SOMMER,STELLA - 13 Kinds Of Happiness (Sealed) (LP)

Downloadcode. Affairs Of The Heart could not be more excited to welcome Stella Sommer to their roster of incredible talent. Stella is the first German artist to be signed to the label. No stranger to her German audience – she is the singer, songwriter and lyricist in DIE HEITERKEIT – Stella will no doubt win over international crowds soon with her remarkable voice, idiosyncratic yet immediately appealing approach to songwriting and lyrics and unrivaled charme. 13 Kinds of Happiness, is Stella Sommer’s debut solo album. The songs on the album burst with confidence and are riddled with doubt, range between happiness and loneliness, dystopian soundscapes and simple folk tunes and are again and maybe more so than ever a stunning display of her incredible abilities as a songwriter and lyricist. Also she is singing in English for the first time. While the songs and vision are all her own, the album is a collaboration of sorts between members of the bands DIE HEITERKEIT and MESSER. The album features appearances by fellow DIE HEITERKEIT members Hanitra Wagner and Philipp Wulf, Pola Lia Schulten (ZUCKER) as well as MESSER's Pogo McCartney, who also recorded the album, and Dirk Von Lowtzow, lead singer of German top selling band TOCOTRONIC. Stella Sommer has built quite a reputation as the singer and songwriter of German band DIE HEITERKEIT. Their latest and critically acclaimed third album Pop & Tod I+II was featured among Spiegel Online's best albums of 2016. Despite the many setbacks and obstacles they were met with in the immediate run-up to the festival - they were denied entry into the US, a blizzard struck and flights got cancelled -, they did manage to make their first international appearance last year at SXSW