Klak Tik

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'The delightfully named Soren Bonke, [...] has released an album for which ‘delightful’ is too faint a signifier of praise'
9/10 NME

'offers the same vulnerable intimacy Sufjan Stevens perfected on Illinoise'
*** Uncut

'brimful of folk and indie sounds embellished with ornate orchestral accompaniment'
Record Collector

'[an album this intensely self reflective] will probably intimidate your average Radio One listeners back into their Scouting for Girls hidey holes'
4/5 Redbricks Magazine

'students of late-period Radiohead will find much to savour in Klak Tik's multi-layered explorations'
The Music Fix

'It is easy to hear that this album has got an independent heart. Boldly moving from instrument to instrument, with an ease and confidence that could only be so fluid in a home studio'
Subba-Cultcha

'this really is genuinely a beautiful album'
Total Music Magazine

'Must We Find a Winner’ out now on Safety First Records
CD (with 100% recycled packaging) and digital download

"Speak Klak Tik", the rain said, and I understood.

Creating genre-dodging alternative/orchestral/experimental folk, Klak Tik is the brainchild of Soren Bonke, a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist hailing from the outskirts of Copenhagen. Working together with a former band-mate and a stray kiwi from their instrument-laden home in East London, and being joined by various talented cohorts to form their 8-piece live act, they expand upon sparse and tender folk tunes to produce multi-layered, pseudo-orchestral pieces of music.

Taking full advantage of their entirely independent approach to recording, and Bonke’s ability to play brass, strings and extract music from nigh anything he touches, the band spent summer 2009 in their home/studio exploring the freedoms of a multi-tracking environment by writing and recording their debut album ‘Must We Find a Winner’.

Releasing the album in June 2010 on Safety First Records, via Cadiz/ Universal Music, to both popular and critical acclaim (with media praise including a 9/10 review from NME and 3 Stars from Uncut) Klak Tik have taken the album to the live arena, performing their songs to enamoured audiences throughout the summer.

Since release, Klak Tik have sold out the stunning Hoxton Hall for their album launch party, played the Magpies Nest ‘Folk Rising’ showcase at Cecil Sharp House, supported Bella Union artist Chimes & Bells at the Town Hall of Copenhagen’s self-proclaimed autonomous neighborhood Freetown Christiania, and continued to impress as a live act capable of producing moments of true beauty and emotion.

Bonke’s compositional talents have also been publicly recognized in other mediums, with the music he provided for the Doctors Without Borders charity spot winning a Danish True Award and his soundtrack to The Black Dog’s Progress, a short animation, winning Best Music at the 2010 British Animation Awards.

Melodies writing rhythms, with harmonies disobediently following suit and intersecting instrumental lines cascading atop. Lyrical imagery and inquisition, the beating of chests (of a predominantly wooden variety) and sounds of mixed heritage being caressed and coerced into place. This is the language of Klak Tik.



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The EP Collecting Samples.
You can download it for free from
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Member Since:

February 25, 2008

Members:

Soren Bonke
Jonathan Beyer
Matthew Mitchinson
Chris Woodham
Louisa Wood
Nat Witts
Alexandra Mountain
Fred Feeney

CONTACT

The Band:
klaktik@yahoo.com

For press inquiries please email:
ken@hermana.co.uk
or
alison@hermana.co.uk

Influences:

Many

Sounds Like:

A Scandinavian fugitive with severe middle child syndrome

Record Label:

Safety First Records