With their new music, KKKMO ventures deeper into minimalism and improvisation. The absence of guitar makes way for droning synthesizers, offbeat rhythms, resulting in a spontaneous feel while maintaining their signature cinematic style. This time the more stripped-down minimalistic sound echos artist like Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre, Patrick Crowley, Enya and Tangerine in a humble way.

The new KKKMO album "Concordia " was recorded deep in the pastoral and desolate landscape of South Devon, UK — a place where pirates and shady characters have long hidden from the rest of the world. It’s where you go if you mess up in London or society and want nobody to know your whereabouts. The villagers are suspicious of strangers and keep to themselves. They have a history of building fake lighthouses to lure ships onto the rocks, plundering the wrecks, and killing the crews who tried to reach shore. There is an ever-present sense of outlaw spirit and anarchy — a place beyond the reach of law, where the landscape itself conceals everyone and everything within it.

The local pub, The Pig Nose Inn — run by an old roadie from the seventies, together with his wife and children — embodied the same spirit of retreat from the world. A favoritt by local musicians like Damon Albarn and Kate Bush before she moved to Yorkshire. Around its heavy wooden table, where legend has it an Italian sailor was crucified and stabbed to death in the 16th century, the band gathered and absorbed the stories from the local scoundrels.

In the midst of this stands a modern day Stnoehenge or a temple for the atheist if you like made of concrete and glass, perched on a hill overlooking the rolling pastoral fields and surrounded by monterey pines. The Secular Retreat is designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and was created for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project with the original though of being a place to create and record music. KKKMO stayed here for seven days, arranging their equipment in a half-circle around the majestic fireplace in the massive big hall.

Editing, additional work and mixing was done at Villa de la Mer in Marseille, a cabin in Hvaler and
Villa Stensberg in Oslo.

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