Ida Wenøe, Samantha Whates - Loopy & Esther (2024) [Hi-Res]

Expanding on a creative collaboration honed on stage and refined in their 2022 Turn EP, Samantha Whates and Ida Wenøe have again joined forces to create, write and produce together. The result is Loopy & Esther – a deft collage of impressions, magic, love and friendship, nature and supermoons, haunted by the throughline of loss, of change, the many meandering pathways our lives become.

Like many of the best things in life, the LP was inspired by a canoe trip in Denmark. Named after their matching yellow pet birds the pair had as children, Loopy & Esther is a collection of songs and vignettes inspired by cycling seasons, circles of life and symbols of magic, using sounds from their field trip and songs written together at Ida’s home in Copenhagen. You’ll discover a world where bonfires scent the breeze and wind moves the trees. Produced together and long distance between Copenhagen and Margate in their home studios, producing a musical journey populated by lily pads, bulrushes, prepared piano, the closest harmonies, birds and frogs.

Tracklist:
1 Tent Zippers
2 Black Cat
3 Bless the Telephone
4 Little Bird
5 Warning Song
6 Sammy
7 Lily Pad Blues
8 Döden Tänkte Jag Mig Sä
9 Velvet Heart