Efterklang – Dublin, Cork & New Music

Efterklang play Cork & Dublin next month, but first here’s a video for Hollow Mountain, the first track from their forthcoming album Piramida.

Piramid will be released on September 24th – Preorder it now.

This visual piece accompanying Hollow Mountain is created and directed by Oodls (Jakob Steen & Christoffer Frandsen). The piece features the band’s own photos from their trip to Piramida as well as elements of Piramida album artwork (designed by Hvass&Hannibal).

The initial tones of Hollow Mountain are the sounds of protruding metal spikes of a curious-looking oil tank, which we found in Piramida. 

Hollow Mountain features contributions from Earl Harvin (drums, Tindersticks), Nils Frahm (wurlitzer), Peter Broderick (strings) and the 60-piece South Denmark’s Girls Choir. We hope you agree that this is nice song to open our new album with.

As previously revealed, the making of our new album started out in quite unusual fashion. In August 2011 we (Mads, Casper & Rasmus) travelled to Spitsbergen in the arctic. Our destination was the abandoned Russian settlement Piramida. It was left overnight in 1998 and today stands as a ghost town still full of relics from its past including the world northernmost grand piano. We spent 9 days in this ruin just a 1000 km from the North Pole and we collected over a 1000 recordings which we afterwards have used in different ways in the making of our new album.


Efterklang play Dublin’s Meeting House Square as part of the ABSOLUT Dublin Fringe on September 14th, and The Cork Opera House on September 15th. 

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