If you supply the audience, Efterklang will screen their new film in your home – so Maddy Costa did just that
'We're really on a mission here," declares Rasmus Stolberg, the neatly moustachioed bassist for Efterklang. "Our challenge has never been about writing that love tune that will make everyone cry. It's about making music that could take people to a new place – and taking that music to new places."
Efterklang are hardly the first indie band to espouse such lofty ambitions: few, however, act upon them with such aplomb. The Danish quartet's 2007 album, Parades, was a symphonic extravaganza that came into its own when performed live with a chamber orchestra. As well as running their own record label, Rumraket, the band co-ordinate a youth project, Efterkids, designed to encourage schoolchildren across the globe to take up a musical instrument. For their latest trick, they've made An Island, a 40-minute film...
'We're really on a mission here," declares Rasmus Stolberg, the neatly moustachioed bassist for Efterklang. "Our challenge has never been about writing that love tune that will make everyone cry. It's about making music that could take people to a new place – and taking that music to new places."
Efterklang are hardly the first indie band to espouse such lofty ambitions: few, however, act upon them with such aplomb. The Danish quartet's 2007 album, Parades, was a symphonic extravaganza that came into its own when performed live with a chamber orchestra. As well as running their own record label, Rumraket, the band co-ordinate a youth project, Efterkids, designed to encourage schoolchildren across the globe to take up a musical instrument. For their latest trick, they've made An Island, a 40-minute film...
- 3/4/2011
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
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