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.

Listen to the session here: www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/efterklang

P.S. Do you remember our chord project from that same tour? One of them was made in the same studio – link

Saturday July 30th we will be playing the last concert of the year. It will be a Efterklang + Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra concert and we are so happy to get the chance to play one last time with this special 17-piece band. As reported already the band consists of Efterklang (with Peter Broderick, Heather Woods Broderick and Daniel James (Canon Blue) + the icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason + a brass quartet + a sax quartet and a classical percussionist.

The support for the concert will also be special! Heather Woods Broderick, Canon Blue and the 4 Messing saxes will all share the stage for 30 minutes that you don’t want to miss. Heather and Canon Blue will be playing songs from their solo records and the Messing saxes will play music of Artvark.

The concert is part of the Reich Effect Festival celebrating Steve Reich’s 75th year birthday.

30.07 / CORK, IE / Efterklang+Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra
@ Savoy Theatre / part of Reich Effect Festival organized by Cork Opera House

With special support concert featuring: Heather Woods Broderick, The Messing Saxes play music of Artvark & Canon Blue

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Cork Opera House has invited Efterklang + Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra to perform at The Reich Effect. A festival in Cork celebrating American composer Steve Reich.

This will be the very very last concert we do for a long time as we will begin working on a new album soon.

30.07 / CORK, IE / Efterklang + Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra
@ Savoy Theatre / part of Reich Effect Festival organized by Cork Opera House
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Efterklang+Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra is a special 17 piece band that debuted at the Cross Linx festival tour in February earlier this year.

It is the 7-piece Efterklang live band with Daniel James (of Canon Blue) on guitar, Heather Broderick on piano and Peter Broderick on vibes and steel drum.

And then we have the brilliant Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason on Rhodes and then you add a saxophone quartet, a brass quartet and a classic percussionist. This all turns into Efterklang + Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra. We will be playing Efterklang songs with arrangements for the Messing Orchestra by Daniel Bjarnason.

We are honored to be invited to play this concert and the whole festival program looks amazing to us. More info here about the festival.

Here are some videos recorded back in February:

You should also take a look at Dennis Stempher’s website. He followed us for 4 days and took so many nice photos like the one below.

We are starting rehearsals today with the full band and we are über excited! This might be the best band line-up for an Efterklang concert ever!!!

It is the usual 7-piece Efterklang live band with Daniel James (of Canon Blue) on guitar, Heather Broderick on piano and Peter Broderick on vibes and steel drum.

And then we have the brilliant Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason on Rhodes and then you add a saxophone quartet, a brass quartet and a classic percussionist

This all turns into Efterklang+Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra – our new 17 piece band!

We will be playing Efterklang songs with arrangements for the Messing Orchestra by Daniel Bjarnason.

We are playing 4 concerts with this special band this week. We will be visiting Utrecht, Eindhoven, Groningen and Rotterdam and all shows are part of the CrossLinx Festival. The National and Owen Pallett are also on the bill and so is a line of other incredible artists.

In less than three weeks we will play our two first concerts in Brazil ever! Actually our first concerts in South America ever. Lets hope it will be the first visit of many more in the future.

The flights are booked and right now we are just waiting for our VISAs to go in order. Hopefully they will soon and if you live in Sao Paulo or near we hope to see you at the two concerts!

28.01 / Sao Paulo, BR / SESC Belenzinho / w. Søren Bebe Trio / tickets
29.01 / Sao Paulo, BR / SESC Belenzinho / w. Jakob Davidsen / tickets

Today we can reveal the 2nd teaser for AN ISLAND, the film we are working on with French director Vincent Moon. The film will have the same length as an album and in it you can see us in several musical experiments and collaborations with more than 200 kids, parents and local musicians on a very special island in the Danish country side.

Today we can also announce the first 23 official screenings of the film. We will take the film with us on tour in February and March and before all the concerts (except in NL and DK) we will be screening An Island.

