Rumracket/Leaf Rec.
Efterklang : Under Giant Trees (DK,2007)****
The small portion of PC-deviced rhythmic evolutions of clicks, which in an earlier generation could only be generated as a tape cutting-and-pasting technique (with longer time intervals in those days), still is present, as one of the subtle layers, enriched and alternated with strings and trumpet, with a chamber music-like feeling, and developed like a filmic-theatre piece. The music was originally written to be performed live during concerts from 2005. The subtle orchestrated feeling (with many guests) still originates from a new or art rock band, with its own, new vision, using piano, harp, guitar, glockenspiel, Fender Rhodes, …, guitar and strings with larger instrumental section to songs, where other members sing along, not like a classical inspired choir, but in a sing-a-long way, with a few occasional weird harmonies. The album is a fine contribution to the area of groups like Silver Mt.Zion, Cerberus Shoal, in a more moody and complex-linear evolving way. Another convincing album, by this talented group, a limited and numbered edition of 4500 CDs and 1200 white vinyl copies.
Solo project of singer Anna Broensted as Our Broken Garden on next page->
