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 Sister Soleil plays a melodious brand of techno-pop that's almost impossible not to dance to. The music is centered around the vocals of lead singer and songwriter Stella Katsoudas (who's signed a major label deal with Universal/MCA). After a number of miss-starts (Katsoudas once took out an ad in Crain's Chicago Business looking for investors in merchandise which eventually turned out to be the demo EP of Drown Me in You), she's got a new record, Soularium, recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, with the big man even adding vocals on one track), and you can catch a small blurb about her in the March '98 Playboy (sorry, no nude photos). The group has been recording a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "A Warm Place" (with NIN's Trent Reznor) which will appear on the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Stigmata. Stella's lovely voice ranges between the extremes of angelic rapture and embittered recrimination. Though she has great complexity and depth to her singing, she never veers off into self-indulgent contrivance. The vocals remain simply elegant and almost ghostly. Her style has been compared to Bjork and Dolores O'Riordan (of Cranberries fame), but those comparisons fall short somehow.  Stella has been an important background figure on the Chicago music scene for the past few years. She has recorded vocals for such local and national bands as Chemlab, 16 Volt, Acumen Nation, Ministry and Die Warzau. With the coming of Sister Soleil, Stella has moved into the spotlight and has had an enormous amount of success. Look for big things from this little girl.
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