Kiiōtō

The musical project of Lou Rhodes, Mercury-nominated singer/songwriter and founder member of highly acclaimed top 30 duo Lamb, and multi-platinum songwriter and keyboardist Rohan Heath, (founder member of Urban Cookie Collective) have together recorded an album that is both richly instinctive and inquisitive, infused with a transporting spirit of ongoing exploration and discovery. Lou and Rohan connected in lockdown, a friendship grew and they became inseparable. Then emerged the nascent seed of Kiiōtō’s debut album, As Dust We Rise, but it was on a trip to Louisiana that the songs began to take more solid form. "It's a record that doesn't shy away from the big themes of life“, Lou says, “we kind of rolled up our sleeves on this one". Written and partially recorded in Lou & Rohan’s home studios in London and Wilshire, the songs were then taken to producer Simon Byrt’s studio. Kiiōtō debut stands as an intuitive meld of shared histories, united in the desire to explore fresh stories and places. “These are the songs we’ve always needed to write “ says Rohan. “Every melody, lyric and chord we’d ever sang or played to this point was part of the journey to Kiiōtō to this album: As Dust We Rise".