We are starting rehearsals today with the full band and we are über excited! This might be the best band line-up for an Efterklang concert ever!!!

It is the usual 7-piece Efterklang live band with Daniel James (of Canon Blue) on guitar, Heather Broderick on piano and Peter Broderick on vibes and steel drum.

And then we have the brilliant Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason on Rhodes and then you add a saxophone quartet, a brass quartet and a classic percussionist

This all turns into Efterklang+Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra – our new 17 piece band!

We will be playing Efterklang songs with arrangements for the Messing Orchestra by Daniel Bjarnason.

We are playing 4 concerts with this special band this week. We will be visiting Utrecht, Eindhoven, Groningen and Rotterdam and all shows are part of the CrossLinx Festival. The National and Owen Pallett are also on the bill and so is a line of other incredible artists.

Following yesterdays World Premiere of Vincent Moon and Efterklang’s film An Island in Latvia the Private-Public Screenings will now take place over the next two months.

More than 400 people have already signed up to host their own screenings. This is truly incredible! Thank you!

You can read much more about this at www.anisland.cc
- and this is the direct link to the screening calendar.

Here is a sneak peak at a very cool Google Map our new friend Anders Havelund has been working on, It shows all the future screenings of An Island:

Vis stort kort

Vincent Moon’s film An Island featuring yours truly will see its world premiere tonight in Cesis, Latvia of all places! This was decided by Vincent Moon and Efterklang via a contest at wired.com

Tomorrow starts the Official and the Private-Public Screenings of An Island. There are already more than 400 confirmed screenings of the film!

Please visit www.anisland.cc/home/news for more info

The World Premiere of An Island will take place here tonight!

There are now more than 200 confirmed Private-Public Screenings of our film An Island! This makes us very happy! And we know it makes director Vincent Moon very happy too!

Thanks to all who are hosting a screening and also to everyone who will be attending all these screenings. With so many screenings we have already exceeded our hopes and ambitions for this screening method and this even before the film premieres.

THANK YOU!

We should also let you know that the list of official screenings is growing too! We are hosting one ourselves in Amager Bio on March 20th. Peter Broderick will play live and then we will screen the film on a humongous screen with great sound. The entrance is only 30 kr. You can read more here.

TO SEE THE ENTIRE LIST OF OFFICIAL & PRIVATE-PUBLIC SCREENINGS GO TO: WWW.ANISLAND.CC/HOME/ATTEND

We have exciting news about AN ISLAND
- the film by Vincent Moon & Efterklang.

Allow us to introduce Private-Public Screenings
- You are hereby invited to screen An Island in your home!

Since we started sharing the news about An Island it’s been said that it will premiere in February and when we announced that An Island will support Efterklang on our upcoming European tour starting February 17th maybe some of you thought that would be the premiere – but that’s not the idea!

As of today Efterklang & Vincent Moon welcome all our listeners and followers to host their own screenings of An Island. From today people can sign up to host screenings and these will start February 1st and run until March 31st 2011.

We call these screenings Private-Public Screenings and the rules are very simple.
• The screenings need to have free entrance
• The screenings need to be public
• The screenings need to have a minimum capacity of 5 people
• The screenings need to be verified by Efterklang & Vincent Moon and only screenings that are featured on www.anisland.cc are official Private-Public Screenings

In other words as long as entrance is free and it is an open event (as capacity permits) the Private-Public Screenings can take place in your home, at a café, in a school auditorium or any place you can think of. It should be mentioned here that if you plan to host a Private-Public Screening in your home, then you are able to have full control over who can attend.

As of today it is possible to submit your own Private-Public Screening. For more information about hosting your own screening of An Island please visit www.anisland.cc/home

Also today we can reveal the 3rd teaser for An Island which also can be seen at www.anisland.cc/home

For an updated list of the current and future Official Screenings and Private-Public Screenings of An Island please go to: www.anisland.cc/home/attend-a-screening/

We hope that a lot of people will host and attend screenings of An Island. The Private-Public Screenings are our attempt at creating a free and inspiring distribution method for our film. It is also our attempt to give something back to all of you out there! We have financed this film ourselves and we hope that we can recoup some of that money through donations. However, the memory of the 4 days we spent on the island of Als in August 2010 and our joy and pride of the finished film is a huge reward in itself.

In less than three weeks we will play our two first concerts in Brazil ever! Actually our first concerts in South America ever. Lets hope it will be the first visit of many more in the future.

The flights are booked and right now we are just waiting for our VISAs to go in order. Hopefully they will soon and if you live in Sao Paulo or near we hope to see you at the two concerts!

28.01 / Sao Paulo, BR / SESC Belenzinho / w. Søren Bebe Trio / tickets
29.01 / Sao Paulo, BR / SESC Belenzinho / w. Jakob Davidsen / tickets

We hope you had a fantastic 2010 and we hope your 2011 will be even better!

To celebrate the new year we are hereby giving you a new free remix of Raincoats made by Kasper Winding and also a video featuring the (almost) original version of Raincoats and footage from the Danish web series Robin Färdig by Danish director Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen.

Listen to Raincoats (Kasper Winding Remix)

Download Raincoats (Kasper Winding Remix) here. We suggest that you add this remix to the playlist for your party tonight!

