Things We Have in Common Efterklang

• 1 Balancing Stones 03:36
• 2 Plant 03:49
• 3 Getting Reminders 02:42
• 4 Ambulance 04:55
• 5 Leave It All Behind 04:02
• 6 Animated Heart 04:36
• 7 Shelf Break 04:35
• 8 Sentiment 03:31
• 9 To a New Day 03:44
• Total Runtime 35:30

Info for Things We Have in Common

Mit dem 7ten Album schliessen sich ein paar Kreise, denn es erscheint 20 Jahre nach ihrem Debutalbum. Zudem ist das 2007 ausgestiegene Efterklang-Gründungsmitglied Rune Mølgaard wieder Teil der Band, nachdem er sich der mormonischen Kirche angeschloßen hatte, bei der er 2022 aber wieder austrat. aus der Kirche austrat. 7 der 9 Songs sind mit ihm entstanden, seine spirituelle Reise beeinflusste maßgeblich Inhalt und Ton des Albums, das ansonsten vom festen Bandkern Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen und Rasmus Stolberg fantasievoll und gefühlvoll gestaltet wurde. Inhaltlich geht es um Freundschaft, Zugehörigkeit, Glauben und Verständnis, Themen, die in der Musik spürbar sind, die sanft und erhebend, heilend und mitreißend ist und sowohl mit gezupften Gitarrenlinien als auch wallenden Synthiechords, vielfältigem Klaviereinsatz oder Ornamentierungen mit Orchesterinstrumenten und Chören hantiert. Als Gäste: Zach Condon von Beirut, der finnische Schlagzeuger Tatu Rönkkö, der venezolanische Gitarrist Hector Tosta und die guatemaltekische Cellistin und Sängerin Mabe Fratti. Der italienische Mixer Francesco Donadello und der Süddänische Mädchenchor haben dem Album auch ihren Stempel aufgedrückt.

Efterklang

Efterklang
Marking the group’s return seven years after their last studio release – a period of transition, of high adventures and creative questing – Efterklang’s fifth album Altid Sammen is their finest yet. Bold and ambitious, yet engaging on a primal and emotional level, the album is steeped in the experimentation that has been their trademark since their debut album, 2004’s Tripper, but is more elemental than they’ve yet dared to be. The music of Altid Sammen (the title means “Always Together”) is deep and sonorous. Their trademark tapestry of acoustic and electronic elements, woven together so expertly one hardly notices how each strengthens the other, has never sounded more accomplished. Sounds from the baroque and digital eras strike perfect harmonies together, bound together by Casper Clausen’s warm, weathered and wise vocals. The album will be released on the band's own label Rumraket in the Nordic and on 4AD in rest of the world.

Approached by B.O.X – a Belgian ensemble founded by lute player Pieter Theuns, performing new music with baroque orchestration – Casper Clausen (vocal), Mads Brauer (synth, electronics) and Rasmus Stolberg (bass) composed material for a joint performance at Theuns’ own mixMass festival in Antwerp in January 2018. But the music they began writing for this performance soon took on a life of its own. The performance left Efterklang fired-up to commit this work to tape. “We walked offstage feeling super-elevated,” says Stolberg. “Let’s get into a studio and document this.” Their initial plan was to record the album solely in collaboration with the B.O.X ensemble. But later that summer the trio appeared at Berlin’s PEOPLE festival, a 7-day experience where musicians from around the world (including Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner, Beirut’s Zach Condon, Justin Vernon, Feist and the Dessner brothers, along with 150 more artists) collaborate and perform in various new ensembles. As well as performing with various friends new and old, the trio also played together as Efterklang, revisiting the new songs, but this time with other musicians onstage. “And we realised then, these songs deserved our full attention – the scope of possibilities was inspiring,” says Stolberg. “It was time to make a new Efterklang album.”

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