Video: Trentemoller’s ‘Sycamore Feeling’

Video: Trentemoller’s ‘Sycamore Feeling’

15 April, 2010 | 6.38AM

• Written by: Kornel Koch
• Filed under: Videos: trentemøller

No one does moody quite like Trentemoller, and his new single ‘Sycamore Feeling’ is no exception. Featuring the haunting vocals of the Danish singer Marie Fisker, the song is a dusky hybrid of acoustic guitar and percussion with subtle electronic treatments; it sounds a little like Mazzy Star in dub.

The accompanying video, directed by the Danish video artist Jesper Just, suits the music perfectly. It was shot on location in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a ghost town where an underground mine fire has been burning since 1962, forcing out all but a stubborn handful of its residents.

The camera lingers on the details of the desolation: smoke curls up from cracks in buckled rural roads, and icycles hang from the eaves of an abandoned house. Accentuating the pervasive sense of strangeness is the fact that the lead character is actually played by two different actresses, Diana Wagner and the New York drag queen Princess Diandra.

The lead single from his forthcoming album ‘The Great Wide Yonder’, ‘Sycamore Feeling’ is out now, featuring additional remixes from Mofus and Trentemoller himself; a separate EP, ‘Sycamore Feeling - The Club Remixes’, features floor-ready reworks from Gui Boratto and Thomas Schumacher.

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