Where's Louie

Judit Fritz and Stefan Axelsen met eight years ago. During a discussion about artistic references, the idea emerged to combine Stefan’s music with Judit’s poetry. At that point Stefan had a sketch of a song that Judit believed was too good to leave unfinished. A scenario in text started to grow, centred around a psychiatric commitment, mistakenly interpreted as a retreat weekend. A main character was taking shape too, along with her companion Louie. Eventually the project was put on hold, as both Judit and Stefan were working on many other things of their own. The ideas around “Where’s Louie” were always present, though, and it was always certain that the project would eventually happen.

During the long pause Stefan kept creating on his own, and it was finally decided that four songs sharing a cinematic soundscape would be completed. With Judit’s and Stefan’s mutual references from film and poetry, the music is to be seen as a small portion of a greater story about dystopian love, madness and confusion.

“Where’s Louie” was made within a small, intimate group of people who often exchange musical and technical favours. Besides Judit and Stefan, the music features Erik Fritz on drums and percussion, Eskil Janson as recording engineer, co-producer and choir, and Stina Janson on choir.

The first of the four songs is “Chanel No5”.