"Call a wheel behind your eyes / Spinning out, on a tube and the tide / Rest in mirrors on the floor, realize / Move on across your face and mine..."
The utter magnetism of "Dreamweavers" by Danish composer, musician, and producer Trentemøller and featuring Icelandic artist DíSA , is stuffed deep in the crevices, the folds of sound, the fabric of the storytelling sonically and lyrically. For me music is a visual medium because really great songs make you see things. To say a song is cinematic can mean a lot of things. It can mean that it is suited or feels suited as a soundtrack. It can mean that it's artistic sweep, it's narrative is so moving that it feels like a movie in scope in import. "Dreamweavers" is cinematic in both those ways but it also is curiously / artistically vague and specific and feels like a mini-movie self contained in it's sound, storytelling, emotional thrust everything. It is hard to describe and I feel like I am at a loss to how to explain myself (smile) but I wanted to try.
Oh, and the song is married to a stunning Official Video by Danish director Jonas Bang. A video that certainly enhances the experience of the song but my words before were just about the song and the movie inside your head. I love the thought that each of us hearing Trentemøller's and DíSA's (lyrics and lead vocals) collaborative 'vision' are all seeing something different so after you see Bang's vision step away for a bit, push play and steep in your own imagination.
From LINER NOTES:
From LINER NOTES:
[Trentemøller's new album Dreamweaver is out via his own label In My Room on 9/13. It's a slightly more psychedelic iteration of the dark wave and dreampop he excels at, primed to release any dormant hallucinations you may be harboring.]
Sounds:
I absolutely adore the opening electronic ambiance, the glitchiness and static distortions. Once the orchestrations begin, pushed by wonderful subtle bass pushes, moving synths and DíSA's beautiful vocal prescence, ethereal but torn, a bit dark around the edges. At the point when the 'machine beat' drops in, the movement, an interweaving mix of synth swells, pulsations, bright and sometimes purposely muffled as a framework for the plaintive vocals is filmic personified. You can feel a glacial cold, an end to something and then... the sonic tensions, beats, erupt once again.
How we rise only to fade away
In this dream till last the night
It’s where you will find me
Most calm, can I be here [?]
Once more in your eyes
Stay close covering the stars
All we are dreaming in the dark
I love this song.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/trentemoller
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4O71i7ke5iIBX6RNSFoZbS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5FI-ATbiOxuM0Wpr_1juA
https://trentemoller.bandcamp.com/
https://www.trentemoller.com/
Copenhagen based musician Anders Trentemøller’s talent for heart wrenching melodic moments and exceptional productions, fused with his trademark sound somewhere between indie and electronic, has established him as one of the most respected and admired artists of this century, highlighted by the new, fourth studio album ‘Fixion’ which has just been released.
In 2006, following a line of 12” electronic EPs, Trentemøller released his groundbreaking debut album ‘The Last Resort’. High placements in several polls for best album of the year followed and established his name to a much broader audience.
In 2007 Trentemøller assembled his first full live band and since then played almost 300 shows around the world. Two more studio albums, ‘Into The Great Wide Yonder’ (2010) and ‘Lost’ (2013), artist-compilations (‘The Trentemøller Chronicles’ (2007), ‘Reworked/Remixed’ (2011)) and more releases like ‘Harbour Boat Trips’ (2009) or ‘Late Night Tales’ (2011) followed.
His fourth album ‘Fixion’ has been released once more on his own label imprint In My Room in September 2016.
With ‘Fixion’, Anders has crafted a logical successor to 2013’s ‘Lost’ - a record that in many ways managed to truly capture the visceral melodic experience of Trentemøller. In much the same manner that ‘Lost’ built on from the somber cinematic classic that was ‘Into The Great Wide Yonder’, ‘Fixion’ has embraced the Danish artist’s trademark melancholy and matured it into something uniquely atmospheric and darkly romantic.
Rather than attempting to completely reinvent himself, Anders has used his latest outing as an opportunity to highlight certain granular aspects of his signature sound and refine them into a much more organic - and at times perhaps more song-driven body of work. It’s a record that on first listen may seem less detailed but, as you’ll know by now, with Trentemøller, one should never be fooled by initial impressions. It’s the kind of record that will over time repeatedly unlock new intricacies and offer the listener an opportunity to understand the work differently upon each listen.
