Improvisation, composition, language and cultures merge and influence each other in the world of Under the Surface. After the group's first two completely free improvised albums, Under the Surface (2017) and Trinity (2019), both Edison-nominated, Under the Surface takes the next step with a fully composed album: Miin Triuwa (My Faith). On this special third album they reflect on their own background and find their own 'folk'.

Since the formation of Under the Surface in 2016, the band has enjoyed great success internationally. Drummer Joost Lijbaart saw the group's potential early and was able to organize more than 200 concerts in 25 countries on 4 continents: from Africa to South America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Inspired by the many travels and cultures the group came into contact with, they developed a unique improvisational language, a combination of jazz, ethnic and electronic music.

With Miin Triuwa, Under the Surface embarks on a new musical journey with compositions by guitarist Bram Stadhouders. He wrote a suite of six pieces in which the characters and qualities of the band members transcend themselves. The improvisations, that are always subject to change and that made the group so characteristic, are now captured in a strong musical statement showing 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 a common urge to find a universal essence in different cultures. For this composition, the connection was made with our own “forgotten” medieval language. Vocalist Sanne Rambags did research with the help of linguistics Peter-Alexander Kerkhof and the Institute for the Dutch Language and wrote lyrics for the album in Old Dutch. The language that was spoken in the Netherlands between ca. 600 and ca. 1150 AD and its sound is related to Gaelic and Icelandic.