Multimedia vocalist/composer Costanza will unveil her first full length album June 17th, 2008.

The album, entitled ‘Sonic Diary’, will feature brand new, never heard before compositions, surprising cover tracks from Johnny Cash, Fugazi and Italian superstar Rino Gaetano, as well as an assortment of previously unreleased tracks and fan favorites from the her 2006 EP, ‘ZerOKilled’.

Recorded and produced exclusively by Costanza at her “ZerOKilled Lab” in Dumbo, Brooklyn, the album plays like a modern day mixtape. Each song stands alone as a potential single or as an atmospheric track ideal for use in TV, film or commercial.

Included are hit songs that have appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The L Word. Also included are knockout reinterpretations of Johnny Cash and Fugazi. “These songs are emotional pages of my sonic diary…” she says, “inspired by special creatures and people, like Cash and Ian Mac Kaye, that make me dream and believe in dreams…”

Costanza burst onto the scene in 2003 as the featured vocalist on superstar Tricky’s album ‘Vunerable’. On ‘Sonic Diary’ Costanza writes songs that tackle a variety of international societal issues that weigh heavily on her mind from immigration (Just Another Alien), to women’s rights (Burqa, Back Into My Mother’s Womb), to the use/abuse of medicine (Medicine) and, on a more local level, a song dedicated to Sean Bell, the young man shot to death in Queens, NY by police officers in late 2006 (50 Bullets).

A special bonus track on the CD, “Coming Home,” is an epic 14 minute piece that takes the listener on a journey unlike any other on the album. “Coming Home” illustrates Costanza’s ability to score large sections of visual space and marks a departure from her usual composition style. The track also features a guest turn by Elyas Khan (Nervous Cabaret).

‘Sonic Diary’ marks the first of three scheduled releases for Costanza in 2008. This summer will see an EP of minimal techno/electro songs with frequent collaborator (and co-instrumentalist on “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”) Marco Messina under the alterego bRainDogs. Then, this fall, Costanza will unveil her first full length album of all new material, ‘Make Me Electric’.

Sonic Diary Tracklist:

1 Just Another Alien
2 I’ve Been Waiting for You
3 I Am Ready
4 Babilon Dream
5 God’s Gonna Cut You Down (Johnny Cash)
6 50 Bullets Fired In Queens
7 Burqa
8 In the Sun
9 Where Have You Been
10 I Tuoi Occhi Sono Pieni Di Sale (Rino Gaetano)
11 Back Into My Mother’s Womb
12 Promises (Fugazi)
13 Medicine
14 Silence

Bonus Track
Coming Home

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