Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O

Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O evolved from My Midnight Creeps and Madrugada, taking ingredients from Dr. John the (Nite) Tripper-style voodoo and Mali-blues (Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen) to forge the idiosyncratic rock-sound captured on their 2011 self-titled debut for EMI, which met with both considerable critical acclaim and sold-out shows for the band in their homeland.

With EMI being swallowed by Universal Music, KKKMO signed with experimental UK label House of Mythologhy for the second album "Land or water". Inspired by not only the likes of Earth, Grinderman, Talk Talk and Gato Barbieri yet existing firmly in its own melancholic headspace, is a record very different from the band’s debut. A merly solo project from Alex with orbiting help from Bez, and Anders in addition to Erland Dahlen and Jo Berger Myhre playing on two tracks. Nocturnal rock songs like the expansive ‘Saleph’ and ‘Going Forth by Day’ – inspired by the same-named art exhibition by Bill Viola (Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, 2002) – interweave with moments of spectral ambience such as the beautifully brooding ‘Europa’, creating a distinctly cinematic vision – richly diverse without losing the primal charge that’s guided the band since their inception.
-Jimmy Martin