MOSTECELO

Mostecelo is the darkly comic, and often serious, cross cultural musical project of J. Rebeca Suarez. Subtly using black humour, she sets biting lyrics to music that is modern, yet classicly rich. She hauntingly chronicles all the horrible, absurd, and wonderful things that happen in life with an ironic sense of comfort.

Born in Kentucky, Suarez was raised by her Venezuelan mother and musician stepfather from Idaho, where she grew up. Having artists and musicians on both sides of her family, she was constantly influenced and sometimes bombarded with cultural contradictions and crises of identity. She first realized she wanted to be a musician at the age of 8 when she saw a picture of Stewart Copeland behind a drumset and thought it was the coolest thing she’d ever seen.

Ever since, she’s been on a spastic, moody musical pursuit that has led her through various studies, bands, performance groups… and finally to Mostecelo, her first solo project. She has studied music and performed throughout various parts of the United States, South America, Africa and Europe.

Her influences include Skip James, Queen, David Bowie and Chopin, but her style is clearly unique. While each of her songs explores a new world, it is her voice that threads her body of work together. Her music breathes with a controlled temper and calming ease that defies the pervasive sense of loss and misunderstanding embedded in her words. It is music that holds you.

http://mostecelo.bandcamp.com/

Boise, Idaho, 83702

Filed Under: Acoustic / Folk, Bands, Experimental, Other, Rock / Alternative