Loopholes is the new project by Andrea Motis.

In this album, Andrea has moved away from her comfort zone, and has chosen to venture into sounds and colors that have always belonged in her musical preferences, such as funk, electric jazz and neo-soul.

Andrea explains that, as well as seeking to create a characteristic sound that would give the album its thread, she has been nourished by her many and diverse inspirations: from the loops of Robert Glasper or the Californian sound of Jack Johnson, to Fats Waller and his “Honeysuckle Rose” (which she cites as a —not so obvious— influence on her composition “Babies”), the Blues or even Latin American folklore , embodied in his personal version of the cumbia “El Pescador”, by José Barros (popularized in the versions of Totó la Momposina and Los Folkloristas).

The album has counted on the collaboration of Christoph Mallinger and Steph Kondert as co-producers, who have added their contributions in the composition and —along with the participating musicians—, in the identity and character of the sound. The album has been recorded together with an exceptional line-up: in addition to the aforementioned Mallinger (guitar, violin and mandolin) and Kondert (electric bass), the group is completed by the Japanese keyboardist, New York based, Big Yuki, Gregory Hutchinson a drums, Zé Luis Nascimento on percussion, and Raja Kassis on guitar.

 

The premiere is scheduled at Sala Apolo, within the Guitar BCN Festival (Barcelona) on May 5 and at the National Music Auditorium (Madrid) on May 8th.

 

Andrea Motis: Upwards

Andrea Motis (Barcelona, May 9, 1995) —singer, composer, trumpeter and saxophonist— is one of the most international artists to arise from the Spanish jazz scene. At the age of eleven she joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, and at fourteen she recorded her first album of standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis, which was followed, in 2012, by Feeling Good.

Following the repercussion of her first albums came her first worldwide release, Emotional Dance (2017) on Impulse! and, later, Do outro lado do azul (2019), on Verve, which made her the first Spanish artist to publish under these labels, both emblematic in the history of jazz.

Throughout her career, Andrea has collaborated with legendary artists such as Quincy Jones, Omara Portuondo, Milton Nascimento, Gil Goldstein, the WDR Big Band, Scott Hamilton or, in 2021, together with Yo-Yo Ma, with whom she performs as a duet “El cant dels ocells”, on the latest album by the remarkable cellist. He has performed concerts in some of the most representative jazz venues on the planet, such as the Tokyo Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, Jazz a Vienne, Festival de Jazz de Barcelona, Blue Note Japan, the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, or the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.