What room is there in today's ZAP-POW society for calmness? If you've not achieved exactly what you wanted by yesterday, you've failed. We rush forward frenetically, and the music we listen to while doing it reflects the ultra-economic, all-surface-no-feeling, instant-impact world around it. Stopping and reflecting is for WIMPS!It turns out that this might not be so smart. Anxiety reigns supreme a
Presentando el primer sencillo del nuevo disco de Efterklang, el nombre del album es Parades y el del sencillo es Mirador, los videos de esta agrupación danésa se distinguen por tener una carga artística impresionante y esta vez no fue la excepción, la canción y el disco son geniales y esperamos que dejen mucho de que hablar para lo que resta de este año y del que sigue. Disfrutenlo!
I UPLOADED THIS IN .OGG FORMAT.... many of you will need to convert this before it will work. Tripper is the debut full-length by the 10-piece Danish ensemble Efterklang, a band whose name translates literally to "after-noise" but more loosely to "reverberation" or "remembrance." All of these translations are in one way or another appropriate descriptors for the wondrous music created by the group, which settles beautifully into an open area somewhere between the elegant minimalist orchestrations of Max Richter, the electronically-enhanced chamber music of Rachel's albums like Systems/Layers, and the more contemplative moments of Godspeed! You Black Emperor. The most obvious characteristic that separates Efterklang from these other artists is their extensive use of vocals to augment their spacious orchestral sound. The band regularly alternates between male and female lead vocals, and on many tracks it also employs a full Greenlandic choir. In addition, the band's roster now includes
