Efterklang + gifted students from PS.859 = Efterkids! Feb 23rd in NYC

We are so super excited about this project. On Tuesday we will perform two of our songs together with kids from the Special Music School on strings in a very special way – If you want to go this special event you can! Just send an email to rsvpnyc@4ad.com

FROM 4AD in New York
We are very pleased to announce a VERY exciting record release party/performance for Efterklang’s 4AD debut album, Magic Chairs. It’s a multimedia extravaganza, and open to anyone with RSVP.

On Tuesday February 23rd from 5-7pm at the Clark Studio Theater in Manhattan, an 8 piece orchestra, made up of kids from PS. 859, a public school for musically gifted children from grades K-8 (aka The Special Music School) will perform Efterklang songs in tandem with a filmed performance of the band. The band will be projected on a 20-foot high screen behind the kids. We call this collaboration Efterkids! With this performance, 4AD and Efterklang hope to raise awareness for the overall issue of music education in schools.

From 5-6pm we will have a listening party for Magic Chairs with complimentary beer and wine, and the performance will begin at 6pm.

DATE: Tuesday February 23rd
LOCATION: Clark Studio Theater is part of Lincoln Center, located in the Rose Building, 7th Floor, at West 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. INFO
TIME: 5-7pm
WHO: anyone, space permitting
RSVP: rsvpnyc@4ad.com

As a fund-raising effort, 4AD will be filming the performance and producing a special 4AD Session (www.4ad.com/sessions/) that will go live online in March. The Efterkids 4AD Session will be heavily promoted and visitors will be asked to make a donation to the Special Music School in order to view the session. Materials will also be made available for other schools to create their own performance and videos of Efterkids.

The proceeds from this campaign will go toward raising money for much need computer equipment and other supplies for the school, and in addition, 4AD will be making a donation to the school.

ABOUT PS.859 – THE SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL
The Special Music School (SMS) is a unique model for how publicly funded arts education can work.

SMS was founded in 1996 as a public/private partnership between the New York City Department of Education and the Kaufman Center, a not-for-profit, multi-arts organization. Its students have benefitted greatly from an integrated approach to curriculum, receiving rigorous musical training and academic guidance in a holistic context that emphasizes creative thinking and problem solving.

THE NEED FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
Producing future generations of musicians and adults who appreciate art is vital to our social fabric.

Beyond creating art, a recent Conference Board Report revealed that 74 percent of employers agree that creativity is increasingly important in U.S. workplaces. In addition, teamwork and critical thinking ranked in the five most important skills for new workforce entrants, yet more than half of these employers stated that entrants exhibited deficiencies in these skills. Ensuring that students have the opportunity to study a musical instrument helps resolve this deficit.

As other nations have looked to the United States education system as a model, and are including arts education in their curricula, many American schools are cutting these same programs. Without music programs in our public schools our children and our culture are weakened.

Thursday this week (thats tomorrow already) we are celebrating the release of our new album. Everyone is welcome and there will be great live music. Entrance is free and we start at 20:00 and end at 01:00 Frederik Teige, Heather Broderick + Peter Broderick and Slaraffenland are all performing live. Come join us. It is at Global in Copenhagen N – more info and at globalcph.dk

xox
EFTERKLANG

PS: We have recently been announced for Roskilde Festival in Denmark, Off Festival in Poland and Immergut in Germany. Summer here we come!

Jan. 8th update! You can now watch the concert film on Danish Radios PIRAT TV station.

Gaffa is Denmarks biggest music magazine (print & online) and according to the readers of Gaffa, Performing Parades by Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra is the best Danish Music DVD to come out in 2009.

Thank you!

Other news today – The SLARAFFENKLANG concert in Copenhagen is now sold-out. There are still tickets available for the concert at Voxhall in Århus.

Performing Parades can be bought directly from The Leaf Label and Rumraket

Hope you’re all enjoying yourself with family, champagne, coffee, friends, painkillers or whoever or whatever is around you today. Our tiny band have completely split up, for the cause of holiday, being literally spread all over the world. Thomas in Thailand, Rasmus in Istanbul, Casper in Toronto and Mads taking care of business in Copenhagen.

