Budgie (of Siouxsie and The Banshees and The Creatures fame) will be our drummer, when we perform our new album Piramida in Sydney Opera House May 26th!

He is amazing and a very lovely fellow.
He is replacing Toby Dammit who had to step in and help The Stooges with their tour.

Tickets for The Piramida Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Sydney Opera House can be bought at Vivid Live´s website.
We have also started to announce a list of Piramida Concerts with Orchestras in the fall. You can find details at the Concerts section.

We are rehearsing, rehearsing rehearsing and rehearsing this week. Here is a video of Budgie rehearsing a drum part for a new song:

We are super busy finishing our coming album Piramida and also preparing for the Sydney Opera House concert this month, but are also excited to tell you that we have just announced three Piramida Concerts in Denmark.

The conductor will be André de Ridder and we will be performing with the Copenhagen Phil orchestra also known as Sjællands Symfoniorkester.

THE PIRAMIDA CONCERTS IN DENMARK

October 2012:
10 COPENHAGEN – Konservatoriets Koncertsal (Det Gamle Radiohus) / info
11 FREDERIKSVÆRK – Gjethuset / info
12 HELSINGØR – Kulturværftet / info

Our dear friend and live band member Peter Broderick (US) will open all concerts with a solo concert.

Two weeks ago it was announced that we will premiere our new album Piramida May 26th live at Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony (info&tickets).

Today we are very happy to announce six additional orchestra concerts of our new album Piramida (which is due for release later this year after the summer).

Together with the Northern Sinfonia and the conductor André de Ridder we will performing at some of England’s and Scotland’s finest concert halls in October 2012.

Hope to see you there! We can’t wait for October.
For more background info on this tour please visit this site. Please also visit Music Beyond Mainstream who is the kind organization behind this incredible tour.

THE PIRAMIDA CONCERTS IN UK

October 2012:
23 GATESHEAD, NEWCASTLE – The Sage / info&tickets
24 EDINBURGH – Usher Hall / info&tickets
27 COVENTRY – Warwick Arts Centre / info&tickets
28 BRIGHTON – Dome / info&tickets
29 MANCHESTER – Bridgewater Hall / info&tickets
30 LONDON – Barbican / info&tickets

Beautiful! The Sage is one of the venues included in the tour

Are we happy and proud about this? YES!
Are we excited and equally scared? YES indeed!

It is our utmost pleasure to tell you that May 26th 2012 we will be performing live in Sydney Opera House together with the Sydney Symphony orchestra.

The concert will be the world premiere of our new album, which will be released later in 2012 on 4AD and Rumraket.

Our new album also has a title. We’re calling it Piramida.

For more information about the concert including tickets go here.

We are currently working intensely on the album – the previous post on this site gives you a little update. For the concert we have engaged composers Missy Mazzoli (Kronos Quartet, Victoire), Karsten Fundal (Under Byen, Choir of Young Believers) and Daniel Bjarnason (Sigur Rós, Múm) to help our new songs to fully integrate with the Sydney Symphony orchestra, which will be conducted by Matthew Coorey.

We will be performing as a six-piece, augmented by Peter Broderick (piano), Katinka Fogh Vindelev (choir) and Toby Dammit (drums). As earlier told, founding member Thomas recently left Efterklang and Toby Dammit will be his replacement in Sydney. Toby has played drums for amazing people like Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright and many others.

a new Efterklang protrait – taken by Rasmus Weng Karlsen, 2012

As hinted already we´ve been writing and recording a new album since August 2011 now. It feels great and we have the pleasure of recording with nice people like Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, Earl Harvin and musicians from Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra.

To follow our process closer we recommend our Twitter page and Flickr page.

Below are some photos and videos from recent recordings in Berlin.

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.

With Love, Thomas

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

www.audible-approaches.csides.net
www.karimghahwagi.com
www.efterklang.net
www.csides.net

Description

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

Happy 1st December Everyone!

If you are planning on purchasing the An Island DVD for you or someone special for christmas, then please take note of these dates below.

LAST POSTAL DATES TO RECEIVE AN ISLAND IN TIME FOR XMAS:

Thursday 1st December:
South & Central America,
Caribbean, Africa, Middle East,
Far East, Asia, New Zealand
and Australia

Wednesday 7th December:
Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe

Thursday 8th December:
Western Europe

Friday 16th December:
UK

An Island can be ordered via this website at www.anisland.cc/home

When ordering the DVD you also get the bonus Efterklang EP: Live at Roskilde Festival 2010. Here is a song from that EP.

Efterklang – The Soft Beating (Live at Roskilde Festival 2010) by Efterklang

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 at WWW.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):

Get more info & see more photos of the DVD at: WWW.ANISLAND.CC/HOME