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
Owls
Cocoon Lyrics
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I'm her favourite game
But I don't know the rules
I'm a piece on chess
And I always lose
She's a queen, she's a queen
And her anger grows
She's a queen, she's a queen
And I'm breeding owls
She lost a treasure there ...treasure there
In the forest's heart...forest's heart
She lost a treasure there...treasure there
She can't remember what
refrain
I've been hunting bears...hunting bears
In the forest's heart...In the forest's heart
I found a long black hair...a long black hair
She just took it back !
refrain
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The song "Owls" by Cocoon is a haunting and mysterious track that tells a story of unrequited love and power dynamics. The lyrics suggest that the singer is someone who is in love with a woman who holds a lot of power and control over him. He compares himself to a game piece on a chessboard, always losing and never quite understanding the rules of the game. The woman is described as a queen, and her anger is said to grow as the singer continues to struggle in his attempts to earn her favor.
The line "And I'm breeding owls" is a particularly interesting one, as it suggests that the singer is becoming more and more obsessed with this woman, to the point where he is seeing owls everywhere as a kind of symbol of her influence over him. The chorus repeats this idea, with the woman's anger growing as the owls multiply.
The verses also hint at a deeper mystery, as the woman seems to have lost something precious in the heart of the forest, and the singer has been hunting bears and finding clues. It's unclear what this treasure might be, but the sense of longing and mystery in the lyrics adds to the song's eerie atmosphere.
Line by Line Meaning
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Introductory/Count-in Line
I'm her favourite game
I am the person whom she enjoys playing with the most
But I don't know the rules
However, I am unaware of the instructions or guidelines to follow in this game
I'm a piece on chess
I am like a pawn on the chess board
And I always lose
And I always end up losing
She's a queen, she's a queen
She is the dominant one, she is the queen
And her anger grows
And her fury or annoyance gradually increases
She's a queen, she's a queen
She is the dominant one, she is the queen
And I'm breeding owls
And I am producing owls, which could be a metaphor for problems or challenges
She lost a treasure there ...treasure there
She misplaced a valuable item in that location
In the forest's heart...forest's heart
Deep within the woods
She lost a treasure there...treasure there
She misplaced a valuable item in that location
She can't remember what
She is unable to recollect what she lost
I've been hunting bears...hunting bears
I have been searching for and confronting difficult problems like bears
In the forest's heart...In the forest's heart
Deep within the woods
I found a long black hair...a long black hair
I discovered a lengthy, dark strand of hair
She just took it back !
She simply retrieved it from me!
She's a queen, she's a queen
She is the dominant one, she is the queen
And her anger grows
And her fury or annoyance gradually increases
She's a queen, she's a queen
She is the dominant one, she is the queen
And I'm breeding owls
And I am producing owls, which could be a metaphor for problems or challenges
Contributed by Julian L. Suggest a correction in the comments below.