Our dear friend, great musician and Efterklang drummer/trumpet player for over 10 years, Thomas Husmer has decided to seek new adventures and is no longer a member of the band.
He will be dearly missed in Efterklang, but we fully support and understand his decision. Please help us thanking him for all his contributions and the many memories. You can send Thomas a greeting in the comment field below.
Thomas has written a message to us all. Before you read it, please note that Thomas has not quit music. If you live in Copenhagen and would like to play music with him in some form, then he welcomes you to take contact.
Please also note that this is not the end of Efterklang. We (Casper, Mads and Rasmus) have been working on a new Efterklang album as a trio for 6 months now and we are very excited to report that it is going well with many new songs in progress. You can follow the process via our Twitter and Flickr pages.
Message from Thomas Husmer:
Dear friends and fans of Efterklang.
I feel so genuinely privileged to have been part of the Efterklang family and the whole Efterklang project. Over the past ten years we’ve done so much together. We’ve had so much fun and we’ve been so many fantastic places. From when we started out and until now, it’s been an adventure that exceeded all we ever dreamed of. Life with Efterklang has given me more than I could’ve ever imagined, and I’m forever thankful for everything. I’ve had the experience of my life on this crazy fantastic roller coaster ride!
It’s difficult for me to explain in few words why I’ve chosen to step back from something so dear to me. And I don’t expect anyone to fully understand. Lately my priorities in life have changed. I’ve felt the urge to dedicate myself to a more simple and domestic life closer to my family. And I’ve found it impossible to combine this with my life in Efterklang. This has been a very tough decision for me, but I feel good where I am right now. I’m a happy man with a rich past and an unrevealed future.
I want to thank my bandmates for all the great times we’ve had together. I want to thank my family and friends for all your support throughout this time. And I want to thank the Efterklang supporters for all the cheers and smiling faces. You all made my life richer.
This is old news if you follow Daytrotter regularly, but if you don´t then you should know that Daytrotter recently aired a session with Efterklang.
We recorded this live directly to tape at Big Orange Studios in Austin, Texas, back in September 2010. At that time we had just finished filming An Island with Vincent Moon and was now touring the US with our 7-piece band featuring Peter Broderick, Heather Woods Broderick and Daniel James (of Canon Blue).
In the session that has aired you can hear us perform Frida Found a Friend, I Was Playing Drums, Modern Drift and Step Aside.
We are very happy to present The Figment Notebook.
A new animated shortfilm by author and filmmaker Karim Ghahwagi with music by Mads Brauer & Casper Clausen of Efterklang and narration by Sara Davis.
The film was commissioned by c.sides for their project Audible Approaches for a Better Place and will only be online in December before it will make its debuts at film festivals in 2012.
Karim Ghahwagi and Efterklang used to work closely together in the years 2003 to 2005 where Karim directed several Efterklang music videos and also took an important role in the live concerts with his incredible video collages. Karim moved on to work with artists like Trentemøller and has recently also had his first book published.
The Figment Notebook brings Karim and Efterklang back together!
Enjoy!
THE FIGMENT NOTEBOOK
Running time: 10mins. 30s
Col / Sound
Production year: 2011
A Film by Karim Ghahwagi
Music by Mads Brauer and Casper Clausen (of Efterklang)
Narration by Sara Davis
Produced by Rasmus Stolberg and Karim Ghahwagi
Made for Audible Approaches for a Better Place
Curated by Ronni Shendar and Till Rohmann
Efterklang appears courtesy of 4AD
Music Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia
Adopting elements of hagiography, ghost story, fairy tale and fin de siècle animated picture book blurring histories both real and imagined, the Figment Notebook tells the story of a prodigal child raised amongst a secluded coven of witches.
Old Mate is perhaps the loveliest coffee bar in Copenhagen and on Saturday afternoon we will be there with our good friends Jody Barton and Hvass&Hannibal. Together we will host the tiniest and nicest Julemarked ever – full of art and music related stuff that you can give to someone special as a christmas present.
Please stop by if you are in town. We will be selling a ton of things, among them the new An Island DVD at a favorable price and we are also selling Magic Chairs on vinyl for the ridiculous sum of 50 kr!
