demanding bass role. One day, Aske was hanging around in the studio and was asked whether he knew a good bass player. He promptly answered: “Ask me!”. They thought about it, went for the offer and welcomed Aske as a new Afenginn member in April 2006. ’Akrobakkus’ got rave reviews and the band went on an extensive release tour visiting Denmark, Switzerland, Faroe Islands and Estonia. Later in the summer, they were invited to play festivals in Sweden and the big Dranouter Festival in Belgium. A big festival gig was a new experience for the relatively young band. It was a great success... until the power shut down. Fortunately, this happened in the sing-along part of “Andante Mobile”, putting the band at work directing the audience from the stage until the power came back on. When this happened, the scream from the audience was overwhelming, sending the band into a moment of communal ecstasy. After the concert, Kim presented the other members with his ideas for the band's third album. This would be a concept album featuring the Finnish poet Timo Haapaniemi's abstract syntax error poems in a home-made language, referred to as “street latin”. This would be sung by a male choir and orchestrated for Afenginn, obviously, and a brass band. In November, the long anticipated movie “Elgen kommer” (“The Moose comes”) by Jacob Remin premiered in Filmhuset in Copenhagen with Afenginn responsible for the music and some of the hype surrounding this poor creature. Read more about the moose here. Working in New York (2007) In January the band took their first trip across the Atlantic to New York to collaborate with Frank London, composer and trumpet player in Klezmatics. They rehearsed and worked on some music together for one intense week, which culminated in a couple of shows in New York. Read more about this collaboration here. The followed several tours in various European countries. Meanwhile, Kim worked on new material and in November Afenginn started rehearsing and recording ‘Reptilica Polaris’ in Aske's studio. Read more about the making of Reptilica Polaris here. Big name - big grant (2008) Most of January was used on working on ‘Reptilica Polaris’. At this point, the band was rather exhausted, the recordings had been quite strenuous, and when invited to play at the prestigious By:Larm Festival in Oslo, they needed a break more than the honour, although the shows were