Slaraffenland

It's obviously going to be one of those weeks. I've written about Rumraket, but never their band Slaraffenland , until a recent conversation I had with the lovely Adam and Sara of Hometapes from whom Rumraket have licensed the recoprd within Scandinavia (It's on Hometapes elsewhere)

It always warms my heart when people care so much about what they're doing that they say great things about the people they're working with. Take this for example:

"...They are absolutely lovely people...we just had the opportunity to go on a five show mini tour in the US with them ending up at SXSW in Austin, Texas. It was so much fun...."

Maybe I'm just soft-hearted... As for Slaraffenland? Well, I'll let you make your own mind up, but, in my (humble?) opinion, they live up to what's been said. So go! Download! Now!

Polaroids

Nada Brahman

Cockaigne

Efterklang and other stuff

The lovely folks at the Leaf Label have given us an Efterklang MP3 to give to you all as an Easter present (by the time this goes up, it'll be post-Easter, but hey... I'm at the big old capitalist land they call the US for a little while (I go back to London tomorrow) so I apologise for the somewhat sporadic posts- it's...5 am on a Sunday, and my body thinks it's 10am...

Somehow, I don't think that Efterklang need any introduction to any of you, but I'll give you a brief spew of information anyway... In a short sentence: Efterklang are purveyors of sonic soundscapes for the masses and the geniuses (or should that be genii? I knew I should have paid more attention in latin class...) behind the Rumraket label (covered here). So there. Just download it, Ok??

Towards The Bare Hill

(It may be limited edition until I can work out how to do it when I don't have a link...)

On other news... can ANYONE help me out with Roskilde tickets? It's frustrating as hell to have to wait and see until the start of May whether they've accepted my proposal, when the line up is sooooooooooooooo good. If anyone wants to try to catch up with me at sometime during this year's drunken fun, just drop an email or whatever....

Efterklang..

To my detriment, I've been a bit rubbish and haven't checked my old e-mail account lately. If I had, I would have found a few lovely email from Rumraket (one of the friendliest labels in the world) and Efterklang. Shame on me.



Swarming- Efterklang

In order to atone my sins (and get rid of my post-curry awakeness...I knowit's not a word, but who cares... I don't have a pedant's corner y'know... ), and due to the fact that I've remembered how great they are (and how much they make me happy in a blissful kinda way) I thought I'd treat you all...

Jojo - live recording from Nalen, Stockholm nov 2005.

Monopolist - from Tripper (2004).

Redrop - from mini-album Springer (2003).

Swarming (Antenne version) - from Swarming single (2005)

Step Aside (covered by Tobias Hellkvist) - the original Step Aside can be found on the album Tripper (2004)

Efterklang. They say they're nice and friendly people from Copenhagen, and who are we to argue?

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