Guess we needed a little break from each other or just simply a little time with someone else. After all, we’ve been seeing the world collectively nearly everyday for the past couple of years, and very soon we’ll be joining forces again (tour dates 2010).

Wow! An entire decade just passed by, and the slipstream of nostalgia just reached our shore. From the view from our nose tips, it’s been a very very special one! Mainly because there was no Efterklang a decade ago, and secondly because we’re having the time of our life!

Lets look ahead. Just around the corner, on February 22nd (23rd in the US) 2010, we’ll release our 3rd studio album: Magic Chairs, coming out on our very own Rumraket label in Scandinavia and our brand new home 4AD in the rest of the world.

We’re ULTRA EXCITED to present it for you!!!

Here is a Happy New Year Video Postcard from our 4 corners of the world to all of you sweet people. The postcard includes 4 snippets of songs from Magic Chairs. Enjoy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU & YOURS. SEE YOU SOOOOON!!!

Rasmus, Mads, Thomas, Casper

Video postcard from Efterklang – Happy New Year!

Efterklang newsletter 03/09/2009
EFTERKLANG SIGNS TO 4AD!
We are very happy to let you know that we have signed a new record deal with 4AD – one of our absolute favourite labels in the world.

We will now be part of a roster that currently counts fine artists like The National, Deerhunter, TV on the Radio, M Ward, Scott Walker, St. Vincent and many more and we are of course full of anticipation about this new collaboration between 4AD and Efterklang. First project together will be our 3rd studio album, which will be released sometime in the first quarter of 2010. The playground for this new friendship is the world, but in Scandinavia we will release our future albums on our own Rumraket label.

This does not mean that we are cutting all ties to our current home, The Leaf Label. Not at all, actually. October 19th 2009 they will release Performing Parades by Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra on CD/DVD & LP/DVD.

We have been releasing our music on The Leaf Label since 2004 and it is the home of our Tripper and Parades albums as well as our mini-albums Springer and Under Giant Trees. It has been absolutely joyful for us and we are proud that we have contributed to their incredible discography. We are still waiting for them to release a record we don’t like, but we are beginning to think that it will never happen. We think they will be reading this and here is a huge and sincere THANK YOU for them.

We will be on tour this fall starting Friday!
We are touring most of the fall, because we like to tour and because we want to celebrate the Performing Parades release. The biggest show this fall will be October 28th at Barbican Hall in London where we will be playing a Performing Parades Concert with the classical orchestra Britten Sinfonia. Tickets are available here: barbican.org.uk

The rest of the shows we will play as a 7-piece and we promise to play new songs!
Here are the dates (more to be confirmed soon):
04.09 – Stradbally Hall, IE / Electric Picnic / tickets
06.09 – Vlieland, NL / Into the Great Wide Open Festival / tickets
11.09 – Isle of Wight, UK / Bestival / tickets
12.09 – Dorset, UK / End of the Road / sold-out
13.09 – Cardiff, UK / The Globe / w. Peter Broderick / tickets
14.09 – Coventry, UK / St Johns Church / tickets 1, tickets 2
17.09 – Gothenburg, SE / Parken / tickets
18.09 – Stockholm, SE / Hornstull Strand / tickets
19.09 – Malmö, SE / Babel / tickets
23.09 – Oslo, NO / Det Norske Studentersamfund, Storsalen / ticket
24.09 – Bergen, NO / Ekko Festival / tickets
25.09 – Stavanger, NO / TOU Scenen / tickets
26.09 – Kristiansand, NO / Kick
28.10 – London, UK / Barbican / Performing Parades w. Britten Sinfonia / tickets
29.10 – Birmingham, UK / The Asylum / w. Nancy Elisabeth / tickets
30.10 – Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor
31.10 – Manchester, UK / Deaf Institute / hosted by Hey Manchester!
01.11 – Leeds, UK / Brainwash Festival (at Leeds University)
02.11 – Reading, UK / Reading Concert Hall / tickets
03.11 – Paris, Fr / La Maroquinerie
04.11 – Utrecht, NL / Tivoli de Helling / tickets
05.11 – Amsterdam, NL / Paradiso / tickets
18.11 – Berlin, DE / Festsaal Kreuzberg / tickets
19.11 – Köln, DE / Kulturbunker Mülheim
20.11 – Bochum, DE / Bahnhoof Langendreer
21.11 – Hannover, DE / Junges Schauspiel
24.11 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / tickets
25.11 – Leipzig, DE / UT Connewitz / w. Jersey / tickets
03.12 – Basel, CH / 1. Stock / tickets
04.12 – Aarau, CH / Flösserplatz / tickets
05.12 – Luzern, CH / Treibhaus / tickets

