This is old news if you follow Daytrotter regularly, but if you don´t then you should know that Daytrotter recently aired a session with Efterklang.

We recorded this live directly to tape at Big Orange Studios in Austin, Texas, back in September 2010. At that time we had just finished filming An Island with Vincent Moon and was now touring the US with our 7-piece band featuring Peter Broderick, Heather Woods Broderick and Daniel James (of Canon Blue).

In the session that has aired you can hear us perform Frida Found a Friend, I Was Playing Drums, Modern Drift and Step Aside.

Listen to the session here: www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/efterklang

P.S. Do you remember our chord project from that same tour? One of them was made in the same studio – link

All dates are now fully announced (except for May 7th) and we are so excited about going on tour again! We hope to see you at one of our concerts. The support slots are also almost fixed now. Balmorhea will support the US tour and Heather Woods Broderick most of the European tour with some assistance from Slaraffenland and Frederik Teige (our guitarist).

We should also let you know that you are now able to listen to three tracks from our upcoming third album Magic Chairs on the front of www.efterklang.net. The songs available for streaming are Modern Drift, Alike and Full Moon.

And you can now PRE-ORDER Magic Chairs on VINYL and CD using these links: Rumraket (DK) – Rough Trade (UK) – Insound (US) – imusic (DK)

February
18.02 – Copenhagen, DK / Global / RELEASEPARTY – Slaraffenland, Frederik Teige +Heather & Peter Broderick will all perform live – FREE ENTRANCE, come join us
19.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Sentrum Scene
20.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Folketeateret

March
02.03 – Philadelphia, PA / First Unitarian Church / support: Balmorhea
03.03 – New York, NY / Le Poisson Rouge / support: Balmorhea
04.03 – Boston, MA / TT The Bears / support: Balmorhea
05.03 – Montreal, Canada / La Sala Rosa / support: Balmorhea
06.03 – Toronto, Canada / El Mocambo / support: Balmorhea
07.03 – Detroit MI / The Pike Room / support: Balmorhea
08.03 – Chicago, IL / Lincoln Hall / support: Balmorhea
11.03 – Seattle, WA / The Triple Door / support: Balmorhea
12.03 – Vancouver, BC, Canada / Biltmore / support: Balmorhea
13.03 – Portland, OR / Doug Fir / support: Balmorhea
15.03 – San Francisco, CA / Bottom Of The Hill / support: Balmorhea
16.03 – Los Angeles, CA / Spaceland / support: Balmorhea
18.03 – SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info
19.03 – SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info
20.03 – SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info

April
05.04 – Norway / TBA / support: Heather Broderick
07.04 – Helsinki, FI / Korjaamo / tickets / support: Heather Broderick
08.04 – Tallinn, Estonia / Von Krahl Theatre / support: Heather Broderick
10.04 – Stockholm, SE / Strand / support: Heather Broderick
14.04 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / support TBA
15.04 – Aalborg, DK / Studenterhuset / support TBA
16.04 – Göteborg, SE / Brewhouse / support TBA
17.04 – Copenhagen, DK / Store VEGA / tickets / support TBA
20.04 – Brighton, UK / Concorde 2 / support: Heather Broderick / ticket info
21.04 – London, UK / Shepherds Bush Empire / support: Heather Broderick / tickets
22.04 – Oxford, UK / O2 Academy / support: Heather Broderick / ticket info
23.04 – Edinburgh, UK / Cabaret Voltaire / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
24.04 – Belfast, UK Black Box / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
25.04 – Dublin, IE / Whelan’s / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
27.04 – Bristol, UK / Metropolis / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
28.04 – Paris, France / Nouveau Casino / support: Heather Broderick /
29.04 – Tourcoing (Lille), France / Grand Mix / support: Heather Broderick /
30.04 – Saint Nazaire (Nantes), France / VIP / support: Heather Broderick /

May
01.05 – Pau, France / Centrifugeuse / support: Heather Broderick /
02.05 – Barcelona, Spain / La [2] de Apolo / support: Heather Broderick / ticket info)
04.05 – Rome, Italy / Init / support: Heather Broderick
05.05 – Bologna, Italy / Covo / Rocker Festival
06.05 – Basel, Switzerland 1.Stock / support: Heather W. Broderick
07.05 – Germany TBA
08.05 – Berlin / Astra Kulturhaus / Friction Festival
09.05 – Athens, Greece / Rodeo Live Club / support: Frederik Teige
11.05 – Cologne, DE / Gebäude 9 / support: Heather Broderick
12.05 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / support: Heather Broderick
13.05 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Rotown / support: Heather Broderick
14.05 – Nijmegen, The Netherlands / Doornroosje / support Heather Broderick
15.05 – Brussels, BE / Les Nuits Botanique at Cirque Royal
22.05 – Malmö, SE / Babel / support TBA

As promised – we have good news for you!
We have just announced our Scandinavian Tour dates and we have a new video to show you!

