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  • We're on Your Side

    RUM019

    Artist: Slaraffenland

    Label: Rumraket

    We´re On Your Side is the third full-length album from Copenhagen based Slaraffenland. It is without doubt their best and most accessible album yet.

    Lovers of eccentric beauty and artists like Broken Social Scene, Akron/Family, Arcade Fire and Animal Collective will find a new favorite band in Slaraffenland

    Slaraffenland is Bjørn Heebøll, Christian Taagehøj, Jeppe Skjold, Mike Taagehøj and Niklas Antonson

    All Music and Lyrics written by Slaraffenland
    Recorded at Mexico City, Copenhagen – Fall and Winter 2008
    Produced by Slaraffenland & Fridolin
    Mixed and Mastered by Fridolin and Frederik Tao for Brutal Mastering

    Artwork by Cody Hudson

    Special Thanks to Girlfriends, Kids, Families and Friends

    Thanks to Sara, Adam, Rasmus, Arnbjørn, Fridolin, Frederik Tao, Cody, Peter, Efterklang, Labelmates, Petter, Team Clermont, Jim, Felix, Geert, Celine, Tobi, Mattias, Eirik, ROSA, MXD, Artisten, Koda and The Danish Arts Council.

  • Meet and Greet

    RUM018

    Artist: Slaraffenland

    Label: Rumraket

    Meet and Greet is the first single from the upcoming third album by Slaraffenland and it is a perfect song and title for introducing a new chapter in the ever-growing history of the Copenhagen based band.

    The b-side of the single is My Bad Ways, which is a very powerful outtake from the album recordings that took place in the studio Mexico City with the successful Danish producer Fridolin.

    September the 7th 2009 the entire album will be released. The title is We´re On Your Side and it will be released simultaneously in Europe and USA (via Hometapes). It is without doubt the best and most accessible album by Slaraffenland yet. Rumraket looks forward to make this album available so everybody can fall in love.

    Someone who already fell in love is the famed French video artist Vincent Moon. You know him from the many Blogotheque/TakeAwayShows.com videos and his work with bands like Arcade Fire, Beirut, The National and R.E.M. He has been following Slaraffenland for the last two years and for the album release this will culminate with a big collaboration between Slaraffenland and Vincent Moon. More details of this project can be revealed soon.

  • Sunshine

    RUM016

    Artist: Slaraffenland

    Label: Rumraket

    a new EP from Danish Slaraffenland! including three new brilliant songs and two cover songs of monumental and legendary songs by Aha and Radiohead! For lovers of eccentric beauty everywhere!

    Slaraffenland has traveled the world extensively since the release of their second album Private Cinema last June. They have played concerts around Europe and toured in the US several times - the last US tour was the month long Danish Dynamite Tour with fellow label mates (& owners) Efterklang in May 2008.

    And the traveling hasn’t finished at all. Starting September 2008 they will embark on a new tour in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Benelux and France. In relation to the upcoming tour Rumraket is proud to release a new EP by Slaraffenland entitled Sunshine. The release comes in custom designed and printed cardboard covers and features 5 new recordings - among them two covers of legendary and monumental songs by Aha and Radiohead!

    The EP starts off with I’m a Machine and The Trick which have been live favorites for the band and audiences since last summer Both songs feature the Slaraffenland trademark gang singing and chanting on top of a foundation of innovative percussion with gritty yet beautiful and constantly changing and effect driven guitar and brass arrangements.

    Track 3 on the EP is a cover of the 80 classics Take on Me by Aha and Slaraffenland nails it! You are at no time in doubt that this is Slaraffenland playing and still the original songs stands out clearly. Hig...

  • Private Cinema

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    Artist: Slaraffenland

    Label: Rumraket

    Stereogum.com wrote: “Band to Watch!”
    Eardrums wrote: “the sound of paradise comes from Denmark”

    Slaraffenland is Danish for “the land of milk and honey” and this spring, Slaraffenland, the band, is bringing buckets of the good stuff to all good people on both sides of the Atlantic, with their third release, the full-length Private Cinema.

    Private Cinema carries songs that are distinct, powerful, and melodic and at the same time enigmatic and searching. With the band's first-ever recorded vocals, Private Cinema beautifully brings together exquisite songwriting and improvisation with deliberation, skill and equal amounts of recklessness.

    The band has spent years developing a sound that conjures everything from avant-garde to noise to melodious addictive rock to haunting unison vocals and Private Cinema is bound to thrill connoisseurs of differing bands like Sonic Youth, The Beach Boys and Akron/Family.

    Based in Copenhagen, Slaraffenland found its final formation in 2002: Christian Taagehøj, Mike Taagehøj, Bjørn Heebøll, Niklas Antonsson and Jeppe Skjold.

    The band began their own label, Honningmand Records, to release their self-titled debut album in 2004. This was quickly followed in 2005 by Jinkatawa, an EP produced by Mads Brauer and Casper Clausen (from Efterklang & Rumraket)

    Private Cinema is release number eight on Rumraket and for this one the label is working closely with the lovely US label Hometapes. Together the two labels will make the album ...