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Artist
Stina Stjern
12+ albums
indie folkfolkfemale vocalistsindieunder 2000 listeners
about
Norwegian artist Stina Stjern wrote most of her new album when she lived in Brooklyn, New York. The album is called “Days Like Waves”, and even though this stands out as her debut album, Stina’s experience from Quintrophenia, Supervixen and art projects such as Little Sister makes it right to say that this is definitely not her debut as an artist. Stina Stjern (“Stjern” is her Grandmother’s maiden name) moved to Copenhagen with a jazz diploma in her back pocket, as well as one full-length with Quintrophenia and another full-length with Supervixen. In Copenhagen her musical network was practically absent. But sometimes it is a good thing to be a musical hermit. And in the blink of an eye, standing on her own feet and being a sucker for good melodies, the musical spree of Stina Stjern was born. After a year and a half in Copenhagen Stina packed up to move again, this time to Brooklyn, New York. The idea with the journey was to write material for her upcoming album in a new setting devoid of distractions. She settled into an apartment in Bushwick, commonly referred to by locals as one of the two “hipster condos” on McKibbin Street (look it up on Wikipedia under “248 McKibbin”), just a stone’s throw away from where Jay-Z grew up. Stina actually used to jog the very same street where the video for “Hard Knock Life” got filmed– kind of worth mentioning since, as all other girls her age, Stina grew up loving the musical of which the song has its origin. And it was in this mixture