Raincoats + Robin Färdig Video

The entire Robin Färdig web series can be watched at dr.dk/pirattv. Raincoats is the theme song for the series and the Raincoats video gives you a glimpse of the Robin Färdig world. Currently there is no international version of the series but if you understand Danish we recommend the series – it is fun and brings back memories of the troubled times in high school.

Before we say goodbye we want to give you these four recommendations of some of our favorite albums released in 2010.
Casper liked Murder – Gospel of Man a lot
Thomas liked M.I.A – Maya a lot
Rasmus liked Clogs – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton a lot
Mads liked Owen Pallett – Heartland a lot

Have lots of FUN tonight and take care of each other and the rockets.
Thanks for another great year!

Mads, Casper, Thomas & Rasmus

The year is coming to an end so as usual we all look back and try to remember all the great things that happened. Especially music medias like to indulge in this kind of thing and right now they are all doing their year end lists – and we are of course happy see our Magic Chairs album pop up in a good bunch of these lists.

Our label 4AD also look back and today their Year in Review post is about Efterklang: 4ad.com/efterklang

The Danish Magazine Soundvenue asked us to pick three albums that we liked in 2010. This was not easy as we like around 50 albums released this year. Anyway our selection was just posted today: http://www.soundvenue.com/features/2010/12/14/opsamling-2010-efterklang

We promise to do a bigger post about 2010 later on! Stay tuned.
In the meanwhile feel free to tell us about your favorite albums released this year.

Today we can reveal the 2nd teaser for AN ISLAND, the film we are working on with French director Vincent Moon. The film will have the same length as an album and in it you can see us in several musical experiments and collaborations with more than 200 kids, parents and local musicians on a very special island in the Danish country side.

Today we can also announce the first 23 official screenings of the film. We will take the film with us on tour in February and March and before all the concerts (except in NL and DK) we will be screening An Island.

The teasers can both be watched at the website for the film WWW.ANISLAND.CC and also at our Vimeo account. More teasers will come soon and it should also be mentioned that we have very exciting and democratic plans for how An Island will premiere in early February. We will be needing your kind assistance so stay tuned please!

AN ISLAND SCREENINGS
21.02 – Bristol, UK / Cube Cinema / screening only / free entrance
22.02 – Cardiff, UK / The Globe / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
23.02 – Sheffield, UK / Queens Social Club / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
24.02 – Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
25.02 – Manchester, UK / Academy 3 / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
26.02 – Newcastle, UK / The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
27.02 – London, UK / Scala / + Efterklang (live) / tickets

March
01.03 – Brussels, BE / Botanique / + Efterklang (live)
02.03 – TBA
03.03 – Lyon, FR / Epicerie Moderne / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
04.03 – Aarau, CH / KIFF / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
05.03 – Chur, CH / Kulturhaus / + Efterklang (live)
06.03 – Zürich, CH / Stall 6 / + Efterklang (live)
08.03 – Vienna, A / Szene / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
09.03 – Kosice, Slovakia / Tabacka Kulturfabrik / + Efterklang (live)
10.03 – Prague, CZ / Meet Factory / + Efterklang (live)
11.03 – Leipzig, DE / Centraltheater / + Efterklang (live)
12.03 – Bremen, DE / Lagerhaus / + Efterklang (live)
13.03 – Berlin, DE / Volksbühne / + Efterklang (live)
14.03 – Frankfurt, DE / Brotfabrik / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
15.03 – Dortmund DE / Konzerthaus / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
16.03 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / + Efterklang (live) / tickets
17.03 – Rostock, DE / Mau / + Efterklang (live) /
20.03 – Copenhagen, DK / Amager Bio / + Peter Broderick (live) / 30kr at door

PETER BRODERICK (live) & SCREENING IN COPENHAGEN

Efterklang will play live in Copenhagen in Amager Bio on March 18th, but we will not be screening the film this day. Together with Filmmagasinet Ekko we will present Peter Broderick live and a screening of An Island in Amager Bio on Sunday March 20th instead. It will be an seated afternoon concert and screening and it will only cost 30 kroner to get in and enjoy Peter’s incredible live performance and to watch An Island on Amager Bio’s huge screen.

Tickets will not be sold in advance, but at the door, and also at Efterklang’s concert on March 18th. However you should note that advance tickets for Efterklang’s concert in Amager Bio on March 18th are available from http://www.billetlugen.dk/musik/14075/, and the first 150 tickets to be sold will give entrance to both events (March 18 and March 20) in Amager Bio.

We have just announced two more dates for our final Magic Chairs Tour in February and March. March 1st we will play in Brussels at Botanique and then we will end the tour with a big homecoming concert in Copenhagen on March 18th at Amager Bio.

Our last Magic Chairs Tour holds 27 concerts and once it is over we will take a long break from touring. In fact we plan not to play a single concert before we have finished our 4th album sometime in the far future. With this tour we will finish almost 3,5 years of non stop touring and it has been an adventure. An incredible adventure.

01.03.2011 – Brussels, BE / Botanique /
18.03.2011 – Copenhagen, DK / Amager Bio / tickets on sale Dec 9th

Please visit EFTERKLANG.NET/HOME/CONCERTS for all upcoming concert dates! Shows in Belgium, Turkey, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Rep., Germany & Denmark coming up!

Efterklang in Teatro Lara, Madrid – photo by evasee.com