Undersea is the third album from Danish Singer and Songwriter Ida Wenøe, which, written in solitude in two weary old summer houses on the North Sea coast of Jutland, she describes as being “about all those emotions your try to bury deep, that always find their way to the surface whether you like it or not”. In his Folk Radio review, Mike Davies described it as “musical Reiki for the soul”.
Watch the accompanying video for the album track Mourning Time below.
The video was created and performed by Emilie Kilkowska Yssing, a multiple-art performer from Denmark, and filmed from dawn on a Sunday in September at ‘Amager Fælled’ and ‘Kalvebod Fælled’, east of Copenhagen. Emilie hears Ida’s songs as melancholic angels’ music, which creates a world where vulnerability is a strength and where sensitivity provides the space to be present and aware.
Emilie adds:
“The video is trying to show how sorrow wanders off into the woods, searching, warm and vulnerable, for it to develop into something new. The video is my interpretation of the song, not necessarily a direct picture of it. In grief, sorrow or ‘mourning time’ we are vulnerable and wanting it to stop. But if we accept it, will it then disappear and develop into something new?”
Both the song and video are sublime and achingly beautiful.
Video credits:
Created and performed by Emilie Kilkowska Yssing
Camera Work: Christina Carlsen
General assistance: Nikolaj Dragsbæk
The album was produced by Ida, mixed by Dennis Ahlgren (Tina Dico, Teitur) and mastered by Icelandic wizard Sigurdor Gudmundsson. Ida’s personal take on contemporary folk-noir blends beautifully with more traditional influences, augmented with the personality of recorded contributions from Scottish-born musicians Hal Parfitt-Murray (strings) and Samantha Whates (flute, backing vocals).
Order Undersea (Digital/Vinyl): https://idawenoe.bandcamp.com/album/undersea
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