On the beach, a multitude of pebbles. Each pebble is unique even if they all look the same.
Sometimes we find one or two especially different, attracted by their originality (a drawing, a weird sculpture)...

The music area has never been so prolific. Welcome to Babylon! The communication mediums for unknown artist or unformatted bands have been multiplied a thousand times because of Internet. We would almost dare to think that this is the biggest place for free expression, but it seems (except for some small and blissful ones) that nowadays it’s not much more than a disenchanted field, well controlled by the medias and other mercantile accessories. We can easily find everything that we are looking for like in a HyperSuperMarket. Under a gratuitousness mood, but still ambiguous, this platform contributes to a disposable music and give free imagination to dubious marketing guys of record labels. This vector that wanted to be independent, free from any authority, based on the exchange and that wanted to produce on the fringe of a musical industry, is now transgressed by its own codes. The Majors accused it for all the evils responsible for the decline of their own industry, but in the other hand they don’t hesitate to use it displaying the disguise stamped INDEPENDENT. So how do we do now? They are baiting a public sunk by the too much information that flows around a hype, evidently ephemeral, skinning this vein ‘til blood, legislating with kicks of cheap but effectual marketing tools. They seize a scene born “underground”, crushing and mutilating the small indies that are suffocating, panting or fucking with Dorian Gray. A logical law for power? No, the counter-culture can’t perish, it will reborn from its ashes and will find new arms.
Bring forth the Guillotine ! *

In this Fake-Real third edition, CocoRosie offers an open window to its odd, mysterious, anamorphic, but also lyrical, graceful and tenderly moving world. We will dive into its celestial constellation, wander through the brilliant Independent American label Voodoo-EROS, run by Bianca (half CocoRosie) and her associate, the multi-function hermaphrodite, Militia Shimkovitz.

Reiko Underwater


If every angel’s terrible, then why do you welcome them ?**

* Silver Bullet
** CocoRosie, Terrible Angels, La Maison de Mon Rêve (2004)