Other stuff:
if you are on Twitter then you should know that so are we! twitter.com/efterklang
if you would like to stay updated on our recordings and whereabouts then this is a good place! Efterklang on Flickr

Rumraket Update!
Monday the 7th of September Slaraffenland will release We’re on Your Side. This is their 3rd album and it is without doubt their best yet! You can read more and download two free MP3s at Rumraket.com/shop

Monday the 21st of September Taxi Taxi! will release their long awaited debut album. It is called Still Standing at Your Back Door and it is a marvellous album – Johanna and Miriam are back! Pre-order and get a free MP3 at Rumraket.com/shop

We should also tell you that we have reissued the debut album by our good friends Grizzly Bear. Horn of Plenty is out now again and can be ordered here: Rumraket.com/shop

Best wishes from Copenhagen!

Casper, Mads, Thomas & Rasmus – Efterklang

PS. you rock our world

Very exciting news for us!!

To celebrate the release of our brand new live album and film Performing Parades, we have confirmed a concert on 28 October at the Barbican Hall in London in which we will perform our album Parades (2007) with The Britten Sinfonia. The orchestra previously teamed up with us at this year’s fuseleeds09 festival for a performance we will never forget. We look so much forward to play with Britten Sinfonia again!

The show coincides with the release of our Performing Parades CD/DVD and LP/DVD that feature our performance of Parades in Copenhagen last September, with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra. The 55-minute film is directed by Benjamin Hesselholdt, and is accompanied by an audio CD/LP of the full concert.

The DVD will be stuffed full of extras, including a behind the scenes documentary (made by Ralf Christensen and Anders Bötter) of the preparations for the event, and all the videos made for tracks from Parades.

Performing Parades will be released on October 19.
You can buy tickets for the performance in Barbican Hall right here – Barbican.org.uk
The concert is promoted by our good friends from Arctic Circle

yehaa!
- efterklang

photo by Agnete Schlichtkrull/DR

Yes we are indeed. Please come by if you are around. It was so much fun last time and we hope for the same tonight. As last time we are very bad at fulfilling requests, but if you bring your favorite song on a cd-r or iPod we will play it (if we like it)!

The party starts at 22:00
The address is Guldbergsgade 7A – Copenhagen N – www.soupanatural.dk
Their cocktails are very very good and as organic as cocktails can be!

Dear friends
Happy New year to all you and yours: We had the most amazing past year, with so many incredible experiences around the globe… Possibly the best in Efterklang history. Thanks a lot to all of the people making each concert special, and to all of you showing us love one way or another!

Hope 2009 will bring you all much luck

Cheeeers:)
All of us

christmas card 5th December 2008
It might be a little early for this kind of greeting, but for Efterklang the year ends tomorrow in Athens, Greece when we will play the very last concert of our Parades tour. In the last 14 months, the tour has taken us to North America, China, and almost every single country in Europe. In total we have played 133 concerts since October 16th 2007. The entire list of concerts can be read below.

We have documented most of our travels on our flickr photo page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/efterklang-recordings – There are more than 1000 photos to be flickered.

We would also like to present our new Vimeo site. All our videos can be found in there including Cutting Ice To Snow, which Pitchfork just selected as one of the Top 40 videos of 2008. And as of today you can also watch the premiere of our new video for Polygyne by Carolina Melis. http://vimeo.com/rumraket

It has been one of the best years ever for us, and we are now looking forward to future adventures and new Efterklang releases in 2009. We also look forward to upcoming albums by Slaraffenland and Taxi Taxi! which will be released on our label Rumraket in 2009.

A thousand thanks (as we say in Danish) to everybody that somehow took part in this past year. We have experienced so many things and it is nice to have been able to share it with so many friends, musicians, collaborators and listeners!

