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\\u03a3tella - "Another Nation"from the 2022 album Up and Away on Sub Pop.

Greek artist\\xa0Stella Chronopoulou (who records as\\xa0\\u03a3tella, with a sigma) makes her Sub Pop Records debut with a collection of dreamy electro-pop influenced by her family\'s music collection of\\xa0Greek folk-pop from the\\xa0\\u201860s and \\u201870s.

\\u201cGrowing up I loved playing \\u2018Sousourada\\u2019 by Nikos Gounaris on my grandfather\\u2019s old gramophone. I was thrilled by Greek folk-pop artists like Grigoris Bithikotsis and the great Tzeni Vanou, as well as international artists like Tony Motolla and Julio Inglesias,\\u201d she says in a press statement; \\u201cLiving in a close-knit community by the mountains and sea, I vaguely recall being woken by neighbouring shepherds\\u2019 sheep bells\\u2026 everything back then was so pure and innocent!\\u201d

For her first LP, she\\xa0teamed up with fellow Greek artist and producer Tom Calvert (aka Redinho). "Tom had a similar desire of creating a vintage sound," she continues. "Instantly stars aligned; I was time-traveling, singing songs as The Chiffons or The Crystals would.\\u201d

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