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Loopholes is the new project by Andrea Motis. The album finds Andrea as she moves away from her comfort zones, and chooses to venture into sounds and colours 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.