Mönster Outside

New album, "Mönster Outside", from New Tide Orquesta is out on October 28th, 2022.

Acclaimed New Tide Orquesta has been touring together for over 25 years now. They’ve played gigs and festivals in Turkey, China, South America and all over Europe. They’ve made music for movies, TV series, theatre plays and dance performances. This is their 9th album. About not fitting in, or wanting to break free.

New Tide Orqeusta has, with Per Störby Jutbring as creative leader and composer, developed a unique style, a willful mix of modern chamber music, nuevo tango, minimalism and free improvisation. They play concert houses, tango clubs and jazz clubs, always the outsider, and loving it.

And it’s specifically the role of the outsider that is explored on this new album. During some years the band worked together with Brooklyn based choreographer Sidra Bell and her company. The result was the performance "Mönster Outside" that premiered in New Orleans and was later played in New York, Wilmington and in Sweden. The title is a play with the Swedish word 'Mönster' (pattern) and monster without the umlaut. A pattern to fit into, or being eaten by. To be an outsider is to, in one way or another, relate to a pattern or a norm.

Musically Per Störby Jutbring is deeply fascinated by patterns, how small pieces of music fit together and create a wall of sound in slow change. But at the same time a will to break free from norms, to surprise and reinvent. Maybe this is why New Tide Orquesta survived their first 25 years and still has this feeling that they are just getting started.

The cover of the limited vinyl was created by the artist Sanna Haverinen and the album contains music from the performance, as well as some old New Tide Orquesta hits in new outfits. The music is recorded by Johan Adling at Swedish National Radio in Stockholm.