New Tango Orquesta - Part II (2000)

Artista: New Tango Orquesta
Álbum: Part II
Año: 2000
Género: Tango / Tango fusión
Duración: 40:44
Nacionalidad: Suecia

Lista de Temas:
1. Part I
2. Mission
3. Avantgardia
4. Bewitched
5. Fugato
6. Estacion
7. Gravitation
8. Part III

Alineación:
- Per Störby / bandoneon
- hristian Kullberg / bass
- Livet Nord / violin
- Peter Grahn / guitar
- Thomas Gustavsson / piano

Yo no los conocía. Unos suizos tratando de hacer tango, y del bueno. Y les sale bien, encima.

Sí, aunque usted no lo crea, estos tipos hacen tango...

Al principio se llamaron "New Tide Orquesta" pero luego cambiaron su nombre a "New Tango Orquesta", o probablemente sea al revés, no sé, y no me pregunten la razón. Desde su álbum debut "The New Tango Orquesta", que salió a la luz en 1998, se dedicaron a experimentar desde una nueva composición desarrollando su estilo dentro del género de la música de tango. El álbum fue seguido por giras y conciertos. Muchos conciertos por todo el mundo, no voy a nombrar los países por los que estuvieron porque no termino más y no tiene sentido, pero resulta que estos suecos se la pasan llevando el tango por todos lados, y lo llevan bien, muy bien.

With their new CD "Part II", which was recorded in the studios of the Swedish Radio, they are taking the tango one step further bringing it into the future. With their unique music and sound they have produced an album filled with energy. This is tango containing fugues, improvisations and rockriffs. This is magic and passion in the middle of chaos and calm. This is the new tango for the 21st century!

http://www.imogena.se

Pero su música no solamente tiene tango, también hay minimalismo, toques de barroco y jazz, aunque la pasión es su ingrediente principal. Vamos a presentarlos: cinco jóvenes músicos tocando el bandoneón, violín, piano, contrabajo y guitarra eléctrica constituyen un sonido único con sus propias composiciones que están muy en la onda del "nuevo tango" de Astor Piazzolla. Han sido aclamados por la crítica en todo el mundo como la "esperanza" de nuevo tango (¿no será mucho?). Han recorrido todo el mundo son bastante conocidos en los círculos subterráneos de todos lados, han realizado actuaciones en lugares de rock en Moscú, piojerías de tango en Buenos Aires (aunque también tocaron en el Centro Astor Piazzolla, donde fueron ovacionados de pie y con los brazos abiertos), clubes de jazz en Estambul y salas de conciertos en Beijing; tienen cinco álbumes lanzados: "The New Tango Orquesta" 1998, el "Part II" que presentamos ahora (ojo que no hay "Part I") álbum que fue aclamado por la crítica en todo el mundo y que fue su primer álbum emblemático, "Bestiario" de 2005 (nominado para los premios Grammy), una grabación en vivo "The Concert Kiev" y "Vesper", su último trabajo donde coquetean mucho con la música de cámara. También han realizado música para cine, teatro y diferentes obras de teatro.

New Tango Orquesta is a Swedish band playing sophisticated avant-garde tango, which is a fusion of jazz, rock and tango, with a touch of bitterness thrown into this musical cauldron of lusty passions for that needed melancholic edge. Tango is more than hot temperamental music with a sort of old-timey, ageless feel; tango tells stories, which is why sonically, New Tango Orquesta is harder to pin down.
The band includes Per Storby on accordion, Tomas Gustavsson on piano and electro organ, Josef Kallerdal on contrabass, Livet Nord on violin and Peter Grahn on electric guitar. The combo’s guitar and accordion-piano, multiplied by electro organ, gives the band enough freedom to stretch out and play their jazzy tango. New Tango Orquesta unfolds a moving plotline that carries the audience through a wide range of emotions. Their music picks up momentum, bringing extreme tension that genuine tango seeks to relieve. There’s always a mystery behind tango and a perceptible sense of deja vu.
The members of New Tango Orquesta have worked together since 1995. Their debut album "The New Tango Orquesta," released in 1998, achieved stunning success in Sweden. The band received a Swedish culture award, for "the pushing and developing attitude in their music." They have also composed and recorded music for the Swedish film "In the Shadow of a Tango." With their new release "Part II," they’ve reminded the audience what real tango is – just in case anyone forgot.

Valeria Paykova

Since the beginning in 1996, New Tango Orquesta have, on four albums and a countless number of international tours up to now, with the composer Per Störby as a leader, explored and developed the concept of "nuevo tango". With their unique mix of baroque music, tango, free improvisation, minimalism and romantique, they have gained territory all over the world with their special sound. Their focused performances are a complete acoustic, dynamic, and musically masterpiec one should never miss.
Swedish New Tango Orquesta have released four albums: "The New Tango Orquesta" 1998, "Part II" 2000, the swedish Grammy nominated "Bestiario" 2005 and the recently released "The Kiev Concert" 2009. Per Störby, who is the musical motor in New Tango Orquesta as composer and artistic leader, have started with the chamber music and developed a unique mix of fugues, counterpoint, improvisation, dynamic, minimalism and barouque music.

Laika Records

Not much new tango is new anymore. It´s a long time ago since Astor Piazzolla provoked so many of his compratiots by renewing the loved tango, transformed it into concert music from being dance music. Today there is not much newly written music in the genre anymore. So much more remarkable that the group from Göteborg, New Tango Orquesta is one of them doing it. And how they do it!
I can hardly think of a more elegant, juicy and more passionate way to bring the new tango into the new millenium. Their second CD is filled with the soulful compositions of Per Störby and of exquisite treatment of every instrument – bandoneon, dublebass, guitar, violin and piano. These five are moving very freely beyond outworned gestures; they dance tightly, weave a fugue, jazz with rock attitude, squeeze happiness and sadness out of their instruments. The power and presence in the performance is like a really good live recording. When Livet Nord´s violin dances slowly together with Per Störbys
bandoneon in Estación, I am totally affected by it. I think, the world is waiting for New Tango Orquesta

Ulf Johansson

The ghost of Astor Piazolla hovers inches above the heads of the New Tango Orquesta. While there's nothing in the moody pieces gracing Part II (Imogena import) to identify the quintet as Swedish, the Swedes' love of tango is well known. And the project offers the level of instrumental virtuosity spoiled listeners take for granted in Scandinavian releases. The complex songs bristle with pent-up emotion, flirt with discord, and tie themselves in orchestrated knots as tight as J. S. Bach's noose. The material is as far from tango music's back alley origin's as Piazolla's Argentinean birthplace is from Stockholm,
and it's a tribute to ensemble leader Per Störby that his compositions are squarely in the master's style. His bandoneon sighs heavily as Peter Gran's electric guitar skitters around the edges to allow him ample room to share with pianist Thomas Gustavsson's chord clusters. Meanwhile, Livet Nord's violin adds just enough sweetness to taunt the pallet. Sure, it isn't party music, though "Mission" intersperses the forced hilarity of many an awkward social encounter, and it feeds the mind if not the feet.

Bob Tarte

Aclamado por la crítica en todo el mundo, les dejo el "Part II" junto con algunos videos. Espero les guste, a mí me encantaron.

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