| Rio en Medio | |
| Birth Name: | Danielle Stech-Homsy |
| Birth Place: | New Mexico |
| Landscape: | yes |
| Background: | person |
| Origin: | Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
| Genre: | New Weird America Freak folk |
| Years Active: | 2007–2015 |
| Label: | Gnomonsong, Manimal Vinyl, Womens Work Recordings |
Danielle Stech-Homsy, known by her pseudonym Rio en Medio (Spanish for river in between), is an American singer and baritone ukulelist.
Stech-Homsy was born in New Mexico, and was raised in California and Arizona.[1] Later, she moved to Brooklyn.[2] She began to perform and record original compositions, eventually recording The Bride of Dynamite (originally titled A Bride's Guide to Waiting Music).[3] A friend passed the record to Devendra Banhart who soon requested to release it on his label (Gnomonsong). Since her debut release in early 2007, Stech-Homsy has worked with artists such as Grizzly Bear, CocoRosie, Brightblack Morning Light, Vetiver, Patrick Wolf, Vashti Bunyan, Tim Fite and Banhart.[4]
In 2008, Stech-Homsy recorded a cover of "Pictures of You" by The Cure for .[5]
Rio en Medio's third album, Peace Sequence, was released in 2013 on the label Womens Work Recordings.[6]
Overall, Stech-Homsy's music falls into the freak folk genre.[7] Writing for Pitchfork, Matthew Murphy described The Bride of Dynamite as "ethereal" with "delicate" vocals, but concluded it was overall "halting, hesitant baby steps" for Stech-Homsy.[8] Later, Joshua Klein wrote that her second album, Frontier, is "indulgent and confounding" and "part cosmic fun house, part haunted house".[9]