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

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

We just got the great news that the amazing Norwegian band Jaga Jazzist is going to support us at the Barbican concert in London on October 28th, when we’re performing Parades with the Britten Sinfonia

This is going to be pretty special:)

Tickets are for sale here:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=9377

Hope to see you!
x

Wow, what a nice surprise! Today we realized that the music video for our song Mirador just hit the 1.000.000 views mark on Youtube, with no cheating involved:) That never happened for any other Efterklang video before, so this feels kind of special!

The video was made by our good friends Hvass & Hannibal & UFEX, who also did the cover art for our album Parades which Mirador belongs to. Thank you both so much!!!

If you haven’t watched it yet, you can do it right here

With love from a sunny Copenhagen
Thomas, Mads, Rasmus, Casper

PS. Also, the two amazing kids Molly & Jojo from America did a wonderful remake of the video

With new pictures from the recent Parades concert in Copenhagen and our China tour!

Have a look here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/efterklang-recordings/

Love from all of us
Casper

Photo by Peter Broderick

Tomorrow/today (Friday, September 26th), is the big concert day! We’ll perform Parades from start till end with the National Danish Chamber Orchestra, and we’ve been looking forward to this for a long long time…

During the this week we’ve been rehearsing with the orchestra, and today we played the entire concert for the first time; an amazing experience!!! Besides the musical joy, it’s such a great pleasure following the process of the incredible scenography by Hvass&Hannibal and the magical light setting!!!

Apparently, both concerts are sold out, so we can only welcome those of you who already bought a ticket. Hopefully we’ll get another chance to do this sometime in the future…

Much love from all of us

A couple of journalists from DR (danish national radio) followed our very first rehearsals with the big orchestra a couple of weeks back:

http://dr.dk/Musik/Artikler/2008/09/19090226.htm

xo
Casper

NB: It appears only to stream on PC though!