2003

The film-maker Karim Ghahwagi joined the ensemble in the beginning of 2003 and accompanied the band's well received debut Ep “Springer” with extensive video collage work. Springer was released on Efterklangs own label Rumraket and came packaged in white fake fur in only 500 copies. The band played their first live shows in Denmark in the spring of 2003 bringing audiences a subtle blend of acoustics, electronics and video imagery.

The development of Efterklang's first full length studio album “Tripper” began in the fall of 2003 in the band's own recording studio in the heart of Copenhagen and incorporated violins, brass instruments, a Greenlandic choir and a fully integrated video collage score.

34 musicians guested the recordings of Tripper among them Hildur Àrsælsdóttir and Edda Rún Olafsdóttir from the Icelandic string quartet Amiina.

2004

In July 2004 Efterklang signed to the british The Leaf Label. The 25th of October Tripper was released in USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, Australia and South Africa. Tripper is the fastest selling debut record in Leafs 10 year history. It has received remarkable good reviews and airplay on radio stations across North America and Europe.

The Guardian wrote: "this is the album to spend your tokens on. Five stars"

Pitchfork rated it 7.9 and wrote: “Astonishing… this music should continue to reverberate in your memory for a long time to come"

In late 2004 the Mtv program This is Our Music, did a 30-minute documentary on Efterklang.

2005

Efterklang toured Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Benelux, Prague, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris and The UK as a 8 piece band. Simultaneuosly they began the work on their next album. In February the song Swarming taken from Tripper was released as a radio and iTunes single with remixex among others by Bjørk producer Thomas Knak aka Opiate and a musicvideo by Karim Ghahwagi. In April the debut Springer EP (2003) was re-released by The Leaf Label worldwide on cd and vinyl.

Efterklang visited several high profile summer festivals in 2005 among them was Roskilde, Hultsfred, Quart, Sonar and The Big Chill.

In total Efterklang played 49 concerts in 2005 as a 8-piece band.

In August 2005 Efterklang signed the first bands to their own Rumraket label. New York act Grizzly Bear and Japanese trio Cacoy.

2006

So far the whole year has been spend on writing and recording material for the bands next mini-album and full length album. It is expected that the two albums will be released in 2007.

(source: www.rumraket.com)