新潮汐乐团New Tide Orquesta(后简称NTO)1996年成立于瑞典西海岸的哥德堡,原名”新探戈乐团New Tango Orquesta”。乐团在继承传统的阿根廷探戈和古典弦乐的基础上,巧妙融合了巴洛克音乐和现代室内乐,成为近十几年来新古典主义的代表。正如享誉世界的瑞典设计一样,NTO的音乐信奉极简主义,简约平实却让听者难以忘怀,作品或节奏明快或娓娓道来,多旋律优美,重视混响、强弱对比、及不同乐器间的和声呼应,在国际乐坛上独树一帜并享有极高的评价。乐团成军17年来,巡演足迹遍布世界各地,从莫斯科的摇滚酒吧到伊斯坦布尔的爵士音乐节,从北京的音乐厅到阿根廷的探戈俱乐部,从极夜下的挪威北角到与南非开普敦的海滩,NTO通过不断探索变换的音乐风格,极富张力的现场即兴表演,为乐迷带来非同寻常的视听感受。
NTO目前共发行过6张专辑,1998年首张专辑《New Tango》就由于对探戈音乐革新的贡献而被邀请赴阿根廷和乌拉圭参加各种节日庆典并在久负盛名的布宜诺斯艾利斯皮亚佐拉中心演出;2000年发行的第二张专辑《Part 2》引发了世界音乐界和多家媒体的广泛关注,来自海外的邀约不断,在俄罗斯,德国,土耳其等地的演出均被当地电视台实况转播;2005年乐团推出了轰动一时的第三张专辑《Bestiario》,赢得了当年的瑞典格莱美“最佳专辑奖”,并于2006年首次前往中国演出;2009年的第四张专辑录制于乌克兰首都基辅美丽的十月宫,是乐团唯一一张发行的现场专辑;同年乐团发行了另一张重量级的录音室专辑《Vesper》,并展开了新一轮国际巡演,于2009、2010年连续两年受邀来到中国,在北京,上海,广州等地进行演出;2012年在乐队更名后以“新潮汐乐团”发表了第六张专辑《How to climb a mountain》,风格较第一张专辑已经发生了巨大的变化,多种音乐元素的融合甚至让人很难以某个词来定义他们的音乐风格。此外,多年中NTO的很多作品都被选用的各类电影,电视作品当中,其中最著名的就是2013年奥斯卡最佳纪录片奖《寻找小糖人Searching for sugarman》中选用了NTO的vesper专辑中的作品《Time Lapse Variation》。
Livet Nord – Violin
Josef Kallerdahl – Double bass
Johanna Dahl – Cello
Peter Gran – Electric guitar
Thomas Gustavsson – Piano
Per Störby – Bandoneon
New Tide Orquesta (former New Tango Orquesta) is one of the most appreciated live acts in Sweden. During 16 years of international touring, the band has found their very own role as the constant outsider. At a rock club in Moscow, jazz festival in Istanbul, tango club in Buenos Aires or a concert hall in Beijing. NTO always take the audience by storm and shows on and on that genre is just a word.
With the composer Per Störby in lead, New Tide Orquesta have, through their six albums, created a unique sound and style; the miscellaneous mix of modern chamber music, minimalism, baroque, free improvisation, and still, a hint of new tango, with an intense dynamic. The album “Bestiario” was nominated for a Swedish Grammy award, and “Vesper” won the “experimental of the year”-award at the Swedish Manifest gala, and 2010 they were awarded “Group Of The Year” at the Swedish folk- and world music gala. The music has been used in several movies, and they have also made music to several theatre plays, dance performances and art installations.
New Tide Orquesta has a big and loyal audience, and concerts with NTO always promise a touch of magic: intense, concentrated, intimate and thrilling.
“Their focused performances are a complete acoustic, dynamic, and musically masterpiece one should never miss.”
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BIOGRAPHY: a short summary of the years since the beginning
1996-1999 The band was formed in Gothenburg/Sweden when the composer and bandoneon player gathered some of his friends to try out some of his new work. The sessions lead to the debut album ”The New Tango Orquesta” released 1998. With the debut album, the band is invited to perform in South America, the home of tango, Uruguay and Argentina. They were met by standing ovations and open arms at Centro Astor Piazzolla in Buenos Aires.
2000-2003 The second album ”Part II” was released 2000. It got rave reviews by unanimous critics and the band started, for real, to find a new sound. The media mogul Artemy Troitsky invites the band to Russia for a live show in Russian TV and several concerts in Moscow among others. They also made tours in Germany and during autumn 2003, double bassist Josef Kallerdahl becomes a member of the group.
2004-2006 The third album ”Bestiario” was released 2005 and became a success and won both the audience´s and the critic´s approval. Bestiaro is also nominated for a Swedish Grammy and takes the band on several tours in Germany and Russia. They also make several tours in Turkey during these years, with performances in Istanbul, Diyrbakir, Malatya and smaller towns as Kars, among others, on the Turkish countryside. These were exciting travels, which made impressions and gave taste of meeting audience at more odd and unexpected places. In 2006 they tour in the Nordic countries as well as Germany and China.
2007-2009 NTO makes tour in Scandinavia, Russia, Ukraine and China. During this period the band becomes a sextet when the cellist Johanna Dahl joins the band, and through her the current line-up is created. Under the cut-glass chandeliers in the full packed concert hall “The October Palace”, in Kiev/Ukraine, NTO made one of their best performances in 2008. The concert was recorded and released as ”The Kiev Concert” on HOOB Records during spring of 2009. Per develops the music, finding new musical paths to walk on and a new, minimalistic expression takes shape. The new sound perpetuates during a week in Forsvik in January of 2009 and is released as the bands fifth album ”Vesper” later during the autumn of 2009. In connection to the release they made a massive tour in Sweden and toured Germany once again. They also made a second tour to China with performances in the big concert halls of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou among others.
2010-2011 They release the book ”Full scores/photos/text” contents all sheet music from ”Vesper”, sellected photos from tours, texts written by dramatist Mattias Brunn and cover painting by artist Ernst Billgren. Again, they are touring China and Germany, and during 2011 they make the “musicperformancedancetheatre-play” show: ”Sisyfos – Back On Top”, in collaboration with actor/coreographer Lars Bethke and director Peder Bjurman. The performance/theatre-play was called “a masterpiece” by Swedens leading newspaper DN, with it´s opening night in Stockholm and thereafter performances in Sweden during the following year.
2012 New Tango Orquesta change their name to New Tide Orquesta, since they, over the last years, have identified themselves as a chamber music orchestra with a few different influences and references, where Nuevo tango still can be one of them. NTO keeps the Spanish spelling of ”orquesta” (orchestra), “one won’t get rid of the epithet ”The worlds most miss-spelled band”…”. The sixth album ”How To Climb A Mountain” is released on HOOB Records.