A couple of journalists from DR (danish national radio) followed our very first rehearsals with the big orchestra a couple of weeks back:

http://dr.dk/Musik/Artikler/2008/09/19090226.htm

xo
Casper

NB: It appears only to stream on PC though!

Earlier this year (in May) we did a Take away Show for the glorious Blogotheque in San Francisco. 2 songs, with help from our good friends Slaraffenland.

You can watch it all here:
http://www.blogotheque.net/Efterklang

xo

Hi all

A little late, but here’s an update on our preparations for the Parades Concert in Copenhagen, Day#2!

Today was really exciting, as this was our very first rehearsal with the whole orchestra. We tried 4 of the more “difficult” songs/arrangements, and the experience was overwhelming!!!
It’s hard to describe, but listening to the music for the first time played by an orchestra all together, feels so right. This first big rehearsal, was mostly about listening and getting used to the sound and general feel of the orchestra - so we were all waiting like small boys at the candy shop window:)

Can’t wait till next week, witch will be packed with rehearsals and preparations, up until the big concert day on Friday, September 26th!

You can read more about the concert here and buy tickets on BilletNet.dk (DA/EN)

Here’s a couple of Photo’s from the day:

The first sheet prints

it’s hard to get all in the picture, when there’re so many people, and your camera is way to small…

Thomas locked up in a drum prison, and Rasmus testing the big amp

Karsten Fundal (the arranger) and Rasmus being happy:)

on monday we start rehearsing for real and intense! We hope and feel that the Parades concert on September 26th will be great!!

more info here

Hello all non swedish friends:)

We’ve got a few messages about troubles with the SVT Streamer, concerning the concert that we did for Swedish Television (aired first time yesterday evening on SVT2)

Today we got this from a gentle guy called Rob, he says:

“Hi Efterklang,
Non-Swedish residents can view the documentary via the link below:
http://svt.se/svt/road/Classic/shared/mediacenter/index.jsp?&d=43025&lid=puff_853528&lpos=extra_0

Hope this will help you out!

PLEASE NOTE the sound was bad before but has just been fixed!!!

xoxo
Casper

ps. Thanks a lot to all of you, who have been sharing your thoughts about the concert with us, it’s so nice reading all your sweet words!!! Keep them coming:)

…and more to come real soon!

Efterklang at Flickr

this will be a quick announcement to the people living in Sweden and others who can watch SVT2 on their tellies!

This Sunday, September 14th SVT2 will broadcast a full hour dedicated to Efterklang between 7pm and 8 pm. They filmed us when we played live in Lund, Sweden last spring and I think the program will include some interviews or footage of us fooling around as well.

We would like to thank Mikael and the SVT2 team for being so super cool!
And we look forward to watch the program as well!

take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend

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

Hi All

As some of you already know, we’re preparing the biggest Efterklang concert event ever these days.

On Friday, September 26th We’ll be performing our latest album, Parades, from start to finish in two concerts on the same night. We will be joined on stage by The Danish National Chamber Orchestra (DR UnderholdningsOrkestret). We’ll be over 50 musicians on stage in what looks to be an amazing scenography by the wonderful Hvass&Hannibal It will all take place in the newly build Koncerthuset, Studie 2 in DR Byen (National Radio & TV broadcast center), Copenhagen!

The last couple of days we had the first rehearsals with the orchestra. It was the two best days we’ve had in a long time. It is such an amazing feeling and beyond words to hear our little baby Parades unfolding itself in a full blown live orchestra!!!

We’ll try to do a little photo/text update about the whole project up until September 26th. This is the first one, more to come…

The first day with the Orchestra:

The concert hall (Studie 2), where the Parades concert will take place. It’ll all look very different by then though…

This is Karsten Fundal (left), the musical score arranger of the concert and Erik Heide, the concert maestro (first violinist of the orchestra. We’ll play without a conductor, so Erik will be in charge of the orchestra

Today was a rehearsal only with the leaders of each instrument group

Ralf Christensen behind the camera. Ralf will be doing a documentary about the whole thing

You can read more about the concert here and buy tickets on BilletNet.dk (da/en)

a million thanks to all who was present at Lido in Berlin and at Conne Island in Leipzig!!! We had so much fun and everything felt perfect and you were so welcoming!!

next one up is Dresden!! see you soon!
xoxo