Danish National Academy of Music performing Afenginn
On Friday the 3rd of February a group of 11 musicians from the Danish National Academy of Music will perform the Klingra album from beginning to end. This special performance will take place at Tobakken in Esbjerg as part of the Folk & Fæstival.
Klingra - the band: new home for the Klingra album
The new band Klingra will adopt our latest album Klingra album and pass that baton on from here. What what what?? Read more about it below!
In 2019 we released our seventh album Klingra. An album with a lot of ties to the Faroe Islands. It was recorded up there in collaboration with many Faroese musicians: Teitur and Dánjal á Neystabø on pianos, Mikael Blak on bass, Ólavur Jákupsson singing the faroese lyrics (by the same aforementioned Dánjal). It also features Maggie Björklund on pedal steel guitar and Danish String Quartet on strings - altogether making Klingra a rather different experience than our previous records. Soundwise as well as stylistically.
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Klingra out now!
It’s a big day today in the Afenginn world. Klingra – the seventh Afenginn album – is released on all the major platforms, as well as physically worldwide.
It’s an album that I’m very proud of and excited to share with everybody. Hope you’ll like it!
4th single “Eftirskjálvtin” out today
The 4th single (and last before the release of the full album) is now available on Spotify and wherever you stream music. It’s called Eftirskjálvtin (The Aftershock) and is one of the two openings on the A-side on the vinyl edition, and the last track on the digital and CD version of Klingra.