New Band Discovery: EfterKlang

amirm

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Heard the music from band "Efterklang" from my usual source of modern music discovery: The American So You Think You Can Dance TV show. I usually buy one or two CDs as a result of watching the show as they dance to wonderful tunes. The recent episode was no exception.

Efterklang is Danish band but they live in Germany. The music is complex and style varied. It is part soundtrack, part instrumental, part vocal, part strange instruments.

The album I got was two-CD pack and there is not a bad song in there: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VSPS82/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1343616432&sr=301-1



Hard to pick sample tracks as they are all wonderful. But here are a few:

Let this develop past 2:00 minute mark:


Again let this one develop past 1:00 minute:

See how the style changed in the above song to that of a movie soundtrack?

Few albums have captured the style of modern music I like as these guys have (the main competitor being Olafur Arnalds). One of the best purchases I have made....
 

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