Once a week, I spend an hour going through Live Music Vancouver's site and clicking on bands that I don't know to hear what they sound like. The name Efterklang was compelling and I clicked. Bam! - lush orch-pop from Denmark. Danish people are weird, I should know: I live with one. Coming from a country who's king refused to give up their Jews during WW2 should make them happy but on the whole they tend to be good looking intellectuals that are secretly depressed. I had the chance to ask Rasmus Stolberg, lead guitarist and singer of Efterklang a few questions but I did so only after checking if he was on meds. His personal Myspace page seemed to offer evidence that he is not: "About me: I try to be nice and friendly all the time. That's why I never go out." Perfectly sane, it seems.

Tanya Harding: Have you been to Vancouver before?
Rasmus Stolberg: Never before! We look forward to visiting and playing there!
Tanya: Can you describe your sound?
Rasmus: We always have trouble doing this. Lately we have been describing it
as experimental orchestral pop music.
T: How many people can we expect to see on stage?
R: We will be seven people on stage. There will be a lot of instruments and
all of us will sing the best we can. You can also expect to see happy
smiling faces - we like what we do and we are not afraid of showing it.
T: What is the weirdest instrument that you use on stage?
R: Maybe it is Casper! He is pretty weird when I come to think of it.
T: What Danish phrase should everyone know?
R: "Livet forstås baglæns, men må leves forlæns" (“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”). Søren Kierkegaard said that and we have the quote on our shared VISA card!
T: What Danish phrase should we yell at you at your March 6th gig at the Media Club?
R: Vi elsker jer! (We love you)
T: How many albums does Efterklang have out?
R: Two albums and two mini albums and various other nice things.
T: What does your name mean?
R: It means reverberation - but is also used for remembrance.

Efterklang plays Friday March 6th with Peter Broderick @ The Media Club Posted: Mar 5, 2009