About a year ago we played a concert together with our good friends in Slaraffenland. We morphed our bands together, called it Slaraffenklang and played each other songs in new versions as a 12 piece rock band. You can still download a free live EP, recorded at that concert, over at rumraket.com/shop/freedownloads.html

Now the mutant band returns! Slaraffenklang will come back to do two concerts and then it will go back to sleep in its monster hideout. Here are the dates:

23.01 – Aarhus, DK – Slaraffenklang Concert! @ Voxhall – tickets
24.01 – Copenhagen, DK – Slaraffenklang Concert! @ Skuespilshuset – tickets

Take a deep breath of air. This project is a big mouthful, but such a nice bite and something we are very very very proud to be part of!

- a 40 minutes music film featuring SLARAFFENLAND

- a 30 minutes one take music film featuring Danish and Copenhagen based bands CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS, MURDER, THE SAD LOVERS, JONG PANG, CHIMES & BELLS, VALBY VOKALGRUPPE, THULEBASEN, SLARAFFENLAND and EFTERKLANG

- 14 additional Take Away Style performances by the above mentioned bands and also featuring I GOT YOU ON TAPE, THE WILLIAM BLAKES and TAXI TAXI!

Thanks to the genius and the generosity of French filmmaker Vincent Moon
all of this is available for everybody to watch and enjoy totally free right here:

www.temporarycopenhagen.com & www.temporaryslaraffenland.com

Slaraffenland – from the TemporarySlaraffenland film

Efterklang newsletter 03/09/2009
EFTERKLANG SIGNS TO 4AD!
We are very happy to let you know that we have signed a new record deal with 4AD – one of our absolute favourite labels in the world.

We will now be part of a roster that currently counts fine artists like The National, Deerhunter, TV on the Radio, M Ward, Scott Walker, St. Vincent and many more and we are of course full of anticipation about this new collaboration between 4AD and Efterklang. First project together will be our 3rd studio album, which will be released sometime in the first quarter of 2010. The playground for this new friendship is the world, but in Scandinavia we will release our future albums on our own Rumraket label.

This does not mean that we are cutting all ties to our current home, The Leaf Label. Not at all, actually. October 19th 2009 they will release Performing Parades by Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra on CD/DVD & LP/DVD.

We have been releasing our music on The Leaf Label since 2004 and it is the home of our Tripper and Parades albums as well as our mini-albums Springer and Under Giant Trees. It has been absolutely joyful for us and we are proud that we have contributed to their incredible discography. We are still waiting for them to release a record we don’t like, but we are beginning to think that it will never happen. We think they will be reading this and here is a huge and sincere THANK YOU for them.

We will be on tour this fall starting Friday!
We are touring most of the fall, because we like to tour and because we want to celebrate the Performing Parades release. The biggest show this fall will be October 28th at Barbican Hall in London where we will be playing a Performing Parades Concert with the classical orchestra Britten Sinfonia. Tickets are available here: barbican.org.uk

The rest of the shows we will play as a 7-piece and we promise to play new songs!
Here are the dates (more to be confirmed soon):
04.09 – Stradbally Hall, IE / Electric Picnic / tickets
06.09 – Vlieland, NL / Into the Great Wide Open Festival / tickets
11.09 – Isle of Wight, UK / Bestival / tickets
12.09 – Dorset, UK / End of the Road / sold-out
13.09 – Cardiff, UK / The Globe / w. Peter Broderick / tickets
14.09 – Coventry, UK / St Johns Church / tickets 1, tickets 2
17.09 – Gothenburg, SE / Parken / tickets
18.09 – Stockholm, SE / Hornstull Strand / tickets
19.09 – Malmö, SE / Babel / tickets
23.09 – Oslo, NO / Det Norske Studentersamfund, Storsalen / ticket
24.09 – Bergen, NO / Ekko Festival / tickets
25.09 – Stavanger, NO / TOU Scenen / tickets
26.09 – Kristiansand, NO / Kick
28.10 – London, UK / Barbican / Performing Parades w. Britten Sinfonia / tickets
29.10 – Birmingham, UK / The Asylum / w. Nancy Elisabeth / tickets
30.10 – Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor
31.10 – Manchester, UK / Deaf Institute / hosted by Hey Manchester!
01.11 – Leeds, UK / Brainwash Festival (at Leeds University)
02.11 – Reading, UK / Reading Concert Hall / tickets
03.11 – Paris, Fr / La Maroquinerie
04.11 – Utrecht, NL / Tivoli de Helling / tickets
05.11 – Amsterdam, NL / Paradiso / tickets
18.11 – Berlin, DE / Festsaal Kreuzberg / tickets
19.11 – Köln, DE / Kulturbunker Mülheim
20.11 – Bochum, DE / Bahnhoof Langendreer
21.11 – Hannover, DE / Junges Schauspiel
24.11 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / tickets
25.11 – Leipzig, DE / UT Connewitz / w. Jersey / tickets
03.12 – Basel, CH / 1. Stock / tickets
04.12 – Aarau, CH / Flösserplatz / tickets
05.12 – Luzern, CH / Treibhaus / tickets

