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.

A lot of you has asked us when An Island our collaborative film with Vincent Moon would be released on DVD and/or digitally. The answer is now!

Via the website for the film you can now either pay what your want for the Download package or you can pre-order the deluxe DVD package (incl. the Download Package).

THE DVD PACKAGE with BONUS LIVE EP + DOWNLOAD PACKAGE:
Via www.anisland.cc It is now possible to pre-order the DVD Deluxe Package of An Island. It is a limited and numbered edition of 5000 custom-made, eco-friendly, letterpress printed deluxe covers with a DVD disc full of extra material. The DVD package even comes with a new live EP; Efterklang – Live at Roskilde Festival 2010. This EP will only be made available as part of this DVD package – via a download code that will arrive with the DVD.

We expect to be able to ship the DVD packages at the latest in September. If you choose to pre-order you instantly get access to the Digital Download Package of An Island.

THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PACKAGE – PAY WHAT YOU WANT
Also via www.anisland.cc It is now possible to download An Island as a high quality .mov file and you choose the price. Besides the film the download package also holds the audio from the film as a 320kbps MP3 file.

VISIT WWW.ANISLAND.CC TO DOWNLOAD AN ISLAND AND/OR PRE-ORDER THE DVD PACKAGE.

Below the film poster we have copied in all the sweet details about the DVD release.

We would also like to inform you that An Island is scheduled for several official screenings over the next months. You can take a look at the Screenings program at anisland.cc/home/attend-a-screening.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE DETAIL ORIENTATED:

Digital Download Package:
An Island (48 minutes, English subtitles) in high resolution quality (1.7 GB mov file) + the audio from the film as a 320kbps mp3 file.

Deluxe DVD + Bonus EP + Digital Download Package:
DVD specifications: The DVD is region free and made to play on every DVD player on the market.

On the DVD you will find the following:
- An Island (48 minutes – English, Spanish and Japanese subtitles)
- two maybe three deleted performances that did not make it to the final cut of An Island
- the 33 minute long Vincent Moon film TemporaryCopenhagen featuring: Murder, Slaraffenland, Efterklang, Choir of Young Believers, Chimes & Bells + more
- one or maybe two older Efterklang Take-Away Show(s) by Vincent Moon.

The DVD packaging is designed by Hvass&Hannibal in close collaboration with Stumptown Printers:
- handmade production on Heidelberg Letterpress machines from the 1950s
- limited Edition of 5000 numbered copies.
- printed with vegetable based inks on heavyweight recycled paperboard
- 5 deluxe photo cards on recycled paperboard
- extensive booklet on recycled paper

BONUS EP specifications:
Efterklang – Live at Roskilde Festival 2010 is exclusively available as part of this An Island package. The live EP holds 5 songs performed by Efterklang in a unique 11-piece formation made especially for this Roskilde Festival concert, which was recorded by Danish National Radio (DR). The bonus EP will be available as a 320kbps MP3 via a download code delivered together with the An Island DVD.

Sharlene Chiu (of MTV Canada fame) recently came to Copenhagen to do a portrait of the city in her Sharlene vs. series. This short video shows you the bit where she visits Efterklang (represented by Thomas and Rasmus).

Rasmus shows Sharlene around his (and Nan Na Hvass’s) apartment and they talk about An Island their recent film collaboration with Vincent Moon.

We’re very happy to announce that we’ll premiere a brand new small film/story/music project called The Figment Notebook, made in collaboration with our long time friend and film maker Karim Ghahwagi.

The Figment Notebook is made for, and part of the program Audible Approaches for a better place, including a lot of great artists, and will premiere in Berlin at HKW (Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt) tomorrow (Thursday) evening, May 12th, 19:30, followed by a cd release in the fall.

Hope to see you there!

Audible Approaches for a better place
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This clip is in Danish only unfortunately, but it is sweet!
It is about An Island (the film by Vincent Moon & Efterklang) and the scene where we perform Alike with our parents.

Enjoy:

Please watch this video about the American Poverty project and visit their website afterwards americanpoverty.org

We provided the soundtrack (Modern Drift).

In January 2011, when we introduced the Private-Public Screening idea, as part of the AN ISLAND film release, we had no idea, what to expect. Over all we were hoping for around 200 Private-Public Screenings, during February & March, the period that we’d put aside for this experiment.

Now here we are on March 31st, the final day of the Private-Public Screenings project, with more than sixty screenings just on this very day. Everywhere from Beijing, China, over Mårslev, Denmark to Bogotá, Columbia, and a total of 1178 Private-Public Screenings during these past 2 months. It has been incredible to witness how the Private-Public Screening idea & the AN ISLAND film itself have been taking off and taken in by so many lovely people. We’ve received so much positive feedback and love during the past month, and even gained a gigantic collection of group photos from screenings all over the world (a few of them attached here).

THANK YOU ALL for welcoming Private-Public Screenings & AN ISLAND!

