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Per Störby Jutbring’s Cinematic, Melancholic and Heartbreaking Single “Swan Shaped Kite” Fuses Pop Accessibility and Classical Music Elegance

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Per Störby Jutbring combines pop song ideas with classical music performed by the Swedish The Malva Quartet for the warmly rendered album Tenants Of Misty Mansion (According To The Landlord) (out November 22, 2024 via HOOB Records). In the video for the lead single “Swan Shaped Kit” we see an elegantly detailed stop motion animation reminiscent of Wes Anderson’s 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox. But in the song there is a sense of melancholic reflection and quiet yearning evoked by interweaving stings floating over rich low end. We see anthropomorphic figures going through the motions of daily mundanity within the cut out view of a house that sits empty part of the time conveying a sense of loneliness and isolation. The figures sometimes seem to stand as if caught in a moment of poignant reverie on the brink of crying but not quite crossing over. It’s a beautiful piece of music and without needing the underlying narrative it is both musically and with the accompanying video visually affecting. Watch the video for “Swan Shaped Kite” on YouTube and follow Per Störby Jutbring at the links provided.

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Per Störby Jutbring Instills a Sense of Childhood Curiosity and Sense of Adventure on the Title Track to His New Album The Thief Bunny Society

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The title track to Per Störby Jutbring’s latest album The Thief Bunny Society has all the light, playful yet imagination stirring qualities of great childhood fantasy movies, the kind that don’t pander and remain enjoyable through adulthood. Like Nigel Westlake’s score for Babe, Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack to FernGully or any of Danny Elfman’s cinematic music. With layers of piano, strings, clarinet and electronics, Jutbring conveys a sense of openness and freedom, of a vista of adventures to look forward to in whatever this Thief Bunny Society may be. Is it the kind of society children form to bond over a summer of shared hijinks and discovery, of creative mischief and several weeks free of all the demands of life during the school year? While that may be an age and perhaps for many class specific option, it is something everyone should get to experience sometime in their lives—a lengthy period of time where your imagination and intuition are the guide and fun is the goal—so that you have a place in your heart that you can go to when life can seem like drudgery and the demands place on you seem burdensome. It’s a psychological space that represents a freedom that can’t be taken away from you. Jutbring’s soundtrack provides the sonic analog of that experience as the childhood soundtrack to a film that does not yet exist, He taps into those parts of your brain that create those feelings with his composition and your mind is better for having heard it. Listen to “The Thief Bunny Society” on Soundcloud and follow Jutbring at the links below.

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