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
Microwave
Cocoon Lyrics
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You said you would be out for while
But now it’s been a year you should be back home
Micro-waving meals-for-one
The more that I sleep the more I get tired
It’s time to wake up
I owe it all to you
I owe it all to you
Cigarettes taste like the last time we kissed
Or was it the last time you asked me to quit ?
Children build a snowman in the garden
As the radio plays your favourite song
It’s time to wake up
It’s time to wake up
I owe it all to you
I owe it all to you
The lyrics of Cocoon's song "Microwave" present a poignant reflection on the absence of a loved one and the way that absence can consume and tire out the singer. The song opens with the singer waiting for someone who said they would be gone for a while, but seemingly never returned. Instead, the singer finds themselves alone, microwaving meals-for-one and growing increasingly exhausted. The repetition of the phrase "It's time to wake up" can be both a call to action and a realization that the singer has been drifting through life, stuck in a kind of limbo waiting for the return of the person they miss.
The second verse is filled with images that evoke memories of the missing person. Cigarettes taste like the last time they kissed, and the children playing outside build a snowman in the garden that might remind the singer of past winter memories with the missing loved one. The radio playing their favorite song is a bittersweet reminder of the good times shared in the past. The chorus repeats the idea that the singer owes it all to the missing person, perhaps hinting at some kind of shared destiny or the fact that the singer's life has been forever changed by this absence.
Overall, the lyrics of "Microwave" are simple but emotionally resonant. They capture the way that an absence can take over a person's life and leave them feeling stuck, while also hinting at the power of memory and the way that even small reminders can bring back powerful and complex emotions.
Line by Line Meaning
You said you would be out for while
You promised you'd be gone only for a little while.
But now it's been a year you should be back home
It's been much longer than expected, you should come back by now.
Microwaving meals-for-one
I'm living alone and resorting to convenient, single-serve microwave meals.
The more that I sleep the more I get tired
Sleeping more only makes me more exhausted.
It's time to wake up
I need to snap out of this state and face reality.
I owe it all to you
It's all because of you that I'm in this situation.
Cigarettes taste like the last time we kissed
The taste of cigarettes reminds me of our last kiss together.
Or was it the last time you asked me to quit?
Or maybe it was when you asked me to stop smoking.
Children build a snowman in the garden
The world continues moving on, even as I feel stuck in this same place.
As the radio plays your favorite song
The sweet memories of us come flooding back as I listen to your favorite song.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SOPHIANE PRODUCTIONS
Written by: Marc Daumail, Morgane Imbeaud
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