Twelve years after the release of their last album, the Norwegian band Kings of Convenience released their album Peace or Love in June 2021. The single Rocky Trail is the duo's new masterpiece with its heartwarming melody.

Rocky Trail transports us to a joyful space, with cleverly chosen and intricate acoustic guitars. The content behind the song shows existential dilemmas and talks about emotional issues in a rather subtle way.
The Kings of Convenience video, produced by Valentina Attalla, is set in the home/studio of the artist Clara Cebrian in Madrid. The project of the Spanish architect Pia Mendaro Lamberri is a rehabilitation of an old warehouse called Topo’s Shed. The production explores the studio spaces and finds a new way to capture all the art of the loft.

The duo, formed by Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek, will visit Spain next October. They will be on the 18th at the Lope de Vega Theater in Madrid, on the 19th at La Rambleta de València, and on the 21st at the L'Auditori de Barcelona.

Kings of Convenience. Our Saturday music video. (Official Music Video). METALOCUS MUSIC PROJECT.

CREDITS.-
Production.- Oxígeno 
Producer.- Valentina Attalla
Director.- Détour
Location.- Clara Cebrian
Steadicam.- Andrés López-Heree
1st. A.C.- Enrique Muñoz de Castro
Loader.- Carmina Herranz
GIG Recording.- Estrella Fernández de Gamboa
GIG Photographer.- Fer Valenti
Production Assistant.- Miki Olabarro
Color Grading.- María Nualart
Graphic Design.- Pablo Marfá
Cast.- Eirik Glambek Boe, Erlend Oye, Clara Cebrían, Miguel Estades, Valentina Attalla.

Lyrics.-
One more time
Let’s say you give me one more time
One last chance to speak again
Let’s start from what we left unsaid
and here we go
Brave enough to go climbing a wall 
so high that no sunlight is seen through winter 
Brave enough to go traveling around the world 
without money to eat or sleep for

Seeing what you can do with your hands and feet 
I feel there is no question about it: 
Almost anything you can imagine
Almost any goal
You will get there

I wish you had been more of a talker
Not the kind that is just flapping his lips 
And not the kind that looks away 
But learns through his eyes when somebody is watching
Maybe you could have told me 
There was a world on your shoulders that needed lifting
Maybe I could have helped you with that
The weight is not easy I know
But you never know.

I thought your shoes were good 
I thought they would take you to the end of any road
I thought your back was strong 
I should have carried you to the top of the rocky I trail
I should have carried you to the top of the rocky trail

How am I to know about your problems and your load 
I am blind to what you show 
I am waiting to be told
I never ask

How am I to know about your problems and your load 
I am blind to what you show 
I am waiting to be told
I never ask
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Pía Mendaro (Madrid, 1991) graduated as an architect at Superior Technical School of Architecture Madrid, ETSAM (2009-2016). She’s currently working freelance and is a member of Endemico, a young architecture studio. She’s impatient with architecture’s timing, hence designing (and self-producing) furniture and studying botany and gardening in the meantime. For the last three years she has completed various refurbishments in Madrid, designed the furniture for a children's library in Monterrey (Mexico), participated as a teacher assistant in studio class (Polytechnic School Madrid), and led the direction (and management) of Barbecho space, focused on useful design (2017-19). At present, Pia has several works and a PhD thesis in progress.

Architecture awards: Schindler Architecture Award 2013/2014 for mobility / accessibility solutions (2013). Obtaining Honors in the Final Degree Project, ETSAM (2016). Finalist of the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, (2016). Others: Junior designer for The Architecture Gallery, TAG, Madrid (2017), participation in the collective exhibition Mujer, Objeto (“Woman, Object”), Madrid (2018).
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Published on: July 10, 2021
Cite: "A new way to capture the moment with art. Rocky Trail by Kings of Convenience" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/a-new-way-capture-moment-art-rocky-trail-kings-convenience> ISSN 1139-6415
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