The album is still notably driven by the producer and multi- artist’s passion for experimentation and effortlessly succeeds in transcending a swathe of influences and unassuming genres - yet all the while holding true to Trentemøller’s unique, and sometimes challenging vernacular. From the cascading minimalist synth-scapes to driving electropunk, each and every track on ‘Fixion’ is bound together with a contemplative melodic complexity.
Upon the album release Trentemøller embarked on a live tour with over 50 shows so far. Taking him from Europe to the USA and Canda and finally for the first time to China, almost every show on the ‘Fixion’-tour sold out.
Right before the festival season with performances at many festivals throughout Europe, Trentemøller will release a brand new song ‘Hands Down’ which features jennylee from Warpaint on vocals.
Trentemøller’s newest project is the 2nd volume of the ‘Harbour Boat Trips’ Mix-CD series which will feature a new Trentemøller cover version of Neil Young’s ‘Transformer Man’ to be released in fall 2018.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4O71i7ke5iIBX6RNSFoZbS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5FI-ATbiOxuM0Wpr_1juA
https://trentemoller.bandcamp.com/
https://www.trentemoller.com/
Copenhagen based musician Anders Trentemøller’s talent for heart wrenching melodic moments and exceptional productions, fused with his trademark sound somewhere between indie and electronic, has established him as one of the most respected and admired artists of this century, highlighted by the new, fourth studio album ‘Fixion’ which has just been released.
In 2006, following a line of 12” electronic EPs, Trentemøller released his groundbreaking debut album ‘The Last Resort’. High placements in several polls for best album of the year followed and established his name to a much broader audience.
In 2007 Trentemøller assembled his first full live band and since then played almost 300 shows around the world. Two more studio albums, ‘Into The Great Wide Yonder’ (2010) and ‘Lost’ (2013), artist-compilations (‘The Trentemøller Chronicles’ (2007), ‘Reworked/Remixed’ (2011)) and more releases like ‘Harbour Boat Trips’ (2009) or ‘Late Night Tales’ (2011) followed.
His fourth album ‘Fixion’ has been released once more on his own label imprint In My Room in September 2016.
With ‘Fixion’, Anders has crafted a logical successor to 2013’s ‘Lost’ - a record that in many ways managed to truly capture the visceral melodic experience of Trentemøller. In much the same manner that ‘Lost’ built on from the somber cinematic classic that was ‘Into The Great Wide Yonder’, ‘Fixion’ has embraced the Danish artist’s trademark melancholy and matured it into something uniquely atmospheric and darkly romantic.
Rather than attempting to completely reinvent himself, Anders has used his latest outing as an opportunity to highlight certain granular aspects of his signature sound and refine them into a much more organic - and at times perhaps more song-driven body of work. It’s a record that on first listen may seem less detailed but, as you’ll know by now, with Trentemøller, one should never be fooled by initial impressions. It’s the kind of record that will over time repeatedly unlock new intricacies and offer the listener an opportunity to understand the work differently upon each listen.
The album is still notably driven by the producer and multi- artist’s passion for experimentation and effortlessly succeeds in transcending a swathe of influences and unassuming genres - yet all the while holding true to Trentemøller’s unique, and sometimes challenging vernacular. From the cascading minimalist synth-scapes to driving electropunk, each and every track on ‘Fixion’ is bound together with a contemplative melodic complexity.
Upon the album release Trentemøller embarked on a live tour with over 50 shows so far. Taking him from Europe to the USA and Canda and finally for the first time to China, almost every show on the ‘Fixion’-tour sold out.
Right before the festival season with performances at many festivals throughout Europe, Trentemøller will release a brand new song ‘Hands Down’ which features jennylee from Warpaint on vocals.
Trentemøller’s newest project is the 2nd volume of the ‘Harbour Boat Trips’ Mix-CD series which will feature a new Trentemøller cover version of Neil Young’s ‘Transformer Man’ to be released in fall 2018.
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