Kaerlig hilsen
Efterklang

The PARADES Tour:

2007
16.10 – le Havre, France / Cabaret Electric
17.10 – Paris, France / Divan du Monde
18.10 – Rennes, France / Electroni[K] Festival
21.10 – Madrid, Spain / Festival de Otono
30.10 – Malmø, Sweden / Debaser
31.10 – Oslo, Norway / Blå / Oslo
01.11 – Stockholm, Sweden / Debaser Medis
02.11 – Nörrköping, Sweden / Hörsalen
03.11 – Gothenburg, Sweden / Stenhammarsalen
08 nov – Albertslund, Denmark / Forbrændingen
09 nov – Vejle, Denmark / Bygningen
10 nov – Århus, Denmark / VoxHall
15 nov – Copenhagen, Denmark / Vega
16 nov – Odense, Denmark / Studenterhus
17 nov – Aalborg, Denmark / Studenterhuset
21 nov – Bristol, England / Thekla Social
22 nov – Birmingham, England / Hare & Hounds
23 nov – London, England / Bush Hall
24 nov – Leeds, England / Brudenell Social Club
25 nov – Nottingham, England / Rescue Rooms
27 nov – Glasgow, Scotland / The Arches
28 nov – Dublin, Ireland / Whelans
29 nov – Belfast, North Ireland / Spring & Airbrake
30 nov – Manchester, England / The Roadhouse
01 dec – Brighton, England / Pressure Point
02 dec – Bruxelles, Belgium / VK-club at Palace
03 dec – Amsterdam, Holland / Paradiso

