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 artiest:
EFTERKLANG
song: Step aside
cd: Tripper
label/referentie: Leaf/Konkurrent/BAY 40CD
Step aside
uit Tripper, het debuut van Efterklang uit Kopenhagen.
Dat is een groep rond Rasmus Stolberg. Hij motiveert en organiseert
de hele bende en daarnaast speelt hij ook nog gitaar en drums.
Ik zei "de hele bende" want ze zijn met zes en bij
concerten staan ze zelfs met tien op het podium. Maar Efterklang
is vier jaar geleden begonnen als een trio. Samen met twee vrienden
trok Rasmus naar Kopenhagen om er muziek te maken. Al hadden
ze zelf geen flauw idee van hoe of wat.
RASMUS STOLBERG: No, we didn't. That's
what we spent two years in the rehearsal room to find out. Many
people call it electronica, and actually we never put a finger
on electronic music before. So it all started for Efterklang
in the year 2000 and forward. So we had no idea that this would
be the result. When we work now, we know what we can do and what
we want to do. We still experiment a lot. But when we started
all we did was experimenting with forms and melodies and instruments
especially. And sounds. It took two years to find this way.
Voilà! Het was voor hen ook een
verrassing dat hun muziek zo zou gaan klinken, want de drie Efterklang-boys
hadden allemaal een rockachtergrond. En van computers wisten
ze niets af. Maar al doende leer je.
RASMUS STOLBERG: We use our computers
not just for beats. We mainly use them for giving atmosphere,
and it can be the sound of water, the sound of people talking
somewhere. It can be anything. Some of the sounds are generated
sounds. Maybe they're generated out of someone banging a bottle
and then you generate a sound of it and use it. And some of the
sounds are recordings of people talking. When we went on travels,
we always brought mini discs and microphones to record. Instead
of bringing a camera we brought recording gears. And now we have
this huge catalogue of sounds in our studio, so you can always
find a strange sound in our studio, in the library. And now we
don't go out so much anymore, because we have the sounds, but
maybe we should try to do it again. It's a good thing when you
travel, to record things, instead of taking pictures.
En zo kreeg Efterklang dus het etiketje
"elektronische muziek". Toch is dat is maar één
kant van de medaille. En dat hoor je heel goed in een nummer
als Collecting shields.
RASMUS STOLBERG: "Collecting
shields" is a good song to describe what Efterklang is.
Because "Collecting shields" is divided into two parts.
The first one is very electronic, but still has a lot of singing
and also a lot of percussion. And then the song changes and is
almost only acoustic. Except from some noise made on computer.
So in this "Collecting shields", you could almost call
it an Efterklang rhapsody. Because in this "Collecting shields"
we move in all spectres of our music in just one song.
artiest: EFTERKLANG
song: Collecting shields
cd: Tripper
label/referentie: Leaf/Konkurrent/BAY 40CD
Efterklang ten voeten uit in Collecting
shields uit de debuutplaat Tripper. Die titel, is
dat Engels of Deens?
RASMUS STOLBERG: We wanted it to be a word with lots of meanings
like Efterklang is. Tripper is a Danish word and it's an English
word. Tripper in Danish means several things. But first it means
if you're waiting for something good to happen to you and you
can't wait for it to happen, you get on your feet and do small
jumps. Because you want that thing to happen to you and you can't
wait. And that's called a tripper. Tripper means to do that.
In English you have the word day-tripper, that's a good title
for the album too. Someone travelling. Because that's what lot
of our music can be described as: as travels, musical travels
or something like that.
Zo zit dat dus. En nu we toch op reis
zijn door de rijkdom van de Deense taal: wat betekent dan Efterklang?
RASMUS STOLBERG: Efterklang is a Danish word for "remembrance".
It is also a technical music word for "reverberation".
And it's a word for remembrance at the same time. There are lots
of good things to remember, it depends on who you are. I think
everybody has something good to remember. If you don't have anything
to remember you can always dream something up, that's what I
recommend. Dream of something you don't know what are. Remembering
things you don't know what is. That's kind of nice. You can remember
feelings you don't know. You can remember feelings in your life
and you can remember situations. That's kind of what I try to
explain. When you remember back on your childhood, you can't
actually remember specific details, but you can remember what
you felt and how it was. Maybe you can remember pictures or lights
or smells or a personal feeling, hopefully a good feeling. That's
what I remember from my childhood.
Droom van iets dat je niet weet wat zijn
of herinner je dingen waarvan je niet weet wat is, in dat charmante
Deens-Engels kun je zo'n dingen zeggen. Maar bij Cucamonga staan
we toch meer met de voeten op de grond. En dus wil ik wel weten
hoe dat dan precies moet?
RASMUS STOLBERG: A lot of the lyrics just explain a feeling,
stages between sleeping and being awake. I don't know if you
ever tried to dream but not sleep right before you fall asleep
or right before you wake up. You can sometimes dream but at the
same time you feel that you are not sleeping anymore. But you
still dream. This is a very special feeling and stage. And I
think actually many of the lyrics try to describe this feeling.
artiest: EFTERKLANG
song: Swarming
cd: Tripper
label/referentie: Leaf/Konkurrent/BAY 40CD
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