Joanna Sternberg presents new single "Mountain High"

Following on from the lead single "I've Got Me", Sternberg returns with new track "Mountain High".

The accompanying lyric video was illustrated by Sternberg. “I wrote this song when I was trying to do the following things all at once in NYC:,” explains Sternberg, “Be a freelance visual artist, be a freelance double bassist, be a singer, be a songwriter, babysit, work at elementary schools teaching comics, and teach private lessons for songwriting, piano and double bass. The song is about being so busy and so tired while schlepping around NYC and anxiously obsessively ruminating!”

Sternberg wrote the songs for I’ve Got Me on the 40th floor of the middle income artists-only residency within the towers of Manhattan Plaza, which has previously been home to Charles Mingus, Tennessee Williams, Alicia Keys.

Working with producer Matt Sweeney and engineer Daniel Schlett at Brooklyn’s Strange Weather Studios, I’ve Got Me was recorded and mixed over six days of intense sessions during the summer of 2022. Sternberg plays all instruments on the record and it's their recorded debut as a string arranger, drummer and electric guitarist.

Of the album, Sternberg says: “I love people, I love to make people laugh, I love to make them feel better.” Joanna says, “Anytime someone reaches out and tells me my music helped them, my dream comes true.”