Other stuff:
if you are on Twitter then you should know that so are we! twitter.com/efterklang
if you would like to stay updated on our recordings and whereabouts then this is a good place! Efterklang on Flickr

Rumraket Update!
Monday the 7th of September Slaraffenland will release We’re on Your Side. This is their 3rd album and it is without doubt their best yet! You can read more and download two free MP3s at Rumraket.com/shop

Monday the 21st of September Taxi Taxi! will release their long awaited debut album. It is called Still Standing at Your Back Door and it is a marvellous album – Johanna and Miriam are back! Pre-order and get a free MP3 at Rumraket.com/shop

We should also tell you that we have reissued the debut album by our good friends Grizzly Bear. Horn of Plenty is out now again and can be ordered here: Rumraket.com/shop

Best wishes from Copenhagen!

Casper, Mads, Thomas & Rasmus – Efterklang

PS. you rock our world

Finally we have been able to update our mail-order shop – www.Rumraket.com/shop, with some new T-shirts. These new ones have stripes and are designed by Nan Na Hvass from Hvass&Hannibal. Some of you might have seen them before when we were touring in North America in March 2009.

hope everbody is enjoying the summer!
- Rasmus

CLICK THE IMAGE TO HAVE A LOOK AND/OR BUY AT RUMRAKET.COM/SHOP

Our label mates (Leaf) A Hawk And a Hacksaw will be playing live in Copenhagen on Tuesday (May 26th) at Lille VEGA.
If you have the chance to go see them you should definitely go. They are always an incredible experience.

Our other label mates (Rumraket) Taxi Taxi! are playing tonight in Copenhagen at Loppen together with Skammens Vogn. Both bands comes highly recommended and all of us will definitely be there.

Taxi Taxi! also has a new EP out – Step Out Into The Light EP – you can get it at klicktrack.com/rumraket

Please download and enjoy this free Live EP by Slaraffenklang!
A mutant band of Efterklang and Slaraffenland.

SLARAFFENKLANG – “Danish Dynamite Live at Sono Festival 2008″
DOWNLOAD THE FREE EP NOW – 30mb
There are 4 songs on the EP and a front cover is included in the zip archive as well.

Here is the story:
In May 2008 Efterklang & Slaraffenland were on a joint US tour under the name The Danish Dynamite Tour. Halfway through the tour the bands got a call from back home. The newly established Sono Festival wanted to hear if Slaraffenland and Efterklang could be interested in performing a special concert at their festival. After a very quick talk on the topic it was decided that everyone would love to play in a band with two drummers and a lot of distorted guitars and therefore the offer was accepted.

The 4 songs on this free live EP are all recorded at Sono Festival in Rødovre (a suburb to Copenhagen) November 8th 2008. This was the first and maybe also the last concert with Slaraffenklang. The idea is simple and fun. Slaraffenklang is the mutant band of Efterklang and Slaraffenland. There are 12 musicians on stage, all men, and the songs performed are covers of Efterklang and Slaraffenland. Sometimes just louder and more rumbling versions and sometimes in new slightly new arrangements.

tracklist:
Cutting Ice To Snow
Polaroids
Echo Wave
You Win

recorded, mixed and mastered by Petter Samuelsson.

Please Enjoy!

Bjørn, Casper, Christian, Frederik, Jeppe, Niklas, Mads, Mike, Peter, Rasmus, Rune & Thomas / SLARAFFENKLANG

Tonight is the night when we will join forces with our friends in Slaraffenland and for one night only we will perform together under the name Slaraffenklang. Be there!

Slaraffenklang will play songs written by Slaraffenland and Efterklang in new arrangements and the rehearsals for this show have been a lot of fun! We look forward to play the concert!

Catch this very special band at Viften in Rødovre, Denmark.
The concert is part of the new SONO Festival. Wildbirds & Peacedrums are also on the bill and so is Ekko!

More info here: – SONO Festival

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

in relation to the post below we should tip you about the new Sunshine EP by Slaraffenland which was released last week on our label Rumraket. You can get it at iTunes & Klicktrack. Or you can write to Rumraket directly – for 15€ total transferred via Paypal you can have the limited CD version shipped to anywhere in the world – contact (at) rumraket.com.

At Rumrakets website you can read more about the release and their European tour which goes through Germany, Poland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands & Denmark. GO INVESTIGATE!!

hey weekend people!
Tonight and tomorrow night you can indulge yourself in lots of good live music presented by Rumraket – the label we run!

Unfortunately Our Broken Garden had to cancel their activities this weekend due to sickness (get well soon) – but luckily a very nice replacement has been found in Munck//Johnson!

This weekend looks like this:
sept 12 = Taxi Taxi! & Munck//Johnson & Erik Levander at Huset i Magstræde in Copenhagen
sept 13 = Taxi Taxi! & Munck//Johnson & Jacob Faurholt at Musikcafeen in Aarhus

More info here: Rumraket at Myspace