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Efterklang
Efterklang make music for the inspired. But don’t feel left out, for Efterklang inspire all. Otherworldly pop songs, both magnificently ambitious and engagingly intimate. Breathtaking panoramas of sound with few clear antecedents. This is music with no boundaries.
Childhood friends Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the small Danish island of Als, close to the German border. Fuelled by youthful ambition, the trio moved to Copenhagen where they were joined by Rune Mølgaard and Thomas Husmer, forming Efterklang in December 2000.
Early on, the band instituted a self-sufficient working method that they still apply to everything they do: writing, recording, producing and organizing every element of their music and performance from their Copenhagen bunker.
In 2004 Efterklang signed to The Leaf Label, and their first album Tripper (2004) still stands as the fastest selling debut album in the label’s 15-year history. Their second full-length album, Parades (2007), pushed things to another level. The recordings involved more than 30 guest musicians, including a string quartet, a brass quintet and three separate choirs. The video for the album’s lead single ‘Mirador’ has now racked up over a million (1,000,000!) views on Youtube.
Parades received generous critical acclaim in Denmark and abroad. According to Mojo and Drowned in Sound the album was among the 25 best records released in 2007, while Clash magazine acclaimed it as one of the Top 40 albums in their five-year history. In their native Denmark, Efterklang have been awarded five important music prizes (three Steppeulven in 2007 and two Danish Music Awards in 2008) and topped several album of the year lists.
Efterklang are well-known for their stunning live shows. Following the release of Parades the band took their eight-piece live band on the road for 15 months, playing more than 130 concerts across North America, Asia and Europe. The tour established Efterklang as one of the most fascinating and uplifting live acts around today.
Their most significant performance to date took place at the brand new Koncerthuset in Copenhagen in September 2008. Together with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra they performed the newly orchestrated Parades from start to finish. This special show was a breathtaking, majestic affair and was recorded for posterity in sound and pictures. The recordings will be released in October 2009 as Performing Parades.
Efterklang have already begun work on their third full-length album, with a release expected in the spring of 2010.
Watch: Efterklang – “I Was Playing Drums” (Live)
Childhood friends Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the small Danish island of Als, close to the German border. Fuelled by youthful ambition, the trio moved to Copenhagen where they were joined by Rune Mølgaard and Thomas Husmer, forming Efterklang in December 2000.
Early on, the band instituted a self-sufficient working method that they still apply to everything they do: writing, recording, producing and organizing every element of their music and performance from their Copenhagen bunker.
In 2004 Efterklang signed to The Leaf Label, and their first album Tripper (2004) still stands as the fastest selling debut album in the label’s 15-year history. Their second full-length album, Parades (2007), pushed things to another level. The recordings involved more than 30 guest musicians, including a string quartet, a brass quintet and three separate choirs. The video for the album’s lead single ‘Mirador’ has now racked up over a million (1,000,000!) views on Youtube.
Parades received generous critical acclaim in Denmark and abroad. According to Mojo and Drowned in Sound the album was among the 25 best records released in 2007, while Clash magazine acclaimed it as one of the Top 40 albums in their five-year history. In their native Denmark, Efterklang have been awarded five important music prizes (three Steppeulven in 2007 and two Danish Music Awards in 2008) and topped several album of the year lists.
Efterklang are well-known for their stunning live shows. Following the release of Parades the band took their eight-piece live band on the road for 15 months, playing more than 130 concerts across North America, Asia and Europe. The tour established Efterklang as one of the most fascinating and uplifting live acts around today.
Their most significant performance to date took place at the brand new Koncerthuset in Copenhagen in September 2008. Together with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra they performed the newly orchestrated Parades from start to finish. This special show was a breathtaking, majestic affair and was recorded for posterity in sound and pictures. The recordings will be released in October 2009 as Performing Parades.
Efterklang have already begun work on their third full-length album, with a release expected in the spring of 2010.
Watch: Efterklang – “I Was Playing Drums” (Live)
Daníel Bjarnason
Noted Icelandic classical composer and conductor, Daniel Bjarnason is garnering widespread acclaim for his debut album, Processions. The album sees Daniel become the fifth artist released on the innovative Bedroom Community label, which is also home to Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, Ben Frost and Valgeir Sigurdsson (who produced and mixed Processions).
As well as frequently conducting the Icelandic Opera and Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daniel is the chief conductor and artistic leader for the Isafold Chamber Orchestra. Daniel's Isafold piece "All sounds to silence come" was awarded by the International Composers Rostrum in 2007.
Daniel's work with artists and orchestras bridges the classical and contemporary worlds. For Sigur Rós' epic Abbey Road live recording of Ára bátur, Daniel conducted the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy's Choir. His sought after arrangements have also featured on award winning albums by folk chanteuse Ólöf Arnalds and Icelandic pop sensations, Hjaltalin.
