A descendant from a long line of musicians, stretching from the underground concert halls of apartheid South Africa, Stella Explorer draws from her lineage, infusing her twilight torch songs with rhythms and arrangements indebted to the jazz music played in former shirt factories and on the airwaves of Radio Freedom. Stella produces and writes all of her own music, executing her creative vision with pinpoint precision. She’s worked with the likes of DJ Seinfeld, providing lyrics to the album standout track “She Loves Me”, Stella’s work thrives in those in-betweens, feeding on the still smouldering coals of fires long forgotten.