A multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Trentemøller started his career in the late 1990s with different indie-rock outfits before releasing a run of EPs and his electric-oriented debut album in 2006, entitled The Last Resort. Deservedly topping several end-of-year polls, it served as a springboard for international recognition via festivals in the United States and all over Europe in the subsequent years.
Since assembling his first full live band, in 2007, Trentemøller has embarked on multiple world tours, playing nearly 500 shows, regularly selling out venues. The three studio albums that followed, Into The Great Wide Yonder (2010), Lost (2013), and Fixion (2016), came out on his own imprint, In My Room, and expanded his sound considerably, blending textures of tension, release and endless experimentation with the multifarious, darkly romantic motifs his music is characterized by.
Trentemøller has also earned up a stellar live reputation, with shows that build on the music in unique and surprising ways. His 2019 album, Obverse, saw him combine with an impressive range of renowned female vocalists and was released alongside a series of short films made by the artist himself, something that represents his artistic, multimedia approach to content creation.
Memoria is Trentemøller’s lengthiest and most significant project to date. With an experimental, introspective approach, it blends genres like dream pop, noise rock and motorik with themes of light and dark as well as somber, turbulent and ultimately comforting motifs. It can be experienced in full here.
As Qwest TV’s latest Guest Curator, Trentemøller’s personal playlist is as varied as you’d expect for a musician who works so freely with so many influences. It features Chet Baker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis alongside Paco de Lucia, Stravinsky, Steve Reich and more.
Rowan Standish Hayes
