RETROGRAD

Retrograd is Afenginn’s debut album and was released on October 5th 2004 on TUTL Records. The album kicked off Afenginn’s career and received a Danish Music Award for “Best World Album” in 2005. Retrograd is an album with a playing time of 60 minutes of music generously arranged with strings and brass and accordion and this and that. Here’s where you’ll find the Elk Suite about the Swedish elk that swam to Denmark, the all time live favourite Tattar Humppa, the odd meter craze of Clapdance, the meditative Näcken and many other. A proud debut!

What others said:

"Afenginn’s debut album is an intoxicating experience with music of a very high intensity , which all the time finds new corners. It’s pure musical energy, completely at the tip of the toes. And mind you, it is virtuously exercised energy." Helge Knudsen, Dagbladet Arbejderen.

"You’ve got to be a real stiff neck not to be caught by Afenginn’s joy of playing" Bernhard Lewkowitz, Kristeligt Dagblad.

"Maybe the best Balkan rockers in the North! Afenginn has no problem in blending Nordic melancoly from violin and accordion with brutally dancable orgies of Balkan blowers and it is first and foremost here that their force is to be found. In the genre there are only a few who are at the same level as Afenginn.” Alex Regnér, www.musiklandet.nu

"Right now, one of the country’s most interesting folk music orchestras of all is Afenginn who is playing an irresistible mix of rock, punk, ska and traditional folk music. It is hyper energetic, virtuos, unrestrained, rattling, original and nothing less than screamingly amusing." Musikeren, february 2005

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Tracks

Tivoli Invaliid 03:20
Kazubstep 04:45
Sumpdronten á la Schwennske Orienten 04:53
Tattar intro 03:07
Tattar Humppa 05:38
Tsar Nob-Yld 06:27
Näcken 09:12
Ultravenøs Svovlkage 00:32
Niels på Færøerne 03:53
Mörkä Türcké 02:34
Clapdance 04:27
Elgen kommer 02:58
Elg polska 01:39
Dødstoget 02:10
Andante Definibus 03:24

15 tracks, total playing time 59 min 6 sec

Musicians

Rasmus Krøyer: clarinet, bass clarinet
Niels Skovmand: violin
Kim Rafael Nyberg: mandolin, mandola
Andrzej Krejniuk: bass guitar, double bass
Rune Kofoed: drums, percussion, xylophone

Anders Vesterdahl: accerdion
Lars Husum: trumpet
Ole Algreen Reimer: flugelhorn
Asger Nielsen: euphonium
Carl Viggo Jespersen: tuba
Christian Ellegaard: violin
Anne Augustinsson: viola
Marie Louise Lind: cello
Simon Bjarning: skraldofon, flexitone
Henrik Bjørslev: wooden flute

Credits

Music composed by Kim Rafael Nyberg, except Kazubstep by Andrzej Krejniuk and Niels på Færøerne by Niels Skovmand.

Produced by Henrik Bjørslev. Recorded by Karl Bjerre Skibsted at The Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in the summer of 2004. Mixed by Henrik Bjørslev, Karl Bjerre Skibsted and Afenginn. Mastered by Jan Eliasson at Tocano Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Band photos by Dag Hjorth Jensen. Label photo by Nina Olofsson. Graphic design, illustrations and background photos by Jakob Bendix, Wauhaus

Retrograd was funded with financial support from KODA and DMF. Huge thanks!!

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