‘Desire’ is the sophomore full-length album by TLF Trio. On ‘Desire’, the group presents their signature, contemporised chamber music through their main instruments: piano, cello and electric guitar; now enhanced by a pervasive use of sampling and a distinct use of silence as musical material.

The album is an aesthetic voyage in a musical landscape of minimalism, classical music, free improvisation, left-field-electronica, and references to pop and house music. It blends into a sound that is experimental and unpredictable – yet at the same time strangely familiar and self-explanatory.

The album’s ten pieces balance an open-ended improvisational intimacy with a tight compositional intention. Each track's repetitiveness operates as a trickling plateau of layered sentiments of times and spaces through the sampling of different acoustic rooms, the playing in specific styles and the curated selection of sounds and instrumentations; a collage of memories and associations patched together to create new meanings.

CREDITS
Composed, performed and produced by TLF Trio
Track 2 composed by Aase Nielsen & TLF Trio
Recorded at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
Edited at Iconica Western, Los Angeles
Additional composition & recording at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin & The Wild Beast, California Institute of the Arts
Engineered and pre-mixed by Nature Boy
Mixed by Aase Nielsen
Mastered by ET Mastering
Lacquer cut by Hari Kishore at Kommunal Dubplate Service
Cover photography by Julia Sjölin
Graphic design by Atakan Kara

P & C 15 love 2025

Musicians featured on the album:
Piano and synthesizer by Jakob Littauer
Guitar, sampler and synthesizer by MK Velsorf
Cello, synthesizer and piano by Cæcilie Trier
Beat on track 5 by Claus Haxholm
Synthesizer on track 8 by Aase Nielsen
Violin on track 8 by Mona Tian
Viola on track 8 by Linnea Powell
Cello on track 8 by Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick