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A new band from Mallorca, started as the new project of British musician Steve Withers (now a resident in Mallorca) who got together with 5 other musicians, most of them already known because of their previous experiences in other bands (starting from the charismatic singer Adela Peraita, very well known for her massive success in the Spanish music scene back in the late 90's, with her former band Sunflowers). Sterlin
made their live debut on January 2004 during the ‘Sant
Sebastiá” festivities in Palma, where they received the
favour of both press and public, and they shared the stage with other
international artists such as Cracker (US), You Am I (Australia) and
Giant Sand (US). Their debut album, “The Loneliest Girl in the
World”, was recorded in Mallorca during November 2004 and then
mixed and mastered in Madrid during January 2005. The commercial
release was April 4 th 2005, through Subterfuge Records, with a
re-release in November 2005 with 5 extra tracks. The band members: Adela Peraita , a very charismatic female singer, is Sterlin 's front woman. Adela's voice, sweet and luminous, is the most in-your-face trait in Sterlin's music, impregnating each passage with beautiful sonority. The drummer is Toni Toledo , who also plays for Sexy Sadie , one of the most famous and widely acclaimed bands in the Spanish independent/alternative scene, having sold thousands of records nation-wide.The rest of Sterlin's band members - guitarist Paco Torres , bass player Juanjo Rosselló and piano man Jaume Amengual - come from important bands in Mallorca's recent music scene; all but one, as there's also a British man playing guitar in the band, Steve Withers , who is in charge of writing Sterlin's everlasting songs. Withers, an experienced musician who after leaving behind his music career in the UK, as a member of bands like The Fits, is now living in Mallorca. His songs have found in Adela the perfect instrument to create a sound that is unique and modern, based on pure classicism, a new adaptation of rock and roll's basic parameters, with elegance and strong personality, opened to experimentation and determined to touch the listener.Sterlin shuffles a contemporaneous sound with an updated, peculiar and disturbing rock and roll flavour from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Loaded with future but with a deep knowledge and absolute respect for the most glorious past of rock music, in Sterlin's music emotion outweighs everything else.Their aim is to move the listener, to reach a point in which the music offers a beautiful and impeccable performance, to make us cry or to comfort misery.Music from the heart that never lets you down, like the best rock, either past or future.
( Honestly, this was not written by the band themselves ) |