The video is for Modern Drift and it is made by our good friend Kristian Leth (www.speedofsound.dk). It is based on Dyrehaven, den Romantiske Skov, a film from 1970 by artists Per Kirkeby and Jørgen Leth (Kristian’s father). The film geek will know that our album title Magic Chairs draws on inspiration from another film by Jørgen Leth.

You can watch the video below the new tour dates:

February
19.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Sentrum Scene
20.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Folketeateret

April
05.04 – Norway / TBA / support: Heather Broderick
07.04 – Helsinki, FI / Korjaamo / tickets / support: Heather Broderick
08.04 – Tallinn, Estonia / Von Krahl Theatre / support: Heather Broderick
10.04 – Stockholm, SE / Strand / support: Heather Broderick
14.04 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / support TBA
15.04 – Aalborg, DK / Studenterhuset / support TBA
16.04 – Göteborg, SE / Brewhouse / support TBA
17.04 – Copenhagen, DK / Store VEGA / support TBA

May
22.05 – Malmö, SE / Babel / support TBA

Lieben Deutschen
We’re coming your way this week, and we’re very excited. It’s always been a pleasure playing in your country!

This time around, there’s a nice blend of good oldies, and exotic newbies on the map. On Wednesday (18/11) we’re starting out in Berlin. After that we’ll be heading towards Austria, Turkey, Switzerland & Italy. See the full plan below.

Hope to see you and your friends!
Much love from all of us

Germany:
18.11 – Berlin, DE / Festsaal Kreuzberg / w. Sandy Bird / tickets
19.11 – Köln, DE / Kulturbunker Mülheim / tickets
20.11 – Bochum, DE / Bahnhoof Langendreer / w. Eagle and Talon / tickets
21.11 – Hannover, DE / Junges Schauspiel
22.11 – Osnabrueck, DE / Glanz und Gloria / w. Sandy Bird / tickets
24.11 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / tickets
25.11 – Leipzig, DE / UT Connewitz / w. Early Day Miners & Jersey / tickets
26.11 – Dresden, DE / BeatPol / w. Bored man over Board / tickets

Austria:
27.11 – Ebensee, AT / Kino
28.11 – Vienna, AT / Fluc Wanne

Turkey:
29.11 – Istanbul, Turkey / Indigo / Address / Hosted by Bant NO:21

Switzerland & Italy:
01.12 – Zurich, CH / Rote Fabrik / tickets
02.12 – Milan, IT / Casa 139 / tickets
03.12 – Basel, CH / 1. Stock / Supp. Ladina Robert / tickets
04.12 – Aarau, CH / Flösserplatz / w. The Black Heart Procession / tickets
05.12 – Luzern, CH / Treibhaus / tickets

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

photos by Matthew Avignone

We just got home today and we were smiling all the way in the plane because this recent North American Tour has been absolutely amazing! Thanks to everybody that came out to see us play. In total we did 27 concerts including 4 concerts at SXSW in Austin, Texas. We have played a lot of new songs on this tour and we look forward to record them soon – thanks for welcoming the new songs so kindly. We would also like to send a special thanks to Heather Broderick, Peter Broderick and Daniel James aka Canon Blue for being in our live-band for this tour. You guys are incredible musicians and persons – THANKS! A big thanks also goes to our new friend Todd Eskridge who engineered all the shows on this tour perfectly! We would also want to thank all the local bands that opened up for us all the venues and promoters.

We are very thankful today because we have millions of things to be thankful for!

Take Care!
Casper, Mads, Thomas and Rasmus

PS. We have just updated our photo blog at Flickr.com – Most of the pictures from this recent North American tour have been uploaded now. Have a look right here.

Go and have a look at our american experiences:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/efterklang-recordings/

much love from all of us

Hi All
We’ve just updated our photo blog with pictures from our last tour of the year:
Efterklang Photo Blog

Also, we want to send out a big thanks to the incredible audience at An Club, Athens, GR, for giving us such a nice “last show of the year”, despite of the horrible thing happening just outside!

We’ll start looking into new songs now and prepare ourself for future adventures, so for the next months and during the winter we’ll stay at home in Copenhagen and empty our heads.

THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU AMAZING PEOPLE SHOWING UP AT OUR CONCERTS AROUND THE GLOBE DURING THE LAST 14 MONTHS, AND TO ALL OF YOU SENDING US SWEET WORDS & THOUGHTS! IT’S BEEN MAGICAL, AND WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!!

Much much love
Mads, Thomas, Rasmus, Casper, Frederik, Niklas, Anna, Peter, Heather

Amazing Athens!

To all of you sweet people who made it out to our concerts doing the last week, we want to thank you all, for the good time we had! One of the best tours ever!!! Can’t wait to see you again…

Much love from all of us
Casper

by Riina

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