Rio en Medio

NEWS******************************************************** ************** Rio en Medio's got a new album! FRONTIER will be released in September on Manimal Vinyl (manimalvinyl.com). It will be available in beautiful heavy vinyl AND for delightfully instantaneous digital download. Happily, no ugly, wasteful jewel-cased cds will be produced BUT a limited number of handmade, letterpressed discs with booklets will likely be available at shows only. ************************************************************ **************** Rio en Medio is the musical adventure of Brooklyn-based singer/ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy. A New Mexico native, Danielle was born into visions and questions. With a gay Syrian painter and a Ukrainian flamenco dancer for parents, peculiar circumstance and mysterious blessings were the norm, laying the foundation for the unusual artistic expression that would eventually come. Danielle's songwriting reflects a vast scope of influence from techno to traditional folk to early and contemporary classical, drawing on literature as well as music, from ancient to avant, and incorporating elements of chance. Her crystalline vocals, delicately strummed baritone ukulele and found sonic elements evoke the strange delight of a dream where the dreamer's authority is always in question. At its best, the gentle, the fearful, the sorrowful, the formidable, the entranced and the rambunctious collide to create a sound that is as responsive as it is moving. In her own words, it is music that wants to listen as much as be heard. Danielle has performed with a wide variety of outstanding artists including Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Grizzly Bear, Tim Fite, Patrick Wolf, Brightblack Morning Light and Vashti Bunyan. Her debut album, The Bride of Dynamite (released on Devendra Banhart's Gnomonsong label) is an intricate collage of layered vocals, delicately plucked ukulele, ghostly samples and gritty, deconstructed electronics. Special touches were contributed to some tunes by Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Sierra Casady (CocoRosie), Tim Fite and David Coulter among others.