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".
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