a resolutely diy effort, moby recorded the album in his home studio ("although 'studio' always seems like an overly grand word for a bunch of equipment set up in a bedroom."), drew the album artwork with a black sharpie on copy paper, asked his friends to record the vocals ("working with friends is almost always nicer than working with rock stars") and asked another friend, photographer jessica dimmock, to take the press photos.

in addition, friend ken thomas (sigur ros, throbbing gristle, m83) came on board to help mix the record: "mixing the record with him was really nice, as he's creatively open to trying anything - like recording an old broken bakelite radio and running it through some broken old effects pedals to see what it would sound like. it's on the record as a :45 second long track called 'stock radio'". moby and thomas mixed the record using purely analog equipment in true stereo, akin to how records were mixed in the late 60's. as a result, the songs sound pretty amazing on headphones.

the songs also sound best when listened to as a cohesive body of work. while each track stands on its own merit, ‘wait for me’ was recorded and arranged to be listened to from start to finish. in today's single-driven music industry an album that holds together as a collective entity is a rarity. an album that holds itself to standards higher than commercial measures of success is even more rare.


Wait For Me

The inspiration for this one seemed to be late... it didn't come until after I'd made 18. The Moon and 19. The Sun. But when it did finally arrive, it blew my mind... it felt magical. And it's now one of my top three tracks on the album.

17. The Stars

06-massive attack-protection

13 HER - Quite Like

Morcheeba performing The Sea, live on KRWC

Morcheeba The Sea Live

Taken from the album “LEAVES - The Colour of Falling (performed by Efterklang & The Happy Hopeless Orchestra)” by Efterklang and Karsten Fundal (out on Tambourhinoceros on Nov 4th 2016).

More info and pre-order: www.smarturl.it/EfterklangLeaves
/ www.efterklang.net/home/?p=2556

TOUR DATES 2017:
Feb 22 - Copenhagen, Store Vega, Denmark 
Feb 23 - Uppsala, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, Sweden
Mar 02 – Eindhoven, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven / Cross Linx – Holland
Mar 03 - Groningen, De Oosterpoort / Cross Linx – Holland
Mar 04 - Rotterdam, De Doelen / Cross Linx – Holland
Mar 05 - Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw / Cross Linx – Holland
Mar 09 – London, Barbican – England
Mar 10 – Brussels, Ancienne Belgique – Belgium

Efterklang and The Happy Hopeless Orchestra are:

Vocalists: 
Lisbeth Balslev (soprano)
Morten Grove Frandsen (countertenor)
Katinka Fogh Vindelev (soprano)
Nicolai Elsberg (bass)
Casper Clausen (Efterklang)

Musicians:
Mads Brauer (electronics, Efterklang)
Rasmus Stolberg (bass, Efterklang)
Bjarke Mogensen (accordion)
Jenny Lüning (bratsch)
Josefine Weber (bratsch)
Marie Louise Lind (cello)
Josefine Opsahl (cello) 
Ying-Hsueh Chen (percussion)
Sara Nigard Rosendal (percussion) 
Michael Min Knudsen (harmonium, celeste)

Lyrics by Ursula Andkjær Olsen:

THE COLOUR NOT OF LOVE

the colour of
not of love
the colour, not of
the colour of falling in
not of love 
of falling in
in

the colour of fall
the colour of 
green
green
falling in
jasmine

green seen in the dark
in the night 
fall with me in
the colour of green in the night
the colour of fall, of falling in love
is a leaf 

not of love
not of love
not of love
not of love
love
love

the colour of falling
the colour of falling
is love


EFTERKLANG / FUNDAL - The COLOUR NOT OF LOVE

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