Cover Of "Stellafly" - Ithaka's 2nd Album

Album art for Ithaka's 2nd album 

called Stellafly. Released in 1997.

The photograph depicts a woman 

in a chicken wire swimsuit in front of the sculpture entitled Stellafly by Ithaka

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellafly

Stellafly^[3] was the second album to be released by Californian hip hop lyricist, vocalist and contemporary artist, Ithaka (musician).^[4]

It was written and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1997, (where Ithaka lived and worked between 1992 and 1998) and is based upon his own personal adventures in Western Europe. Lyrically the record covers many diverse topics such asSubstance abuse, Big wave surfing, and Ghosts.

Although the album is the English language, it was nominated for four Blitz Premios (The Portuguese version of The Grammy Awards) and in 1997 received top honors in the respected Portuguese newspaper Jornal Público (Portugal) for "Best Song" Seabra Is Mad, "Best Video"(Seabra Is Mad), "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 (series) and on the soundtrack for the American surfing movie "Second Thoughts", winner of the 2004 Surfer (magazine) Reader's Poll Award for "Best Video".

Hip Hop artist, Ithaka in Sintra, Portugal 2005

Poet, contemporary artist and hip hop vocalist, 

Ithaka in Sintra, Portugal 2005

Photographed by: Livia Brisa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_(musician)

In Lisbon he recorded his first two hip hop albums, Flowers And The Color Of Paint and Stellafly. His song, Escape From The City Of Angels appeared on the soundtrack for Columbia Pictures' feature release, The Replacement Killers.^[1] Using his alter-ego name of Korvorão (the raven-shark) sometimes spelled Korvowrong or Korvorowng, Ithaka was also the lyricist/vocalist on the track "So Get Up" by Underground Sound Of Lisbon.

During his active years in Portugal, the artist's projects were nominated for a total of nine Blitz Awards (the Portuguese equivalent of The Grammy Awards) including; Best Album (for "Flowers And The Color Of Paint" in 1995 ^[2] and Stellafly in 1997) and Best Male Vocalist (in 1995 & 1997). In addition, the prestigious national newspaper, Publico awarded his 1997 release Stellafly as "Album Of The Year" and considered his most popular song from that record Seabra Is Mad as both the "Song Of The Year" and "Video Of The Year". In an end of the decade retrospective article about Portuguese music, Publico also cited his debut release "Flowers And The Color Of Paint" as one of the country's Ten Most Influential Albums Of The 1990's.

In 1994, the international hit "So Get Up" that Ithaka wrote the lyrics for and vocalized (in participation with Underground Sound Of Lisbon) was nominated for "Song Of The Year" at that year's Blitz Awards, and later climbed to 8th Place on Billboard's U.K. Independent Dance Charts (and 52nd on Billboard's U.S. independent Dance Charts).

In 1998, after over six years in Portugal, Ithaka returned back to California where he recorded his third album called Somewhere South Of Somalia with producer Conley Abrams III. The lyrics from this album were written on a two month journey into East Africa.^[3] Later Ithaka relocated his base to Rio de Janeiro where he recorded two more albums, Recorded In Rio and Saltwater Nomad. In 2007, he briefly returned to Portugal to record with former Underground Sound of Lisbon member DJ Vibe, providing vocals and lyrics for the track "You".

Ithaka "Fishdaddy Flashbacks"

                Cover of Ithaka's 2011 release 
                      "Fishdaddy Flashbacks" 
                                           (on SweatlodgeRecords).

                                                             Photograph by Nancy Geringer.

"LURE # 3" by Ithaka (a sculpture from the project, The reincarnation Of A Surfboard)

This is Lure #3 (from the Lure series) at an exhibit in Portugal.

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