Stellafly


Stellafly was the second full-length album to be released by Californian hip hop musician Ithaka.

History

It was written and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1997, and is based upon his own personal adventures in Western Europe. Lyrically the record covers many diverse topics such as Substance abuse, Big wave surfing, and Ghosts.
Although the album is the English language, it was nominated for four Blitz Premios and in 1997 received top honours in the respected Portuguese newspaper Jornal Público for "Best Song" Seabra Is Mad, "Best Video", "Artist Of The Year" and "Album Of The Year".
Songs from this album later appeared on the hit 2007 Xbox 360 basketball game, "NBA 2K7" from the NBA 2K and on the soundtrack for the American surfing movie "Second Thoughts", winner of the 2004 Surfer Reader's Poll Award for "Best Video".
The album was produced by Joe Fossard and consists of seventeen tracks which feature many guests performers such as British guitarist and co-producer Ewan Butler, singer Marta Dias, rapper Ace, rapper X-Sista, singer Hi-Fi Jô, singer Mimi and others from Portugal and beyond.
Although Ithaka is an American citizen of Greek origins, because Stellafly was made in Portugal and utilized many Portuguese guest artists, it is often included in the genre of music known as Hip hop Tuga along with artists such as General D, Boss AC, etc.

Cover photograph

The album's original cover image was created by Ithaka Darin Pappas himself; a photograph of a woman wearing a chicken wire swimsuit in front of the sculpture from his body of artwork called, The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard.

Track listing