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
Paper Boat
Cocoon Lyrics
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We'll need wood, and we will need stones
For a brand-new house
To leave, leave, forever leave
The Everlasting Land
We'll cross the seas, and we will brave storms
To leave, leave, forever leave
The Everlasting Land
I killed bugs, and I killed a deer
And a dinosaur
To leave, leave, forever leave
The Everlasting Land
Leave, leave, forever leave
The Everlasting Land
The lyrics of Cocoon’s “Paper Boat” is about escaping from a certain place, also known as “The Everlasting Land.” The singer sings about leaving this land forever and using a paper boat to do so. The song implies that this land is not a happy place to be in or maybe a place where the singer feels trapped. The lyrics do not specifically mention what the problem or issue is, but it leaves the listeners to come up with their own interpretation. The song suggests that the singer is willing to take on great risks, such as crossing the sea and braving storms to leave this place. The lyrics also portray a sense of resourcefulness because the singer will need wood and stones to build a new home.
The lyrics also become a little darker towards the end where the singer mentions killing bugs, a deer, and a dinosaur. The animals in the lyrics represent different things; the bugs represent small problems, the deer represents something bigger, and the dinosaur represents an obstacle so huge that it seems impossible to overcome. All of these things were sacrificed to leave the Everlasting Land behind for good.
Line by Line Meaning
We'll need wood, and we will need stones
We require the basic materials to build a new house.
For a brand-new house
We need to construct a new dwelling place for ourselves.
To leave, leave, forever leave
We desire to abandon our current location for good.
The Everlasting Land
The place we currently reside, which we wish to escape from permanently.
We'll cross the seas, and we will brave storms
We will navigate across vast bodies of water and confront turbulent weather.
With a paper boat
We will embark on this perilous journey using only a fragile paper vessel.
I killed bugs, and I killed a deer
I have committed acts of violence against various creatures.
And a dinosaur
I have slain even the most ancient and colossal of beasts.
Leave, leave, forever leave
We reiterate our desire to escape perpetually.
The Everlasting Land
We continue to emphasize our longing to depart from our current abode.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SOPHIANE PRODUCTIONS
Written by: MARC DAUMAIL, MORGANE IMBEAUD
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