The teasers can both be watched at the website for the film WWW.ANISLAND.CC and also at our Vimeo account. More teasers will come soon and it should also be mentioned that we have very exciting and democratic plans for how An Island will premiere in early February. We will be needing your kind assistance so stay tuned please!

AN ISLAND SCREENINGS
21.02 – Bristol, UK / Cube Cinema / screening only / free entrance
22.02 – Cardiff, UK / The Globe / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
23.02 – Sheffield, UK / Queens Social Club / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
24.02 – Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
25.02 – Manchester, UK / Academy 3 / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
26.02 – Newcastle, UK / The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
27.02 – London, UK / Scala / + Efterklang (live) / tickets

March
01.03 – Brussels, BE / Botanique / + Efterklang (live)
02.03 – TBA
03.03 – Lyon, FR / Epicerie Moderne / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
04.03 – Aarau, CH / KIFF / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
05.03 – Chur, CH / Kulturhaus / + Efterklang (live)
06.03 – Zürich, CH / Stall 6 / + Efterklang (live)
08.03 – Vienna, A / Szene / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
09.03 – Kosice, Slovakia / Tabacka Kulturfabrik / + Efterklang (live)
10.03 – Prague, CZ / Meet Factory / + Efterklang (live)
11.03 – Leipzig, DE / Centraltheater / + Efterklang (live)
12.03 – Bremen, DE / Lagerhaus / + Efterklang (live)
13.03 – Berlin, DE / Volksbühne / + Efterklang (live)
14.03 – Frankfurt, DE / Brotfabrik / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
15.03 – Dortmund DE / Konzerthaus / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
16.03 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
17.03 – Rostock, DE / Mau / + Efterklang (live) /
20.03 – Copenhagen, DK / Amager Bio / + Peter Broderick (live) / 30kr at door

PETER BRODERICK (live) & SCREENING IN COPENHAGEN

Efterklang will play live in Copenhagen in Amager Bio on March 18th, but we will not be screening the film this day. Together with Filmmagasinet Ekko we will present Peter Broderick live and a screening of An Island in Amager Bio on Sunday March 20th instead. It will be an seated afternoon concert and screening and it will only cost 30 kroner to get in and enjoy Peter’s incredible live performance and to watch An Island on Amager Bio’s huge screen.

Tickets will not be sold in advance, but at the door, and also at Efterklang’s concert on March 18th. However you should note that advance tickets for Efterklang’s concert in Amager Bio on March 18th are available from http://www.billetlugen.dk/musik/14075/, and the first 150 tickets to be sold will give entrance to both events (March 18 and March 20) in Amager Bio.

We have just announced two more dates for our final Magic Chairs Tour in February and March. March 1st we will play in Brussels at Botanique and then we will end the tour with a big homecoming concert in Copenhagen on March 18th at Amager Bio.

Our last Magic Chairs Tour holds 27 concerts and once it is over we will take a long break from touring. In fact we plan not to play a single concert before we have finished our 4th album sometime in the far future. With this tour we will finish almost 3,5 years of non stop touring and it has been an adventure. An incredible adventure.

01.03.2011 – Brussels, BE / Botanique /
18.03.2011 – Copenhagen, DK / Amager Bio / tickets on sale Dec 9th

Please visit EFTERKLANG.NET/HOME/CONCERTS for all upcoming concert dates! Shows in Belgium, Turkey, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Rep., Germany & Denmark coming up!

Efterklang in Teatro Lara, Madrid – photo by evasee.com

Dear Emma, Carlista, Liselotte, Esther, Cato & Mira

You were so good! We will never forget the concert we played with you yesterday!
Keep playing music and being so cool and happy!

And thanks to your teacher Yumika as well!

PLEASE WATCH THIS TV REPORT BY TV BRUSSELS! Magnifique!!!
http://tvbrussel.be/video/13/brusselse-efterkids-deense-sferen

best wishes
Thomas, Mads, Casper, Frederik, Heather, Niklas and Rasmus

This week we play three concerts in Belgium (and one in Istanbul) and for the concert in Brussels we are happy to announce that we will be joined by 6 local Efterkids!

