz

Abya Yala drops on June 21, 2017, the first day of summer.

Comprised of eight original tracks by Combo Chimbita, Abya Yala explores Afro-Latin grooves through salsa, cumbia, porros, champetta, funk and psych rock, and their "Tropical Futurism" sound combines looped bass lines, trippy synth tracks, hard driving beats, and the urgent singing of Carolina Oliveros.

PRE-ORDER: figureground.bigcartel.com/product/abya-yala

Congo

Abya Yala drops on June 21, 2017, the first day of summer.

Abya Yala explores Afro-Latin grooves through salsa, cumbia, porros, champetta, funk and psych rock, and their Tropical Futurism sound combines looped bass lines, trippy synth tracks, hard driving beats, and the urgent singing of Carolina Oliveros.

PRE-ORDER @ www.figureandgroundrecords.com/store/combo-chimbita-abya-yala

Ampárame

Cachimba

Pachanga

No Regreso

Dame Tu Mano

Una Casita [Part 2]

negra más linda

WAKE UP

Una Casita [Part 1]

AN ODE TO LOVE IN TRYING TIMES 💘

https://youtu.be/5SqocuzAXh8

“I don’t believe that romantic love is dead in this nihilistic way, but maybe it's not our top priority anymore” says STEFA*, a vocalist, composer and performance-based artist from Queens, NY.
 
On Valentines Day, February 14, 2020, Figure & Ground releases “Fascist Love,” the new video single by Stefa Marin Alarcón. The track was written by Alarcón as STEFA* and produced by longtime collaborator Abraham Cavin Quezada, who actually met on OkCupid years ago: “We were not vibing like that, but musically we were definitely on a similar wave” explains Alarcón.

Directed by Cristobal Guerra Naranjo + STEFA*
Filmed & edited by Cristobal Guerra Naranjo
Filmed at YAH World Studios
Styling: Homosinner
Designers: Voni Studio and Maria Beniaris
Art director: Doménica Garcia
PA: Parisa Rajabian Esfahani

Composed & performed by STEFA*
Produced by Abraham Cavin Quezada
feat. Nicholas Jozwiak on bass
Mixed by Mauricio Escamilla
Mastered by James Oliva at The Music Office

Fascist Love - Single

Fascist Love

STEFA* - Fascist Love

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