Very soon we will inform you about the future plans for the film. Please consider signing up for the newsletter if you wish to hear about these plans. And if you haven’t seen the film yet and is dying to do so, then check Twitter or Facebook tomorrow.

Have a look at all the group photos here
http://www.anisland.cc

It seems like An Island has taken on a life on its own. We are simply baffled by the reception and feedback on the film. There is a lot of things to be happy about but the Private-Public Screenings project is our favorite part.

Today the counter for approved and confirmed Private-Public Screenings of An Island says 1080! This is far beyond our wildest expectations.

A lot of the hosts send in group photos from their screenings. We love looking at these! Three of them are attached below. There are more than 200 of these at An Island’s flickr photo page.

We also have a google map that offers a geographical overview of all the screenings. A small map can be seen below. A bigger one is available at anisland.cc/home/about

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HOSTED or ATTENDED A SCREENING!
and THANKS TO VINCENT MOON FOR DOING THIS FILM WITH US!

The Private-Public Screening project ends March 31st. As the sign-up process needs 11 days the last day to sign up to host a screening is on Saturday – March 19th. The capacity needs to be mininum 5 people and the event must be free. You can read a lot more about the rules and details at anisland.cc/home/host-a-screening

If you would like to attend a screening you can find a list of all of them at anisland.cc/home/attend-a-screening

We recommend the screening on Sunday afternoon in Copenhagen March 20th. Peter Broderick will play live before the film screens and as a bonus Tape from Sweden will play a mini-concert after the film. We are hosting the event together with Filmmagasinet Ekko. Doors are at 15:00. Peter at 16:00. An Island at 17:00 and then Tape play a short set afterwards. Tickets are 30 kroner at the door. You can also buy a ticket at Efterklang’s concert March 18th in Amager Bio.

A Private-Public Screening in Ipoh, Malaysia

A Private-Public Screening in Moscow, Russia

A Private-Public Screening in Copenhagen, Denmark

THE GOOGLE MAP OF ALL SCREENINGS

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We are honored to receive the IMPALA award for European Independent Album of The Year!

Magic Chairs came out a year ago now and currently we are on our last tour with these songs. It is a really good tour so far, we just feel really happy about everything. The record we have made, the many concerts we’ve played, the Efterkids project and of course An Island – the film we have made with Vincent Moon. Once this tour finishes in Copenhagen on March 18th we will take a break before we start working on our 4th album, but we are already full of ideas and motivation for making our next album – can’t wait to get started!

Thanks to everyone who has supported us this past year. We are thankful that we are able to do this and we are grateful towards our many friends that help us in so many ways to create our records and to play concerts across the globe. Thank You!

Here is a goody video we did for IMPALA

EFTERKLANG – Thank You Message – IMPALA Award from IMPALA on Vimeo.

Last week we had a blast with our new project Efterklang+Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra at the Cross Linx Festival in Holland.

This week we started our tour with the 7-piece live band. So far we have played in Cardiff, Sheffield, Glasgow and Manchester. All four shows have been incredible – thank you all!!

This weekend we end the UK part of the tour in Newcastle and London and then we continue to Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Germany and finally Copenhagen on March 18th.

When we played in Glasgow this thursday Jenny Soup was present and did this drawing of us. Daniel James (of Canon Blue) is missing in the drawing though as he was behind Casper and Rasmus from where Jenny stood in the audience. The Guardian gave us a 5 star review for the same concert – wow!

Here are all the remaining dates:

26.02 – NEWCASTLE GATESHEAD, UK / The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two / + screening of An Island / tickets
27.02 – LONDON, UK / Scala / + screening of An Island / tickets

March
01.03 – BRUSSELS, BE / Botanique / + screening of An Island / tickets
02.03 – TBA
03.03 – LYON (Feyzin), FR / Epicerie Moderne / + screening of An Island / tickets
04.03 – AARAU, CH / KIFF / + screening of An Island / tickets
05.03 – BASEL, CH / Hinterhof / + screening of An Island /
06.03 – ZÜRICH, CH / Stall 6 + screening of An Island / tickets
08.03 – VIENNA, A / Szene / + screening of An Island / tickets
09.03 – KOSICE, Slovakia / Memento More Festival @ Tabacka Kulturfabrik / + screening of An Island / tickets
10.03 – PRAGUE, CZ / Meet Factory / + screening of An Island / tickets
11.03 – LEIPZIG, DE / Centraltheater / + screening of An Island / tickets
12.03 – BREMEN, DE / Lagerhaus / + screening of An Island / tickets
13.03 – BERLIN, DE / Volksbühne /+ screening of An Island / tickets
14.03 – FRANKFURT, DE / Brotfabrik / + screening of An Island / tickets
15.03 – DORTMUND, DE / Konzerthaus / + screening of An Island / tickets
16.03 – HAMBURG, DE / Knust / + screening of An Island / tickets
17.03 – ROSTOCK, DE / Mau / + screening of An Island / tickets
18.03 – COPENHAGEN, DK / Amager Bio / tickets