Daniel's program will include 3 pieces from Processions as well as Four seasons of Yosa Buson (2003) and his award winning All sounds to silence come (2007).
As well as frequently conducting the Icelandic Opera and Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daniel is the chief conductor and artistic leader for the Isafold Chamber Orchestra. Daniel's Isafold piece "All sounds to silence come" was awarded by the International Composers Rostrum in 2007.
Daniel's work with artists and orchestras bridges the classical and contemporary worlds. For Sigur Rós' epic Abbey Road live recording of Ára bátur, Daniel conducted the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy's Choir. His sought after arrangements have also featured on award winning albums by folk chanteuse Ólöf Arnalds and Icelandic pop sensations, Hjaltalin.
Daniel's program will include 3 pieces from Processions as well as Four seasons of Yosa Buson (2003) and his award winning All sounds to silence come (2007).
Sam Amidon Duo
Sam Amidon was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk musicians Peter and Mary Alice Amidon. He has released three albums of radically re-worked folksongs: "But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted," recorded at his then-home of Harlem in 2006 with Thomas Bartlett; followed by "All Is Well" in 2008 and "I See The Sign" in 2010, both recorded in Iceland with producer Valgeir Sigurðsson.
Sam sings, plays banjo and guitar and fiddle, draws comics and makes little video-stories, and can type at 120 words per minute. He's typing this bio right now, virtually at the speed of thought. Later, somebody will edit it.
Sam started on fiddle at the age of three and by eleven had formed a band called Popcorn Behavior, with childhood friend Thomas Bartlett and younger brother Stefan, to play New England fiddle tunes. They toured internationally, gathering attention from NPR, CNN and The Boston Globe and releasing five albums by the time they graduated from pretend high school which they did not really go to (at the time it was called "homeschooling"). His first solo album, released in 2001, was a collection of traditional Irish fiddle tunes, simply titled "Solo Fiddle."
By 17, Sam had taken up the banjo and fallen in love with free jazz, Miles Davis, early indie rock, drone minimalism, mountain ballads and Buster Keaton films. But it wasn't until he moved to New York City in 2002 that he began to play and experience first-hand all of these other kinds of things. Since then he has collaborated with a myriad of artists including Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.
Sam's folksong albums have received wide acclaim and have pulled many a soul back from the brink... his itinerant wanderings have taken him to far-off lands... and his solo performances have taken on a life and tenor of their own. Sam's drawn comics and enigmatic home-made videos, the "self-inflicted field recordings" resulting from these internal and external journeys, have resulted in exhibitions at the Tony Shafrazi and Audio Visual Arts galleries in New York City, and the Gallery Kuhturm in Leipzig. His audio-visual show/comics lecture "Home Alone Inside My Head" was premiered at NYC's The Kitchen in November 2010.
Sam, currently London-based, is finishing work on a new album. After reading a bunch of Henry James, Sam is now hard at work writing his own "pretend novel," called King Speechy, to be released by Penguin Classics in 2051 u feel me.
Sam Amidon on Myspace
Sam sings, plays banjo and guitar and fiddle, draws comics and makes little video-stories, and can type at 120 words per minute. He's typing this bio right now, virtually at the speed of thought. Later, somebody will edit it.
Sam started on fiddle at the age of three and by eleven had formed a band called Popcorn Behavior, with childhood friend Thomas Bartlett and younger brother Stefan, to play New England fiddle tunes. They toured internationally, gathering attention from NPR, CNN and The Boston Globe and releasing five albums by the time they graduated from pretend high school which they did not really go to (at the time it was called "homeschooling"). His first solo album, released in 2001, was a collection of traditional Irish fiddle tunes, simply titled "Solo Fiddle."
By 17, Sam had taken up the banjo and fallen in love with free jazz, Miles Davis, early indie rock, drone minimalism, mountain ballads and Buster Keaton films. But it wasn't until he moved to New York City in 2002 that he began to play and experience first-hand all of these other kinds of things. Since then he has collaborated with a myriad of artists including Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.
Sam's folksong albums have received wide acclaim and have pulled many a soul back from the brink... his itinerant wanderings have taken him to far-off lands... and his solo performances have taken on a life and tenor of their own. Sam's drawn comics and enigmatic home-made videos, the "self-inflicted field recordings" resulting from these internal and external journeys, have resulted in exhibitions at the Tony Shafrazi and Audio Visual Arts galleries in New York City, and the Gallery Kuhturm in Leipzig. His audio-visual show/comics lecture "Home Alone Inside My Head" was premiered at NYC's The Kitchen in November 2010.
Sam, currently London-based, is finishing work on a new album. After reading a bunch of Henry James, Sam is now hard at work writing his own "pretend novel," called King Speechy, to be released by Penguin Classics in 2051 u feel me.
Sam Amidon on Myspace