artwork by Hvass&Hannibal – click cover to buy single on iTunes

Here is some more info on our new Raincoats single. It was released as a digital single Monday this week (23rd August 2010) on 4AD and our own Rumraket label. This is the tracklist:

01: Raincoats (single edit)
02: Harmonics (covered by Peter Broderick & Nils Frahm)

Raincoats is the third single taken from our Magic Chairs album. The two previous ones were Modern Drift and I Was Playing Drums. The single version of Raincoats differs a tiny bit from the album version, hence the “single edit” extension to the name.

Track two is a cover of Harmonics (another Magic Chairs song) and we love this cover version! It is played and recorded by our two friends Peter Broderick and Nils Frahm. Both are incredible solo artists and you should buy every record they have ever made.

As many of you know Peter Broderick has taken a break from the Efterklang live-band recently due to a knee injury, but we are happy to confirm once again that he will be with us on the upcoming North American tour. All dates can be found at Efterklang.net/home/concerts

The artwork for Raincoats is made by Hvass&Hannibal and follows the same hand dyed ribbon theme as can be seen on the covers for Magic Chairs, Modern Drift and I Was Playing Drums.

BUY LINKS: iTunes (DK) – iTunes (UK) – eMusic

Greetings!
This will be short post followed by a longer once we get back to Denmark. We are in Wales right now.

Today August 23rd we release our new single Raincoats from our Magic Chairs album. It is out digitally bundled with a sweet cover of Harmonics made by Peter Broderick and Nils Frahm. GET IT ON iTUNES

Today we also release new deluxe reissue versions of our albums Tripper and Parades including the EPs Springer and Under Giant Trees.

The new reissue versions comes as double CDs including a 16 page booklet and also two bonus tracks. You can read more about the releases via The Leaf Label. You can buy the reissues now using our webshop: Rumraket.com/shop or the Leaf Shop

More info coming soon – enjoy your Mondays!

xo
Efterklang

It’s been out of stock for years, but not anymore! The Leaf Label have made a new print! The 2nd print is totally identical to the original. No weird bonus tracks or new artwork. Just the album as it was made and meant to look and be.

You can buy it from The Leaf Label directly
Or from Efterklang directly via our Rumraket Shop.

All orders via www.Rumraket.com/shop will come with a free 7″ I Was Playing Drums Single! This one hasn’t even been released yet!! (more info on the new single here). The special offer ends Friday at Midnight!

PS. Efterklang will begin their European Tour on Monday in Oslo! Check it out!

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

as you know we are touring North America these days and therefore we have created a special Tour-EP to sell at the shows. It carries 6 live recordings and comes in handmade packaging. We have only made 250 copies of these and they can only be bought at our American shows…
enjoy!!

Caravan our new single is available digitally @
iTunes – emusic

The digital version holds 4 tracks
01 Caravan
02 The Romance on Mammoth Hill
03 Caravan (Max de Wardener Remix)
04 Mirador (Vincent Oliver Remix)

The single is also out as a limited 7 inch vinyl. It’s available on posteverything.com

Please have a look at the video directed by Anders Morgenthaler!! It is produced by CopenhagenBombay and we owe great thanks to everybody who was involved!

watch a 35MB quicktime in good quality here: Caravan as quicktime movie

Hej alle danske venner.
2007 er snart forbi, og skribenterne hos både Gaffa og Ekstra Bladet har til stor glæde for os, valgt at kåre vores nyeste udgivelse Parades som årets album!

Gaffa har dog også en læserbestemt liste i ærmet kaldet Gaffa Prisen, og denne har du naturligvis indflydelse på. Afstemningen slutter Mandag d. 10. Dec. kl. 10 Så hvis du har lyst til at stemme med og måske vinde præmier, skal du følge dette link hurtigst muligt:
www.gaffa.dk/gaffaprisen2007/

Vi sætter stor pris på din stemme!
De bedste hilsner fra alle os
Rasmus, Mads, Thomas, Rune og Casper

Parades has been released digital! If you are an iTunes user you can buy the album now right here. If you want better quality mp3 you can get that at Posteverything.com! You can also pre-order the physical album there…

We are rehearsing so much these days! Getting ready for the tour!

All the great artists who we play live are members of our new live-band!! (except for the surprise!!)
Please come and celebrate the release with us! Free Miller Beers from 19:00 until we run dry…

Sorry this post is not about the legendary Ninja Hero Turtles except from this post having 4 different stories as there are 4 Ninja Turtles…

First of all there is a new Efterklang interview up on The Milk Factory. Yep thats right! The Milk Factory has finally returned!

Then next a couple of Rumraket tips… Tonight Slaraffenland stars their US tour. Their longest so far! Have a look at the impressive tour right here at their myspace site. They also blog about the whole thing here – only in Danish though…

Yesterday Canon Blue´s Colonies album was released on CD in Scandinavia & Benelux. You can get it right here at Dotshop.se. The album is getting raving reviews, especially in UK these days (where it will be released October 8th). This Friday he will also embark on a American tour, which we have decided to call The House and Garden Tour as it started out as that. Lots of venues are involved now. Get the tour schedule here at myspace.com/canonblue

Then we have come to the last turtle… Peter Broderick our new violinist from Portland, Oregon is photo-blogging about his new life in Denmark. See pics from our pizza party and the Efterklang live rehearsals.