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. Highly recommended!

Dust is another new promising Slaraffenland song. Years ago this was an instrumental composition, now it has vocals a new arrangement and intriguing lyrics.

A cover of Radioheads legendary Paranoid Android ends this encouraging EP. This cover was also released as part of OKX a tribute to OK Computer compiled by Stereogum.com in the summer of 2007.

The CD version of the EP will be very limited so we suggest getting hold of a physical version as soon as you get the chance. The CD release date is October 7 but it will also be sold at concerts before that date. Sunshine will also be pre-released digitally September 15th 2008. Across the pond in The US and in UK Sunshine will be released by the lovely label Hometapes from Portland, Oregon.

At the end of 2008 Slaraffenland will start recording what will become their yet untitled third full-length album. We highly anticipate that!

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 available in a vast number of countries across Europe and North America

Private Cinema is recorded on the same studio equipment as Efterklangs debut album Tripper and the two bands share a member, as Niklas also is part of the Efterklang live band.

My Old Kentucky Blog wrote: “It's multi-layered and very, very fresh. Their sound blends up Sonic Youth, some Sigur Ros and some Architecture In Helsinki even.”