Exclusive: Kotki Dwa Unveil Latest Video Update

Kotki Dwa recently announced that they are receiving support from the National Trust to produce their new aum ‘Staycations’, which is expected in June.

In the run up to the release, the band have unveiled a video update, which can be watched exclusively at DIY.

The band have also given us the following insight into the clip itself.

We’ve been really enjoying putting our new album together. We decided on it’s title over a year ago — Staycations — a word that felt close to some of the lyrical content coming through the new songs. It’s a word that carries mixed connotations; of wonderful holidaying, but also of basically NOT going on holiday, not indulging. Idealism and compromise. We liked it, so we kept it.

With the title in place we thought it would be interesting to team up with someone other than a record label to make the album and put it out, in search of some more unusual resources and opportunities. So we thought of the National Trust; an institution that owns some genuine staycation-destinations.

We worked up a big proposal, requesting access to National Trust properties to record our album, asking to make use of the acoustics in their spaces, as well as literally borrowing pianos and harpsichords. We also proposed to use National Trust places for all of the record’s artwork and music videos, documenting the process so that people could see how interesting and eccentric these places actually are.

To our mild surprise they were completely into it. We’ve been working closely with them ever since, as if they’re our label, working out how to distribute the album in National Trust shops, and how we can do a launch show at one of their London properties etc.

The video below shows Alex at a couple of the London properties — Sutton House in Hackney and Fenton House in West London. Every vocal on the album has been recorded in a different National Trust place, some have been outdoors and so the mics pick up birds, wind and other stuff. We’ve also experimented with amping up our synths and recording them with microphones in odd environments, rather than going straight through a wire from synth to computer, which seems to give them some extra character.

Staycations will be ready at the end of June, and we’ll be releasing videos along the way to share our progress. More soon!