Today was a great day, felt like one of the hottest so far this year. And Darren was as happy as always. Sweet cake & yellow presents

From today Slaraffenland´s new mindblowing and acclaimed album Private Cinema can be bought as “drm free” mp3´s at Rumraket´s own MP3 store!

The album has just been selected as Rock album of the week at Radium on P2 on Danish National Radio. Buy it and find out why!

The cd version of the album which comes in a beautiful package made by Friends With You will be released June 25th. You can pre-order it at Dotshop.

Fun facts! Niklas from Slaraffenland is in Efterklang as well and their album is recorded on the same equipment we made our Tripper album on!

Slaraffenland is release number 9 on our little Rumraket label and 26th of May they play live in Copenhagen with Paul Duncan! Don´t miss it - tickets here.

So far 5 auctions has ended and we have collected 213£! Over the next 6 days another 5 auctions will end, so go make a bid if you fancy a highly limited and rare Efterklang vinyl and sametime you would like to support the dying rainforest.

All revenue will be forwarded to the Danish Organisation Nepenthes, who since 1989 has bought up land to secure and preserve untouched rainforest.

click this photo to go to the Ebay auctions, you will find all relevant info here

We have been looking forward to this. Finally we are ready to share our new homepage with you. This site is very easy for us to use and also very easy for you, our dear visitor, to use. So please feel free to write comments and explore our new home on the net!

Because this is sort of a housewarming we are giving away a new download. It is a cover of our song Step Aside by the swedish musician Tobias Hellkvist. We like his version extremely much and hope that you will too!

Download: Step Aside (Efterklang cover by Tobias Hellkvist) as mp3.

Jonas Lindgren - our new friend

We owe a lot of gratitude to another swede for helping us fix and program this new site. Jonas Lindgren is a true gentleman and internet wiz! He has spend hours on programming this site! He also makes experimental music and runs a very nice blog. By the way, the header and footer illustrations on this site are made by Nan Na Hvass. They are part of the massive amount of art she has put together for our coming mini-album release Under Giant Trees.

Yes, today it is Mads birthday and he’s now 26. So we had a gorgeous piece of cake and a fine cup of coffee, while Thomas played him a cheesy birthday song on his trumpet to complete the happiness:) Hurrah hurrah…

We gave mads a Kinky Friedman tshirt…

Mads Brauer and Casper Clausen from Efterklang have been nominated for a Robert by the Danish Film Academy. It is sort of the Danish oscar. The nomination is for best film score for the film Princess. The score Mads and Casper wrote for Princess is their first score ever so that makes them extra happy to get this nomination. Princess is directed by Anders Morgenthaler.

Still photo from Princess. The film is 80% animation and 20% real film.