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.

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In a full crowded auditorium in the powerful concert hall October Palace in Kiev/Ukraine, New Tango Orquesta made one of their most intense and magic concerts during 2008. The performance was recorded by Victor Ovchinnikov, and was never really made for more than just a recording, but the thought of releasing "The Kiev Concert" as a proper album grew when it seemed to convey exactly that electricity which appeared under those cut-glass chandeliers.

"The Kiev Concert contains material from "Bestiario" and "Part II", but the live performances are different from the studio version both by temperament and intense, and also by arrangements, since their "increasing" with the fabulous cellist Johanna Dahl, who actually makes the record debut with New Tango Orquesta on this record.

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