The New Tango Orquesta - Vesper (2009)

Artista: The New Tango Orquesta

Álbum: Vesper
Año: 2009
Género: Tango / Tango fusión / Avant Garde
Duración: 42:54
Nacionalidad: Suecia

Lista de Temas:
01. Vesper
02. Red Circle
03. The Swan Crash Concert: Still Life - The Down
04. The Swan Crash Concert: Still Life - The Blood
05. The Swan Crash Concert: Still Life - The Nausea
06. The Swan Crash Concert: Still Life - The Decay
07. Prelude And Ricercare
08. The Last Coup
09. Time Lapse Variation

Alineación:
- Per Störby / bandoneon
- Josef Kallerdahl / double bass
- Livet Nord / violin
- Peter Grahn / guitar
- Thomas Gustavsson / piano
- Johanna Dahl / cello

El último disco de los tangueros suecos, un disco tan frágil que solamente una ráfaga de viento podría conseguir los tonos que vibran aquí, imágenes sonoras muy fuertes que parece estar profundamente arraigada en los corazones de los músicos, aunque no sean argentinos. Increíblemente precisos y sin demasiados adornos, pero matizados e imaginativos como pocos.

Some wonderful and beautiful ice cold days in February 2009, New Tango Orquesta headed, together with a chef, to the small town Forsvik in the middle of Sweden. An old house from 1904, in the shape of a public house in miniature, was re-built to a temporary studio; the parquet floor was filled with carpets and sound-absorbing blankets was hanged up on the walls. The short walk on the creaking snow back and forth from there to the hostel at the factory in Forsvik, were the only movements the band did during this week. That's how Vesper was made, hidden from the world in a sort of bubble of concentration, occured there out in the woods.
The sound field has broaden and inspired Per Störby to make new musical ideas and compositorial experiments. Some of the tracks on the record shows a newly born fascination of minimalists such as Nyman an Glass, while other tracks develop the distinguished presence of the emotional directness which NTO are best known for.

La palabra latina "Vesper" significa "noche". Y es simple, pero al mismo tiempo este concepto resume muy bien la esencia del nuevo álbum de los suecos. La banda sueba fresca e inusualmente armoniosa. Un viaje al mundo nostálgico se encuentra e este hermoso disco, ritmos de tango (que quizás tienen un espíritu nórdico y no porteño y eso se nota) cobran vida a lo largo del disco.

New Tango Orquesta's fifth album is called ‘Vesper'. For more than a decade NTO has developed their own unique style with elements from modern chamber music, classic baroque music, nuevo tango, minimalism and improvisation. A brief, imprecise description is Michael Nyman meets Astor Piazzolla - but that is far from the full story.
Since the last studio album, ‘Bestiario', which was nominated for a 2006 Swedish Grammy award, the quintet has became a sextet - with a cellist joining the group. The sound field broadened and inspired the composer Per Störby to create new musical ideas and compositional experiments. Some of the tracks on the record show a newly born fascination of minimalists such as Nyman and Glass, while other tracks develop the distinguished presence of the emotional directness which NTO are best known for.
NTO have, through years of touring, laid claim to their very own spot on the international music scene. Audiences have attended their performances at concert halls in China, rock clubs in Moscow, tango clubs in Buenos Aires, jazz clubs in Istanbul and numerous festivals in the Nordic countries and Europe.
‘Vesper' was recorded during beautiful ice cold days in February, in the small Swedish town of Forsvik, in an old house in the woods, transformed into a temporary recording studio - with the parquet floor covered in carpets and sound-absorbing blankets hung up on the walls. That's how Vesper was made, hidden from the world in a sort of bubble of concentration.
The painting on the cover, made by well known Swedish artist Ernst Billgren, is called the Last Coup.

Una impresionante cámara de combustión instrumental que parecen salidos de la capacidad creativa de Lito Vitale, evidencian su talento en cuarenta y dos minutos de placer hecho música.
"Vesper" ha sido aclamado por los más grandes periódicos de Suecia y ha llevado a que en todo el mundo se conozca a esta banda, que hace un nuevo estilo de música que captura nuestras mentes. Otro disco que les recomendamos escuchar.