2008
31.01 – Berlin / Club Transmediale @ Maria am Ostbahnhof
01.02 – Leipzig, Germany / UT Connewitz
02.02 – Münster, Germany / Gleis
03.02 – Dresden, Germany / BeatPol
04.02 – Vienna, Austria / Arena
07.02 – Milano, Italy – CASA 139
09.02 – Rome, Italy – Init
10.02 – Ravenna, Italy – Bronson
12.02 – Zürich, Switzerland / Ziegel Oh Lac at Rote Fabrik
14.02 – Düdingen, Switzerland / Bad Bonn
15.02 – Vevey, Switzerland / Rocking Chair
16.02 – St. Gallen, Switzerland / Nordklang Festival
17.02 – Schaffhausen, Switzerland / Tap Tab
19.02 – Barcelona, Spain / Apolo
20.02 – Madrid, Spain / NeuClub
21.02 – Huesca, Spain / Centro Cultural Matadoro
22.02 – Agen, France / Le Florida
06.03 – Sønderborg, Denmark / Sønderborghus
07.03 – Aarhus, Denmark / Musikcafeen
08.03 – Kolding, Denmark / Pitstop
12.03 – Gothenburg, Sweden / Pustervik
13.03 – Oslo, Norway / John Dee
14.03 – Copenhagen / Store Vega
15.03 – Lund, Sweden / Mejeriet
27.03 – Birmingham, UK / Hare & Hounds
28.03 – Sheffield, UK / Corporation
29.03 – Dublin, EI / Button Factory
30.03 – Cork, EI / Cyprus Avenue
31.03 – Cardiff, Wa / The Point
01.04 – Manchester, UK / The Ruby Lounge
02.04 – London / Queen Elizabeth Hall
03.04 – Brighton, UK / Pressure Point
04.04 – Oxford, UK (NEW) / The Bullingdon
05.04 – Tourcoing, FR / Grand Mix
07.04 – Paris, FR / Point Ephemere
10.04 – Brussels, BE / Domino Festival
11.04 – Groningen, NL / Vera
12.04 – Rotterdam, NL / Motel Mozaique
13.04 – Utrecht, NL / Ekko
01.05 – Roskilde, DK / Gimle
02.05 – Herning, DK / Fermaten
03.05 – Aarhus, DK / POP REVO Festival
06.05 – Denver, CO / Larimer Lounge
07.05 – Salt Lake City, UT / Urban Lounge
09.05 – Portland, OR / Doug Fir
10.05 – Seattle, WA / Nectar Lounge
11.05 – Eugene, OR / WOW Hall
12.05 – San Francisco, CA / Bottom Of The Hill
13.05 – Visalia, CA / Cellar Door
14.05 – Los Angeles, CA / Spaceland
15.05 – San Diego, CA / Casbah
16.05 – Tucson, AZ / Plush
17.05 – Phoenix, AZ / Modified
19.05 – Denton, TX / Hailey’s
20.05 – Austin, TX / Mohawk
22.05 – Atlanta, GA / Drunken Unicorn
23.05 – Chapel Hill, NC / Local 506
24.05 – Washington, DC / Rock and Roll Hotel
26.05 – Philadelphia, PA / The First Unitarian Church
27.05 – Hamden, CT / The Space
28.05 – New York, NY / Knitting Factory
29.05 – Boston, MA / TT the Bears
30.05 – Montreal, PQ / Zoobizarre
31.05 – Toronto, ONT / El Mocambo
02.06 – Chicago, IL / Empty Bottle
03.06 – Kansas City, MO / Record Bar
06.06 – Aarhus, DK / SPOT Festival
20.06 – Copenhagen to Oslo Ferry
28.06 – Prague, CZ / Midnight Sun Festival
03.07 – Arvika Festival, SE
05.07 – Roskilde Festival, DK
08.07 – Copenhagen Jazz Festival, DK / Skuespilhuset
10.07 – Leeds, UK / The Brudenell Social Club
11.07 – Bracknell Fringe Festival, UK / Wilde Theatre
12.07 – Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, UK
13.07 – Paris, France / Bal @ Place de la Bastille
14.07 – Norwich, UK / Norwich Arts Centre
19.07 – Dublin, EI / Analog Festival / w. Tortoise & Liars
20.07 – Dour Festival, BE
25.07 – Foligno, Perugia, IT / Dancity Festival
27.07 – Zaragoza, ES / EXPO 08
02.08 – Storåsfestivalen, NO
09.08 – London, UK / Field Day Festival
10.08 – Leicester, UK / Summer Sundae
12.08 – Copenhagen, DK / Store VEGA / supporting The National
13.08 – Aarhus, DK / Train / supporting The National
26.08 – Groningen, NL / Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival
27.08 – Brussels, BE / Feeerieen at Warandepark
02.09 – Berlin, DE / Lido
03.09 – Leipzig, DE / Conne Island
04.09 – Dresden, DE / Scheune
05.09 – Dortmund, DE / FZW
06.09 – Cologne, DE / Kulturbunker Mülheim
07.09 – Vienna, AT / Arena
26.09 – Parades in Concert / Performed w. The Danish National Chamber Orchestra in DR Byen, Copenhagen, DK
26.09 – (EXTRA) Parades in Concert (EXTRA)
01.10 – Hong Kong / HITEC / Part of the NOTCH Festival
02.10 – Guangzhou, China / Xinghai Concert Hall / Part of the NOTCH Festival
03.10 – Shanghai, China / 669 Greenhouse / Part of the NOTCH Festival
04.10 – Beijing, China / Yugongyishan / Part of the NOTCH Festival
21.11 – Katowice, Poland / Rialto Kino Theatre / Ars Cameralis Festival
25.11 – Helsinki, Finland / Tavastia Klubi
26.11 – Tallinn, Estonia / Von Krahl Theatre
27.11 – Riga, Latvia / Spikeri / Hosted by Sound Forest
29.11 – Uppsala, Sweden / Uppsala Konsert & Kongress
06.12 – Athens, Greece / An Club

last Friday the Performing Parades Concert premiered in Copenhagen. There is no doubt that this is wildest thing yet to happen for us. We would like to thank DR UnderholdningOrkestret for playing with us! Karsten Fundal for arranging the score! Karl Bjerre-Skibsted for inviting us and for being so über cool as the producer of the whole thing. We would also like to mention that Hvass&Hannibal are the coolest designers/visual artists on this planet and that their scenography and costumes were more than brilliant! Also thanks to Benjamin Hesselholdt and his extremely hard working team of cool and friendly light and camera people!

and thanks to all who came to the shows!!! we had an incredible time!!

Last Friday we were more than 50 people on stage!! Today we travel to China to perform as a 6 piece band!! Very schizophrenic and also very uplifting. We are so happy to see the different forms that Efterklang take these days!

photo by Agnete Schlichtkrull