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.

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

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

We provided the soundtrack (Modern Drift).

Three months ago in August we met up with our friend and French filmmaker Vincent Moon on an island in the Danish country side. The objective was to shoot a film. A film with the same length as an album and a film full of performances, experiments and collaborations.

We were there with our 8-piece live band featuring Niklas Antonson (Slaraffenland), Heather Broderick, Peter Broderick and Frederik Teige. Over an intense period of 4 days we managed to collaborate with more than 200 local musicians, kids and parents.

Today we are able to present the very first teaser of this film and we can also let you know that the film will premiere in February 2011.

We value An Island as much as we value our albums. We consider it one of the finest projects we have ever been involved in and can’t wait to share it with you.

Please enjoy the teaser below
- but if you want the full experience then please visit: WWW.ANISLAND.CC

Soundvenue.com is hosting the documentary on their site for a week.
Recreating Parades takes you behind the scene of the Performing Parades Concert we did last year with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra.

The documentary can also be found on our newest release Performing Parades and it is made by Ralf Christensen and Anders Bøtter.

WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY HERE (please note this version is without subtitles)

Hello all

Here’s a sneak preview from our forthcoming CD/DVD and 2LP/DVD release (October 19th 2009) performing Parades. Recorded in Copenhagen with The National Danish Chamber Orchestra

Caravan (live):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6QtcwR_fMw

Cutting Ice To Snow (live):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRNFnpd160

The CD/DVD and LP/DVD features the complete performance with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra in audio format + a 55-minute concert film directed by Benjamin Hesselholdt. The DVD also includes a behind the scenes documentary (with English and Danish subtitles) of the preparations for the event + a lot of other bonus material.

Pre-order:
via Leaf leaf.greedbag.com
via Efterklang - Rumraket.com/shop

For those of you who haven’t heard it yet, we’re Performing Parades with the Britten Sinfonia on October 28th in Barbican Hall in London, UK. The splendid Norwegian collective Jaga Jazzist have been named as support for the concert in a very rare UK performance, so this looks like an extremely exciting evening!

You can find out more and buy tickets here:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=9377

Also, we’re doing a month long tour of “regular” shows after the London date around the UK, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Turkey (yep, we finally making our way to Istanbul!) previewing tracks from our third studio album, to be released by 4AD next year. You can find the (almost) complete tour right here

With love from all of us

We are very happy to announce that we will be touring in Denmark this November as part of the brilliant CPH:DOX documentary film festival.

At all of these 4 concerts we will first show the Performing Parades concert film directed by Benjamin Hesselholdt and then after a short break we will play live as a 7-piece band focusing on new material from our upcoming third studio album (out in 2010).

The dates are the following:
11.11 – Copenhagen, DK / DOX:CLUB / tickets
12.11 – Copenhagen, DK / DOX:CLUB / tickets
13.11 – Aarhus, DK / Musikhuset Århus / CPH:DOX tour / tickets
14.11 – Odense, DK / Posten / CPH:DOX tour / tickets

More general info can be found via the CPH:DOX website

September 6th we played an absolutely lovely and new festival called Into The Great Wide Open. The festival took place on the tiny island Vlieland (see google map below) in the Wadden sea outside the shore of northern Holland.

This link gives you two of new songs performed acoustic in a lighthouse!
www.3voor12.vpro.nl/tv/#/42393647/42485083/6

This link gives you our entire performance at Into The Great Wide Open.
www.3voor12.vpro.nl/tv/#/42393647/42490605/0

Everything is filmed and produced by VPRO / 3VOOR12 Nice people!!

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Hello! as you might know we will release Performing Parades our new CD&DVD & LP/DVD (live album and concert film) on October 19th 2009. The release is a collaboration with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra and everything was recorded live in Copenhagen last year.

In Denmark the release will be available via our own record label Rumraket
- click here for more info

In rest of the world the release will be available via The Leaf Label
- click for more info

Pre-order here: http://leaf.greedbag.com/buy/performing-parades-0/

The release is a new and live interpretation of our Parades album from 2007. The CD & LP part of Performing Parades holds the live audio of Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra playing the songs from Parades from start to finish in new arrangements. In many ways we actually think this version of Parades is stronger and better than the original Parades album.

The DVD part of this release holds a 55-minute concert film by Benjamin Hesselholdt entitled Performing Parades. The DVD also holds a 35-minute behind the scenes documentary entitled Recreating Parades by Ralf Christensen and Anders Bøtter. On top of all this you also get 6 music videos from the original Parades album and also an acoustic live performance of Mirador. We hope you will find all of this interesting!

We should also mention that we will be TOURING MOST OF THE FALL AS A 7-PIECE! click here for dates

Included in the tour is a PERFORMING PARADES CONCERT with BRITTEN SINFONIA in BARBICAN HALL, LONDON on October 28th – click here for tickets

AND FINALLY – This is how the front cover will look like! It is made by our favorite designers/artists Hvass&Hannibal

- Take care

When we attendend the SXSW Festival in Austin back in March one of the shows we played was a lawn party hosted by Other Music and Dig For Fire. It was in a nice green garden behind the French Legation Museum and besides a very stressed performance due to technical issues it was such a nice day.

The nice people from Dig For Fire just emailed us to say that their videos from the party now are online at Babelgum.com. If you follow this link you can see one of the episodes featuring yours truly and J Tillman of Fleet Foxes.

Watch Efterklang and J Tillman on babelgum.com

this photo is from the garden party – most beautiful merch sale ever!