Miin Triuwa - My Faithfulness
Improvisation, composition, language and cultures melt together and influence each other. A whole world resides Under The Surface. In this performance of their third album they reflect on their own background and find their own 'folk'.
With Miin Triuwa, Under The Surface embarks on a new musical journey with compositions by guitarist Bram Stadhouders. He wrote a suite of eight pieces in which the characters and qualities of the band members rise above themselves. The improvisations, which are always subject to change and which make the group so characteristic, are now captured in a solid musical statement that shows what the band stands for. Instead of traveling to other worlds, with this project the group looked inward and explored how their own roots influence their music.
Under The Surface has the common urge to create a universal essence of different cultures. For this album, the connection was made with our own 'forgotten' language, Old Dutch.
Vocalist Sanne Rambags did research with the help of historical linguist Peter-Alexander Kerkhof and the Institute for Dutch Language and wrote beautiful lyrics for the album in Old Dutch. The language that was spoken in the Netherlands between about 600 and about 1150 A.D. and is related in sound to Gaelic and Icelandic.
endi ik quath wie sal gevan mii vetheron also duvon, ik vliugan sal
(and I said, who will give me feathers as of a dove, and I will fly)