Danish producer and musician Anders Trentemøller was live in Kraków at Hype Part as part of his MEMORIA TOUR to promote his latest eponymous album. Delivering an exhilarating performance, Trentemøller made sure the audience will remember this concert for more than a while. Collaborating Norbert Burkowski (no.photos) was there to do his part and capture fleeting moments of this memorable evening. Trentemøller’s latest album is something to keep in mind next time you’re looking for a musical soundscape.
All photos by Norbert Burkowski (no.Photos) for Kraków Music and Follow The Step
While many artists follow a pattern of invention and reinvention, Anders’ arc has been a series of points along the same curve, playing the long game, with each release representing the next chapter in a constantly evolving series. Contrasts and paradoxes are often explored, ultimately acknowledged in the title of his last album, Obverse. Other themes may revolve around reminiscence and remembrance, while eschewing nostalgia. His most recent release, Memoria, digs in deeper, and honors the five canons of storytelling, which also include inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and pronuntiatio. Themes of impermanence, as they relate to anything from mortality to relationships, run deep. Videos are an important part of any Trentemøller release, and Memoria’s companions both compliment it, and leave plenty of space for self-reflection and interpretation.
Now, with Memoria, Trentemøller has released his longest album yet. Clocking in at 14 songs, it features somber, introspective pieces, motor- ik, dream pop, motorik, noise rock, as well as electronic pop. He continues to work with familiar subjects of light and dark, turbulence and serenity, piercing chill and comforting warmth, clearly inspired by the inherent antipodal elements of the Nordic environment he calls home, but pushes much further into this familiar territory, while simultaneously investigating new themes.
