Our Broken Garden on the Bella Union label is a remarkable music project from Efterklang member Anna Brønsted.* With a crepuscular sound, evocative of that certain magical time just around 6am (as the day is slipping into its ending or blinking into its beginning), these songs have a cinematic, yet sonically lo-fi, organic grandeur. Brønsted's voice shimmers bewitchingly over the surface of moog, drums, mellotron, strings and guitars conjuring compositions originated from a paradisal period in her native Denmark when she moved into a rural abandoned school with friends. There she was able to write elegiac pieces that explore human optimism, fragility and doubt in resonant images drawn from the elements of water and air.At times reminiscent of Portishead, Sigur Rós, and Cranes, these songs linger in the mind long after their hauntingly mellifluous notes have evaporated. Recently playing live in the UK, 2008 has seen them release their Lost Sailor EP and their first full-length album When Your Blackening Shows. They make life richer, sumptuously poetic and full of an epic beauty.
*backed by Søren Bigum (guitars & keys), Palle Hjorth (organ & keys), Moogie Johnson (bass), Poul Terkildsen (drums) and guests Lise Westzynthius (vocals), Robert Karlsson (strings) among others.
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