Today we can announce the release date, tracklist, artwork and title of our new album! We are also happy to tell you that you can download the opening song for free right now!

February 22nd(23rd in the US) 2010 we will release our third full length album and we are exited! We're calling this new baby for Magic Chairs and we are curious to find out how you will like it as it definitely introduces a new Efterklang sound.

We have been working on the album since January 2009 and we have played and tested several of the new songs on the road throughout the year on our different tours. We recorded the album in Feedback Recording studio in Århus and in Black Tornado, STC Studio and our own studio (all three) in Copenhagen. The record is mixed by our new friend Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & Grizzly Bear) and I think we dare to say that we are very proud of it!

Magic Chairs is our first album on our new home 4AD. This fine and legendary label will release Magic Chairs across the globe except for Scandinavia where we will release the album on our own Rumraket label.

Tracklist:
01: Modern Drift
02: Alike
03: I Was Playing Drums
04: Raincoats
05: Harmonics
06: Full Moon
07: The Soft Beating
08: Scandinavian Love
09: Mirror Mirror
10: Natural Tune

Magic Chairs is out February 22nd 2010 - we hope you will like it!

As usual Hvass&Hannibal have made the artwork for the new album and we totally love what they came up with!
xoxoxox Mads, Casper, Thomas and Rasmus

Soundvenue.com is hosting the documentary on their site for a week.

Recreating Parades takes you behind the scene of the Performing Parades Concert we did last year with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra.

The documentary can also be found on our newest release Performing Parades and it is made by Ralf Christensen and Anders Bøtter.

WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY HERE (please note this version is without subtitles)

Starting Wednesday we will play 4 concerts in Denmark this week. The shows are part of the CPH:DOX film festival and all the concerts will start with a screening of the new Performing Parades film by Benjamin Hesselholdt. We will follow the screening with a live show consisting mostly of new songs!

Hope to see you there! Or somewhere else in Europe in the near future.

The dates are the following:
11.11 - Copenhagen, DK / DOX:CLUB / tickets
12.11 - Copenhagen, DK / DOX:CLUB / tickets
13.11 - Aarhus, DK / Musikhuset Århus / CPH:DOX tour / tickets
14.11 - Odense, DK / Posten / CPH:DOX tour / tickets

Cutting Ice To Snow (live): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRNFnpd160

We're leaving Copenhagen, to see y'all again:)

Starting out with an ultra exciting and very special show at Barbican Hall, London, on Wednesday, October 28th with Britten Sinfonia. Performing our latest studio album Parades from A to Z + a petit surprise...

Here's the first leg of our Autumn Tour 2009:

28.10 - London, UK / Barbican / Performing Parades w. Britten Sinfonia / Supp. Jaga Jazzist and Sons of Noel and Adrian / tickets

29.10 - Birmingham, UK / The Asylum / w. Nancy Elizabeth / tickets
30.10 - Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor / w. Nancy Elizabeth / tickets
31.10 - Manchester, UK / Deaf Institute (Halloween) / by Hey Manchester! / tickets
01.11 - Leeds, UK / Brainwash Festival / tickets
02.11 - Reading, UK / Reading Concert Hall / w. Nancy Elizabeth / tickets
03.11 - Paris, FR / La Maroquinerie / Address / tickets1 - tickets2
04.11 - Utrecht, NL / Tivoli de Helling / tickets
05.11 - Amsterdam, NL / Paradiso / tickets
06.11 - Antwerp, BE / de Nachten / de Singel / tickets
07.11 - Rennes, FR / L'Antipode / w. The Last Morning Soundtrack / tickets

There're many more European concerts coming up in November and December all listed Right Here

Can't wait and hope to see you!

Much love from all of us

We are very happy that this beast is finally released! It was A LOT of hard work to get to here and we hope the results will be enjoyed and appreciated. It is available from today as CD+DVD and LP+DVD - enjoy! We are also very happy to see it has received great reviews so far. If you are curious we recommend the BBC review (in English) and the Gaffa review (in Danish).

We would like to use this opportunity to thank The Danish National Chamber Orchestra & Karl Bjerre Skibsted, Benjamin Hesselholdt & and his film crew, Ralf Christensen and Anders Bøtter, Hvass&Hannibal & all their helpers, Jesper Andersen and not least Karsten Fundal for breathing new life into our songs. These people have worked tremendously hard and great on this project and we are very thankful to them and to the many others that have helped who we didn't list here.

Performing Parades can be found on iTunes and on other digital outlets, but we recommend the physical version. This is the only way to get the DVD which includes the Performing Parades concert film and the Recreating Parades documentary film and also 7 music videos from the original Parades album.

You can buy Performing Parades on CD+DVD or LP+DVD via The Leaf Label's shop or via Efterklang's own webshop.

We will be touring from October 28th to December 5th around Europe to support this release. ALL DATES CAN BE FOUND HERE

Caravan (live): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6QtcwR_fMw
 

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