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:

4AD Sessions 2008-2011
A1. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti ‘Menopause Man’
A2. Blonde Redhead ‘Here Sometimes’
A3. Twin Shadow ‘Forget’
A4. Gang Gang Dance ‘Chinese High’
A5. Deerhunter ‘Never Stops’

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:

We have remixed fellow Dane Trentemøller’s song Tide and he has made a killer remix of our song Raincoats. Together with Filter Magazine we are now hosting an artwork contest. You have the chance to create the official artwork for the digital release of this remix swop. Please give it a go! You can listen to the remixes and read about the artwork contest rules right here.

Efterklang – Raincoats (Trentemøller Remix)

Trentemøller – Tide (Efterklang Remix)

Trentemøller and Efterklang will pick the winner and as we have remixed each others music the challenge is to remix the artwork worlds of Trentemøller and Efterklang into something new. We would like to stress however that remix is to be understood loosely. All contesters are encouraged to create exactly the artwork they feel like, but it would be fun if the submissions are inspired by the artwork worlds of Efterklang and Trentemøller.

The contest aims at painters, photographers, graphic designers and visual artists in the widest sense, both young and old and established and non-established artists.

Contest Submission Guidelines:
1) Listen to the two remixes

2) Please email your image to atsn@senmail.de. Your submitted file should be a jpeg at 1200 x 1200 pixel size and 72dpi resolution. Filesizes exceeding 1MB will be rejected. Submission deadline: 05th August 2011. Submissions will be posted here as they come in: Flickr

3) Efterklang and Trentemøller will pick the winner(s) and the winning artwork will become the official cover of the release. The 10 best pieces of artwork will also be featured and credited in the official iTunes release‘s digital booklet.

Further prizes include Efterklang‘s „An Island“-DVD, Trentemøller‘s „Into The Great Wide Yonder“ limited edition and merchandise from both bands.

Win tickets for the theater play Som Hos Dig Står with Efterklang music. The play is in Danish and is a production of Teater Grob.
The tickets are for the pre-premiere on November 12th at Plex in Copenhagen. To read more about the play go here: in Danish / in English.

We have 10×2 tickets and to win 2 of these tickets you have to send an email to win@efterklang.net with the right answer to this question:

Som Hos Dig Står is the second play this year with music from Efterklang.
What is the name of the other Teater Grob play with Efterklang music?

Send your answer to win@efterklang.net before Wednesday 5th Nov 18pm. We will draw lots between the right answers to find the winners who will be notified by email.

xox
Efterklang

Hej alle danske venner.
2007 er snart forbi, og skribenterne hos både Gaffa og Ekstra Bladet har til stor glæde for os, valgt at kåre vores nyeste udgivelse Parades som årets album!

Gaffa har dog også en læserbestemt liste i ærmet kaldet Gaffa Prisen, og denne har du naturligvis indflydelse på. Afstemningen slutter Mandag d. 10. Dec. kl. 10 Så hvis du har lyst til at stemme med og måske vinde præmier, skal du følge dette link hurtigst muligt:
www.gaffa.dk/gaffaprisen2007/

Vi sætter stor pris på din stemme!
De bedste hilsner fra alle os
Rasmus, Mads, Thomas, Rune og Casper

Today, I found myself starring at this man and his rather impressive beard, for quite a while… Thought I wanted to share this with you:)
xxoo

A while ago our song Towards The Bare Hill from our mini-album Under Giant Trees was part of ThinkSynchFilms short film Competition.

We can now proudly present one of the results from this. Iyvone Khoo and Miguel Guzman from the UK have made a nice little video. Its a story of a girl puppet named Ping who is on a quest for freedom.

Iyvone and Michael would like to make an episode two of this story. They would like to hear from you what should happen to Ping now? Any suggestions? Please leave them as a comment

ThinkSync Films competition for independent filmmakers in association with the Raindance Film Festival, Blowback and Plan B magazine, requires entrants to produce a short film incorporating one or more tracks from a list submitted by independent labels and publishers…

There’s Lots of good music included & also one our songs “Towards the Bare Hill” from “Under Giant Trees”

If you’re curious, you’ll get wiser here; thinksyncfilms.com. Deadline is June 30th.