Efterkids is our attempt to raise awareness for the need for free music education in schools. It also works as a project that makes it possible for us to collaborate with kids across the globe in real life on stages but also online via the course material available at www.efterkids.com

For the concert at AB (Ancience Belgique) on Wednesday Yumika Lecluyze who teaches at the music school of Sint Agatha Berchem will bring 6 of her students who has been rehearsing on the string parts for Natural Tune and Full Moon the last couple of weeks. We look forward to meet the kids and play music with them. We don’t know their names yet, but we know that they are 8,10 and 11 years old and that Yumika teaches them after the Suzuki Method.

This is a list of the concerts we are playing this week:
(more concerts can be found here: www.efterklang.net/home/concerts)

24.11 – Brussels, BE / AB Club (Spot on Denmark) / WITH EFTERKIDS / Tickets
25.11 – Hasselt, BE / Cultuurcentrum Hasselt / Tickets
26.11 – Roeselare, BE / Cultuurcentrum De Spil / Tickets
27.11 – Istanbul, TR / Babylon / Tickets

PLEASE VISIT THE EFTERKIDS SITE AT WWW.EFTERKIDS.COM

As you might know we will be on the road in November in Denmark, Liverpool, Belgium, Istanbul, Spain, Lisbon, Russia & Uppsala. But we also just announced a full European tour in February and March 2011.

This will be the absolute last chance to see Efterklang perform live for a considerable amount of time. After this tour we will take a break and when we get back together we will begin the work for our 4th album and we have decided that there won’t be any Efterklang concerts before this album is finished.

The tour in 2011 will be special as it is the last, but also because of the first 4 shows that will be very special and then we have a very special support act/event lined up for the rest of the tour. We look forward to announce this soon.

Once this last tour is over we will have played more than 340 concerts since October 2007. It feels like we have been on tour almost constantly. We have loved every second of it and would just like to say thanks for the ride!

FINAL MAGIC CHAIRS TOUR 2011
for the November & December concerts 2010 click here

CROSS LINX Festival TOUR as:
Efterklang + Daniel Bjarnason & their Messing Orchestra
17.02 Utrecht, NL / Vredenburg / info w. The National & Owen Pallett
18.02 Eindhoven, NL / Frits Philips / info w. The National & Owen Pallett
19.02 Groningen, NL / De Oosterpoort / info w. The National & Owen Pallett
20.02 Rotterdam, NL / De Doelen / info w. The National & Owen Pallett

FINAL MAGIC CHAIRS TOUR with the 7-piece live band:
22.02 – Cardiff, UK / The Globe / tickets
23.02 – Sheffield, UK / Queens Social Club / DrownedinSound Events / tickets
24.02 – Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor / tickets
25.02 – Manchester, UK / Academy 3 / tickets
26.02 – Newcastle Gateshead, UK / The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two
27.02 – London, UK / Scala / tickets

March
01.03 – TBA
02.03 – TBA
03.03 – Lyon, FR / Epicerie Moderne
04.03 – Aarau, CH / KIFF
05.03 – Chur, CH / Kulturhaus
06.03 – Zürich, CH / Stall 6
08.03 – Vienna, A / Szene / tickets
09.03 – Kosice, Slovakia / Tabacka Kulturfabrik
10.03 – Prague, CZ / Meet Factory
11.03 – Leipzig, DE / Centraltheater
12.03 – Bremen, DE / Lagerhaus
13.03 – Berlin, DE / Volksbühne
14.03 – Frankfurt, DE / Brotfabrik / tickets
15.03 – Dortmund DE / Konzerthaus / tickets
16.03 – Hamburg, DE / Knust /
17.03 – Rostock, DE / Mau

And here is a new Efterklang photo!

photo taken by Luca Venter