There will lots of other special offers on T-shirts and the entire Rumraket catalogue. We will also be selling (cheap) vinyl records from great Danish bands like Iceage, I Got You On Tape, Messy Shelters, The Late Great Fitzcarraldos, Michael Møller, When Saints Go Machine, Turboweekend and many more.
JULEMARKED at Old Mate by Hvass&Hannibal, Jody Barton & Efterklang
Art, Music & Espresso – Bring Cash!
address: Nansensgade 26, KBH K
Time: 13:00 to 17:00
Today AN ISLAND – a film by Vincent Moon & Efterklang is released on DVD!
The DVD comes with almost an hour of extra material and in a very very special cover! The packaging is designed by Hvass&Hannibal and features photography by Antje Taiga Jandrig and a custom-made cover printed on recycled paper using vegetable based inks by Stumptown Printers in Portland, Oregon.
The DVD release is limited to 5000 copies and they are all individually numbered. The only place to purchase this DVD is atWWW.ANISLAND.CC/HOME .
When ordering the DVD you get the new EFTERKLANG EP ‘Live at Roskilde Festival 2010′ as a bonus!. An Island is also available digitally after the Pay-What-You-Want model. This is also via www.anisland.cc/home
To celebrate the DVD release Vincent Moon & Efterklang has made this outtake from the film available online.
EFTERKLANG (ft: Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, Heather Woods Broderick, Frederik Teige & Niklas Antonson (Slaraffenland): MODERN DRIFT (An Island outtake):
As you might know we are lucky to be signed to British label 4AD, who has a roster full of artists that we admire, and who also runs the 4AD Sessions. They have now compiled a collection of the best 4AD Sessions recordings and released it as a free digital download and a very limited vinyl edition under the name: 4AD Sessions 2008-2011.
We have 10 copies of the limited vinyl edition which we will be giving away this week via our Twitter and Facebook pages, but also via this post and the comment field below.
To have the chance to win a copy of the vinyl edition just post a comment below and answer this question: Where was the Efterklang 4AD session recorded?
This contest ends on Thursday September 29th at lunchtime Danish time. We will draw lots between the correct answers. Please don’t forget to sign up with a functioning email address when you comment.
We will give away two copies via this site and then the remaining eight via our Twitter and Facebook pages.
Below you can see the track-list of this compilation and you can stream/download the digital version:
B1. tUnE-yArDs ‘Powa’
B2. Efterklang ‘I Was Playing Drums’
B3. Broken Records ‘Home’
B4. Stornoway ‘Here Comes The Blackout’
B5. Iron & Wine ‘Big Burned Hand’
This is I Was Playing Drums from Efterklang’s 4AD Session:
A little over a month ago we initiated a little artwork project together with fellow Dane and artist Trentemøller. The project was based around a remix swop – Trentemøller has remixed our song Raincoats and we have remixed his song Tide.
Back then, a month ago, we invited anyone to suggest the artwork for this joint release and to our joy a stream of submissions followed. There were so many good ones! You can see all of them on this designatedFlickr page.
It was not easy picking a winner with so many great submissions, but it had to be done of course. Together with Trentemøller we have selected 13 artworks that all will be featured in the booklet for the digital version of this release. You can also watch some of our favorites in this post below.
The release is available on iTunes now. We hope you like the two remixes and the many fine artwork submissions.
Efterklang & Trentemøler – Raincoats vs Tide – on iTunes
Not only is Daniel James aka Canon Blue our dear friend, he also enlisted Mads and Casper to help him produce this new album and Thomas to play drums on a lot of tracks.
Our close friends in Slaraffenland also guest this album (Mike on bass, Niklas on trombone, Bjørn on drums) and so does amiina who has recorded all the amazing string parts. Peter Broderick guests one song and classical singer Katinka Fogh Vindelev who sings on our ‘Magic Chairs’ album is also featured on the album. It all sort of feel like one big happy family gathering!
If you have been following the announcements about this release you probably also know that, besides future Efterklang releases, this is the very last release we do on our label Rumraket. It really feels like the perfect record to end with. You can read a statement about the close of Rumraket here.
Well enough talk. Take a listen to two songs from the album below and if you are tempted you can buy the album oniTunesor on CD (designed by Hvass&Hannibal) via our Rumraket Shop.
AN ISLAND on DVD & Download - the film by Vincent Moon & Efterklang is now available as Pay What You Want Download and DVD.
Visit www.anisland.cc for trailers, more info and to download and order.
