1. Cocoon is a two-piece… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least six bands called Cocoon:
1. Cocoon is a two-piece French band formed in 2006 by Mark Daumail (born 1984, composition, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, ukelele, banjo, beatbox, etc.) and Morgane Imbeaud (born 1987, vocal harmonies, keyboards, arrangements).
"I wanted it to be a male-female duet. A duo like the White Stripes are in rock — we wanted to be the equivalent in folk music," Daumail says. Their songs are entirely sung in English. "French artists singing in English isn't something new. It goes back to groups like Les Thugs and Syd Matters," he remarks.
Daumail says he's always been interested in folk music: "Basically, Cocoon's musical inspiration goes all the way from groups like The Pentangle and Fairport Convention right through to the 'new folk' movement that surfaced around the beginning of 2000 with artists like CocoRosie, Devendra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens."
In 2006, the pop / folk duet released its first EP, entitled I Hate Birds, and won the 2006 edition of the Big Jama regional contest. The following year, Cocoon was signed onto the French indie label Sober & Gentle. The band released a second EP, From Panda Mountains, followed by their first album, entitled My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash. The group won the CQFD music contest organized by the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles and performed in the new talent section of the rock music festivals Le Printemps de Bourges and Les Eurockéennes de Belfort.
Official site: http://www.myspace.com/listentococoon or http://www.frompandamountains.com/
2. Cocoon is a solo project by one of the founding members of the French group Clair Obscur which was one of the first groups in the 80's in France to work across music, visual arts, dance and theatre. Clair Obscur was one of the very few bands of the French cold wave/industrial scene which became known abroad with its records released by the British labels Cathexis, All the Madmen and NER (compilation From Torture to Conscience with Current 93, In the Nursery, Death in June, etc).
Christophe Demarthe has been working for many years at the frontier of sound and visual arts. He has created sound architectures for theatre, dance, cinema, visual arts, radio... mainly working with the drama producer Bruno Lajara (501 Blues, Ne Pas, Fuites, Après Coups, Léon le Nul...) and with Jean Couturier for radio dramas on France Culture. He has written music for the cinema and for television (France 2, Canal Plus).
In 2004 he created Cocoon, releasing his debut album on the French label Optical Sound. Much more than a mere sound object based on an album concept, Cocoon can be read as a global artistic project close to the performance. It is an audio set accompanied by videos and asking for an active participation of the public, banishing the passive listening of laptoppers. The stage disposition creates a real contrast with the characteristic immobility of electronic music concerts, and definitively places itself at the crossing point of image, sound and live show, for a moving interdisciplinarity.
Since its creation in 2004, Cocoon has participated in the festivals Nowa Fabryka (Bytom, Poland), Emergences/Villette Numérique (Paris), Nuit Blanche (Paris), Emo-Son (Bourges), Salon Light (Paris)... He has been reviewed in Libération, on Arte-TV.com, in the magazines Mouvement, Télérama, The Wire, on France Culture... His second album, More Violent Days Are to Come (OS.012) (Optical Sound), has been nominated for the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 2006/2007.
3. A Czech band from Kolín.
4. An Alternative/Emocore - Band from Czech republic.
5. An electronic/ambient duo from the USA.
6. A Romanian rapper from Piatra Neamt
I Will Be Gone
Cocoon Lyrics
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Under a thousand dead bodies I found your armour
With the blade of my sword
Stuck in your heart.
Oh if I,
Oh if I were to die would you say that we're tight?
Oh come on. Come on.
Oh I could give you seas when you fight for lakes.
By the time you stand and walk again,
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone.
Oh you gave, oh you gave me a map to find a way out,
And you gave me a mirror to see who I became.
Oh I could give you seas when you fight for lakes.
By the time you stand and walk again,
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone.
Oh I could give you seas when you fight for lakes.
By the time you find out what it takes,
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone,
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone.
The lyrics to Cocoon's "I Will Be Gone" paint a vivid picture of a complex emotional dynamic between two people. The first verse speaks of finding the armor of another under a thousand dead bodies, with the blade of a sword stuck in their heart. This can be interpreted in multiple ways, but the most likely interpretation is that there has been some kind of battle or conflict between the two people, and the singer has emerged victorious. However, despite the brutality of the situation, there is still a sense of connection between the two, as evidenced by the line "With the blade of my sword stuck in your heart." This suggests that the singer is not necessarily triumphing over an enemy, but rather over someone with whom they have a deeply personal relationship.
The second verse is more introspective, with the singer contemplating their own mortality and the impact that their death would have on the other person. The line "Oh if I were to die would you say that we're tight?" suggests that the singer is uncertain of the other person's feelings towards them, or perhaps has reason to doubt their loyalty. The chorus is repeated twice, with the lines "Oh I could give you seas when you fight for lakes. By the time you stand and walk again, I will be gone." This is a poignant evocation of the deep love and care the singer feels for the other person, even as they recognize that they will not be able to stick around forever.
Overall, "I Will Be Gone" is a powerful meditation on the complexities of human relationships, and the ways in which love and violence can intersect.
Line by Line Meaning
Oh I found,
I discovered something of importance or value
Under a thousand dead bodies I found your armour
I found your armor amidst the chaos of many dead bodies
With the blade of my sword
Using my sword as a weapon
Stuck in your heart.
Penetrating your heart with my sword
Oh if I,
If only
Oh if I were to die would you say that we're tight?
If I were to pass away, would you acknowledge our close relationship?
Oh come on. Come on.
Encouragement or urging
Oh I could give you seas when you fight for lakes.
I can offer you grandeur when you struggle for something small.
By the time you stand and walk again,
During the duration it takes for you to recover and become active again
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone.
I will have departed, disappeared, or moved on.
Oh you gave, oh you gave me a map to find a way out,
You bestowed upon me guidance to escape.
And you gave me a mirror to see who I became.
Through a mirror, you showed me my transformed self
By the time you find out what it takes,
During the stretch it takes you to ascertain what is necessary
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone,
I will have departed, disappeared, or moved on.
I will be gone, I will be gone, I will be gone.
I will have departed, disappeared, or moved on.
Contributed by Adeline N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.