Artist: Stellamara
Genre(s):
New Age
Ethnic
Discography:
The Seven Valleys
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Star Of The Sea
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Middle Eastern music of the 13th to 15th centuries serves as a springboard for the improvisations of San Francisco-based Stellamara. The vision of vocaliser, percussionist, hammered dulcimer player, recording applied scientist, and producer Sonja Drakulich, and dulcimer player Jeffrey Stott, the group was called, "the missing link between goth and new historic period" by alt-rock magazine, Oculus. While Rhythm described the chemical group as "a lackadaisical, ethereal mix in, tackling reliable and undeservedly unexposed Galician, Parisian, Judeo-Spanish, and Croatian songs," Pulse focused on Drakulich's vocals, composition, "within her voice, often superimposed in chorus line, she synthesizes Bulgarian, Middle Eastern, and Gregorian intonate styles, entwining them around a pleximetry bed of frame drums, darbukas, and dumbeks." Taking their nominate from the Latin word frank Philip Stella, substance "star," and the Galician word mara, substance "sea," Stellamara was formed by Drakulich and Stott in 1994. rakulich, world Health Organization officially studied greco-Roman Indian, Persian, Turkish, and Balkan singing, antecedently performed with a series of Bulgarian and Turkish bands. A maestro of linguistics, Drakulich sings in a variety of languages from the Middle Ages. Stellamara's sound was expanded with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Gari Hegedus and percussionist Susu Pampanin. Hegedus, world Health Organization plays oud, fiddle, viola, saz, sarod, sitar, yayli tambur, and mandocello, antecedently studied early European, Celtic, and Bretagne music. Pampanin is the daughter of a terpsichorean.
