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.

We are very happy that this beast is finally released! It was A LOT of hard work to get to here and we hope the results will be enjoyed and appreciated. It is available from today as CD+DVD and LP+DVD – enjoy! We are also very happy to see it has received great reviews so far. If you are curious we recommend the BBC review (in English) and the Gaffa review (in Danish).

Listen toCutting Ice to Snow (live) (w. The Danish National Chamber Orchestra)

We would like to use this opportunity to thank The Danish National Chamber Orchestra & Karl Bjerre Skibsted, Benjamin Hesselholdt & and his film crew, Ralf Christensen and Anders Bøtter, Hvass&Hannibal & all their helpers, Jesper Andersen and not least Karsten Fundal for breathing new life into our songs. These people have worked tremendously hard and great on this project and we are very thankful to them and to the many others that have helped who we didn’t list here.

Performing Parades can be found on iTunes and on other digital outlets, but we recommend the physical version. This is the only way to get the DVD which includes the Performing Parades concert film and the Recreating Parades documentary film and also 7 music videos from the original Parades album.

You can buy Performing Parades on CD+DVD or LP+DVD via The Leaf Label’s shop or via Efterklang’s own webshop.

NOTE: The DVD is Region Free, and should be viewable worldwide!

We will be touring from October 28th to December 5th around Europe to support this release. ALL DATES CAN BE FOUND HERE

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

Yes we are indeed. Please come by if you are around. It was so much fun last time and we hope for the same tonight. As last time we are very bad at fulfilling requests, but if you bring your favorite song on a cd-r or iPod we will play it (if we like it)!

The party starts at 22:00
The address is Guldbergsgade 7A – Copenhagen N – www.soupanatural.dk
Their cocktails are very very good and as organic as cocktails can be!

Casper and I are DJ´ing from 22:00 to 02:00
More info here: www.myspace.com/soupanatural
and especially on Facebook – click here for info

hope to see you!

xox
Rasmus

The notorious website Pitchfork has publicized their top 40 of Music Videos of 2008. We are proud and honored to see that the video directed by Jeremiah Zagar for our song Cutting Ice To Snow is among their favorites!

You can see the entire list here: Pitchfork – Best Videos of 2008
And here is the video:

It is Friday today, the weekend has almost already started and we are at the last day of The Efterklang Gift Week. As this is the farewell to the Gift Week we have a lot of stuff for you today.

First we present to you a remix of First Floor Power´s God Damn Your Fingers. The remix is made by Casper Clausen from Efterklang and this might be his first official work ever in his own name!
Visit: First Floor Power – Listen to the original version
Download: God Damn Your Fingers – Casper Clausen remix Mp3

Then next we have two videos!
A new video for Doppelgänger from our album Tripper (2004) and a video for Mimeo from our album Parades (2007). The last one has been online for some time but we never presented it properly as it truly deserve. Please enjoy the videos we think they are brilliant both of them.

EFTERKLANG Doppelgänger by Matt Brown

EFTERKLANG Mimeo by Jerren Lauder and Andrew DeYoung

ENJOY YOUR WEEKENDS!

Efterklang

Hello again!
It is already day 4 and todays gifts will both be from Rumraket – the record label that we run.

DOWNLOAD: Im a Machine
First off is a free MP3 from the new Sunshine EP by Slaraffenland. These guys are currently touring Europe so go to their website and see if they are playing near you! If you would like to read more about the new and very limited and handmade Sunshine EP then go here: myspace.com/rumraket/blog.

Next gift today is a new video for Canon Blue´s Pilguin Pop which can be found on his debut album Colonies from last year. The video is directed and animated by Robjn from Cambridge UK. You can learn more about Robjn by visiting him here. Canon Blue aka Daniel James lives in Nashville, USA and you can visit him here: myspace.com/canonblue

Hello friend and a very happy Wednesday to you!
It is Day 3 of our Gift Week and today we have something very special for you! It is a new music video for our song Cutting Ice To Snow made by Jeremiah Zagar and Herzliya Films from New York.

Jeremiah is currently riding a wave of acclaim and success for his documentary film In a Dream. The film uses Efterklang music and that is how and why this video developed. The material used in the video is deleted scenes and extra material for the documentary. We really like this video! It is very uplifting and different at the same time. We hope you will like it too!

ENJOY!
You can download it as a high quality quicktime here (44mb)
or you can watch it below:

Redrop was released on our debut mini-album Springer in May 2003. This free MP3 is a cover version made by Josh Childs. We don´t know much about Josh. He emailed us this cover and we like it very very much! Thats basically all we know about Josh.

If Josh reads this then maybe he can comment with some info about himself and his music?

ENJOY!
Redrop covered by Josh Childs

Download as MP3

If this made you curious you can listen to the orignal Redrop right here:

Good Evening! A little late on this fine Monday we are now ready to kick off the Efterklang Gift Week!

This week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) we have presents for you every single day! It will be new videos, mp3s and other nice things like that.

First present will be a world premiere of a new Efterklang video directed by Rasmus Bro! The video is for Horseback Tenors and it features stop motion images shot in our hometown Copenhagen!

You can download a high resolution video using this link: Quicktime (46 mb)
And you can watch it as a youtube video below: