Efterklang
I just picked up this album...
Efterklang - "Performing Parades"
This is a live album in which they join forces with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra to perform a live version of their recent studio release "Parades".
The best I can compare Efterklang to is imagine what the Polyphonic Spree would sound like if they had a jazz approach to their music. Very uplifting yet still intellectual music. I liked this album to start with, and it's growing on me increasingly the more I listen to it. For a live album, it has great sound.
Here's their myspace...
http://www.myspace.com/efterklang
And here's their emu page...
http://www.emusic.com/album/Efterklang-Performing-Parades-MP3-Download/11637688.html
They're touring right now, and gonna hit the U.S. and Canada in Feb and March. Balmorhea is the supporting act.
Quite frankly, I wasn't sure what genre to stick this under. Since they originally came up with a conversation with Sort under the Kammerflimmer Kollektief thread, I figured I'd keep it in the same category. If anybody has a better place to put this thread, suggest it to the mods; I won't have any objections. All these sub-genres confuse me, and then I go and listen to music that seems to defy genres anyways. Go figure.
Efterklang - "Performing Parades"
This is a live album in which they join forces with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra to perform a live version of their recent studio release "Parades".
The best I can compare Efterklang to is imagine what the Polyphonic Spree would sound like if they had a jazz approach to their music. Very uplifting yet still intellectual music. I liked this album to start with, and it's growing on me increasingly the more I listen to it. For a live album, it has great sound.
Here's their myspace...
http://www.myspace.com/efterklang
And here's their emu page...
http://www.emusic.com/album/Efterklang-Performing-Parades-MP3-Download/11637688.html
They're touring right now, and gonna hit the U.S. and Canada in Feb and March. Balmorhea is the supporting act.
Quite frankly, I wasn't sure what genre to stick this under. Since they originally came up with a conversation with Sort under the Kammerflimmer Kollektief thread, I figured I'd keep it in the same category. If anybody has a better place to put this thread, suggest it to the mods; I won't have any objections. All these sub-genres confuse me, and then I go and listen to music that seems to defy genres anyways. Go figure.
Comments
Efterklang - "Tripper"
One of their earlier albums, it leans more towards stripped-down electronica than their current Polyphonic Spree-ish orchestral sound. A couple times through and I'm pretty happy with it. I wasn't that hip into buying it, but there's a song on their myspace page off the album (Step Aside, I think it's called) that I couldn't stop humming to myself, and, well, you know how that goes. I had to download the fucking thing.
They're gonna be in Chicago on March 8th, a Monday. I'm gonna be in Chicago (most likely) the weekend before that day. I'm trying to find a way to stay Monday and Tuesday, but I don't see how. It's killing me that I might just be missing two bands (Balmorhea is the opener) that are getting a lot of playtime on my stereo, and in the case of Efterklang, they're from somewhere overseas, so how many chances am I gonna get to see them live in the States? Probably not many.
They're playing somewhere called Lincoln Hall or something. It looks like it used to be the old Biograph, but I couldn't tell for sure. Right by where the old Three Penny used to be.
Efterklang has a new album coming out Feb. 22nd, which I am very much looking forward to. The first song on the myspace, "Modern Drift" is off of it.
Btw...
Great album cover!
Also, for those who haven't purchased their stuff yet, they now have some great deals on emu where you basically get an album and ep in a combo pack for 12 dls. Well worth it.
Efterklang is one of my very favorite emu finds. I may slightly prefer Tripper, but here's my comment on the Springer page: "Among the quietest record ever made by 10 people. This one has gotten all the way under my skin. Ideal for manic depressives sticking their head out from under the rock and wondering if it's okay to come out again. Yes. It is. Start with Him Poe Poe, one of those where the good stuff is after the sample." I could go on at a lot more length, but the short version is that I have everything of theirs, and highly recommend it.
Hey, and am I missing something, or is there no Efterklang at limewire?
And while the cynical parts of me say that the bottom line for participation is how the LABELS feel and not the musicians, the fact is that even at the most cynical labels, individual artists do have something to say. I suspect that the residual baggage of Limewire's overt illegality early on will create issues for it until the very end, not unlike Napster, which came out of the gate strong in their push for legitimacy, and started slowly circling the drain almost immediately.
Mine (The Wire) will give the user more street cred, but no one will die of scurvy using yours.
I wonder the same thing, if The Wire will ever shake its reputation.
http://www.efterklang.net/
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I seem to be getting that question a lot lately, and unfortunately, I'm further from furnishing an ETA than ever before. I was hoping to get there in Jan/Feb for a week, but money was tight before I went unemployed, so worse now. Plus, all the writing I'm getting done, I'm fearful to do anything that might injure The Routine. And the more I think about it, why the fuck would I go back to Chicago in the winter. Winter in Chicago is one of the reasons I was glad to be gone from there. Spring, on the other hand, ah, that sounds like my cup of tea (well, not really, because it would have to be a word that rhymed with 'kava root' for it to sound like my tea, but you get the idea).
But, yes, I most certainly would have time for a beer. I'll let you know when travel plans are afoot.
by the by, i have not been to lincoln hall but been by the biograph a gazillion times as i used to live off fullerton on surrey court...an old two flat that felt all of 1920. looks like the folks who owned "schubas" opened the place
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for what its worth, we're getting belted by the blizzard.
With the new pricing scheme, these "double albums" aren't a deal anymore. Even though all they do is reissue the exact same albums as previously released so that they're more of a bargain so that people will buy them up, Emu considers them "new releases" and prices them at .79/track, basically wiping out the value. On the one I checked, it's still a bit cheaper by fifty cents, but that seems to be defeating the purpose.
I would like to add, however, that even at 7.50, that double album has a lot of wonderful music on it, and were I to see that as a physical cd in the store, I would jump all over it. Great music, Efterklang is (and like Yoda, Jonahpwll is speaking like).
However, it might be worth holding off purchasing any of those Efterklang "doubles" until emu no longer considers them new releases and the price drops down to .49/track.
I listened to the first track, though it was okay, but never went back to listen to the rest of the album. I hope I like the rest of the album more. I still listen to my other Efterklang albums relatively frequently.
- Here's what Other Music writes about it:
They have two tracks for streaming on Soundcloud:
+ a nice video on Youtube:
The Ghost performed by Efterklang & Sydney Symphony in Sydney Opera House