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

As you may have heard and read many times by now our new release Under Giant Trees is numbered and limited to 4500 cds and 1200 vinyls in total. Tony from The Leaf Label had requested from the vinyl factory that the ones numbered 1-20 where to be put in a marked box - in retrospect this proved to be a bad idea. Apparently somewhere between the factory and Leaf’s UK distributor this box has been nicked by some fast running hooligans! So if you ever see these vinyls somewhere do let us know!

So right now, lurking somewhere, someone thinks they have the 20 most exclusive Efterklang records in their possesion. But they can think again! Luckily for us there has been printed too many sleeves for the vinyl. So now we have made a handlettered edition. We have taken 29 vinyls from the high numbered sleeves and given them a new home in a lettered sleeve. The whole alphabet is there inclusive the three Danish extras æøå.

We and Leaf have kept some of these for our personal collections and family, but via The Leaf Labels ebay page we are going to auction 10 of them! They’re going to be listed on eBay, one per day for 10 days, from today (April 26). As a special bonus, each of these 10 copies will include a card signed by each of us (if anyone can be bothered). The 10 letters will be d, i, j, q, u, w, x, z, ø and å

In a karma balancing exercise to make good on behalf of the thief of the first 20, we’ve decided to give all the proceeds from these auctions to charity, and what could be more appropriate for Under Giant Trees than supporting the dying rainforest? The money will be used to buy a piece of untouched rainforest to secure its preservation. The purchase will be made through Nepenthes - a trustworthy Danish organisation that has raised money to buy and preserve areas of the rainforest since 1989. http://www.nepenthes.dk

The starting price is 7 GBP with no reserve, and they’ll be up for 10 days.
You can find the listings here:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZtheleaflabelQQhtZ-1

Yay:) Today our new mini-album Under Giant Trees is released. There are 5 new songs on it - Falling Horses, Himmelbjerget, Hands Playing Butterfly, Towards the Bare Hill and Jojo. The total playing time is 30 minutes.

As you may already know, the album comes in numbered and limited editions of 4500 cd´s and 1200 white vinyls (unfortunately vinyls are delayed a bit due to some pressing problems). It is released by The Leaf Label in the world and by our own label Rumraket in Denmark.

The artwork is made by Nan Na Hvass and inside the cd´s there are some magic puzzle cards!

In the fall of 2007 we will release a full-lenght album. This album and Under Giant Trees will not share any songs in the tracklistings.

Here are some buylinks:
Posteverything.com / Dotshop.se / Boomkat.com / Amazon.co.uk

Digital
iTunes & eMusic

We hope that you will enjoy it!

ps. release date in the US on May 8th (Pre-order @ amazon.com)

Number 1:

The new Deerhoof album is great! It is called Friend Oppurtunity and Im glad i got the opportunity to become friends with this insanely great album…

Number 2:

Listen to: Ernie and the sandstorm, old man and the sea - MP3

The new Kirsten Ketsjer The Rock Band album. It is called FFFFOO K TSSCCH and if you buy the vinyl version then it comes with a 12″ (side a & d) and a 7″ (side b & c) and artwork printed and cut in hand by Zven Balslev aka Smittekilde

Number 3
is the local shop where I bought these two records. It is called Sort Kaffe and Vinyl and it is my favorite place to buy coffee and music. The music selection is small but essential and forward looking at the same time. And the place (as the name suggests) also is a coffee house with very friendly prices! It´s located in Vesterbro, Copenhagen - the street is Skydebanegade…

I just got delivered 200 beautiful white Efterklang vinyls today! They look great I have to say! The artwork made by Nan Na Hvass really shines in this bigger format. Also! just a few days ago the Artwork for Under Giant Trees was selected as record sleeve of the week on the blog for the Creative Review Magazine. Here below is a photo of the cd inside.

Btw - tomorrow our Rumraket friends Slaraffenland will play live in Copenhagen and saturday they will play in Berlin. Also please help them enter the Danish chart: Det Elektriske Barometer. You can vote here.

DOWNLOAD - Towards the Bare Hill - MP3.

From our mini-album Under Giant Trees that will be released very soon - mark April the second in your calendars!

Promos has just gone out - already the first review is online! It´s in Italian so we don´t understand a word of it, but apparently it is very positive! Anyone with skills in Italian are very welcome to translate bits of it - leave it as a comment if you like… The review can be read at www.indie-eye.it - they also do good podcasts! We recommend The Swell Season.

PS. Under Giant Trees our new mini-album is released April 2nd
PPS. Only a week untill Taxi Taxi! arrives in Copenhagen to play at the Rumraket & Rump party saturday the 24th at Global! More Info and tickets here.

It seems like the “one sided LP” is doing well out there:)
Here’s a message from sweet Scott at Burnt Toast Vinyl:

“I’m getting caught up on all of the online orders over the last week or so. We’re almost out of Efterklang LPs and a re-press is underway. It shouldn’t be much time for the pressing and we do have enough to fill current orders at the moment”

The LP is now back in stock at posteverything.com and should be available in the american music stores from tomorrow.

Thanks alot to all of you who bought the vinyl and all of you who will!
Warm wishes from all of us

ps. Yesterday flowers were in blossom here in copenhagen. Today the winter appeared for the very first time, hmmm… things are really messed up these days

You can now buy our new One-Sided-LP in Europe!

If you live in Copenhagen you can find it in these shops:
Soundstation / Sort Kaffe og Vinyl / Sacre Coeur / Mint Records / 12 Tónar
& Route 66 (Copenhagen & Aarhus)

If you live on the internet you can go to Posteverything.com

The LP features 2 completely new tracks only available on this LP and a third track we have made in collaboration with Martin Hall.

In the US you can easily get the One-Sided LP at Burnt Toast Vinyl´s homepage. Burnt Toast Vinyl is the label that has released this One-Sided LP.

the front cover photo! It is taken by Nan Na Hvass.