More free remixes to offer! And this time also a nice video to celebrate summer and this new remix swap. Oh No Ono is a superb band and we were happy not only to do a remix swap but also to jump in the cold Danish water with them!

The remix they have made for Modern Drift was done in their tour bus in one day on a drive from Cologne to Paris! We copied that idea, but it took us many many kilometers before we nailed our remix of their Icicles song.

For Oh No Ono’s remix of ‘Modern Drift’:

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For Efterklang’s remix of ‘Icicles’:

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The video was filmed by Kristian Sidelmann and by Andreas Munksgaard who also did the editing.

Icicles is from Oh No Ono’s latest and great album Eggs. You can visit the band at www.ohnoono.com

the single artwork made by Hvass&Hannibal

Its spring and the air smells different and we are high on endorphins! AND we have a new single and a new video. I Was Playing Drums will be released on Monday April 19th via 4AD as a 7″ vinyl single. Me Me Me the Brick House can be found exclusively as the b-side.

The single and b-side will also be available digitally. In Scandinavia you can already get the single via iTunes and similar shops.

Simon Taffe (the man behind one of the best music festivals on this planet: End of The Road) did the new video for I Was Playing Drums together with Joseph Brett and Glenn Taunton. You can watch it below. We hope you like it! We do! and we hope to see you around. We are touring touring touring these days – check out the dates at efterklang.net/home/concerts

We are very happy about this session. We filmed in VEGA our favorite venue in our favorite hometown Copenhagen. We recorded 4 songs live on the floor of Store VEGA (their biggest concert hall). We formed a circle and it was a special feeling playing in the nice room just for ourselves.

We play in this same room April 17th, when our Magic Chairs tour swings by Copenhagen.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL 4AD SESSION 4AD.com/sessions

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

Hope you’re all enjoying yourself with family, champagne, coffee, friends, painkillers or whoever or whatever is around you today. Our tiny band have completely split up, for the cause of holiday, being literally spread all over the world. Thomas in Thailand, Rasmus in Istanbul, Casper in Toronto and Mads taking care of business in Copenhagen.

Guess we needed a little break from each other or just simply a little time with someone else. After all, we’ve been seeing the world collectively nearly everyday for the past couple of years, and very soon we’ll be joining forces again (tour dates 2010).

Wow! An entire decade just passed by, and the slipstream of nostalgia just reached our shore. From the view from our nose tips, it’s been a very very special one! Mainly because there was no Efterklang a decade ago, and secondly because we’re having the time of our life!

Lets look ahead. Just around the corner, on February 22nd (23rd in the US) 2010, we’ll release our 3rd studio album: Magic Chairs, coming out on our very own Rumraket label in Scandinavia and our brand new home 4AD in the rest of the world.

We’re ULTRA EXCITED to present it for you!!!

Here is a Happy New Year Video Postcard from our 4 corners of the world to all of you sweet people. The postcard includes 4 snippets of songs from Magic Chairs. Enjoy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU & YOURS. SEE YOU SOOOOON!!!

Rasmus, Mads, Thomas, Casper

Video postcard from Efterklang – Happy New Year!

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

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

When we played in Philadelphia in March a bunch of friendly people where there to film and record a couple of songs. This week their hard work got featured at www.punkrockvids.com

You can watch a video of us playing Caravan live and there are tons of other videos in there as well – and all of it is for free!

Rasmus
PS. A Hawk and a Hacksaw will play live in Århus tonight. Don´t miss them

The notorious website Pitchfork has publicized their top 40 of Music Videos of 2008. We are proud and honored to see that the video directed by Jeremiah Zagar for our song Cutting Ice To Snow is among their favorites!

You can see the entire list here: Pitchfork – Best Videos of 2008
And here is the video:

It is Friday today, the weekend has almost already started and we are at the last day of The Efterklang Gift Week. As this is the farewell to the Gift Week we have a lot of stuff for you today.

First we present to you a remix of First Floor Power´s God Damn Your Fingers. The remix is made by Casper Clausen from Efterklang and this might be his first official work ever in his own name!
Visit: First Floor Power – Listen to the original version
Download: God Damn Your Fingers – Casper Clausen remix Mp3

Then next we have two videos!
A new video for Doppelgänger from our album Tripper (2004) and a video for Mimeo from our album Parades (2007). The last one has been online for some time but we never presented it properly as it truly deserve. Please enjoy the videos we think they are brilliant both of them.

EFTERKLANG Doppelgänger by Matt Brown

EFTERKLANG Mimeo by Jerren Lauder and Andrew DeYoung

ENJOY YOUR WEEKENDS!

Efterklang