COCOROSIE [27:02:08] BAT POO AND WATER BALLET CocoRosie is not your everyday musical duo. In fact, pretty much everything about them is a little bit left-of-field. Guess that explains why they’ve been referred to as “the luminously lovely indie folk-tronic duo from New York.” Sounding mildly distracted, Bianca Casady drawls her hello down the phoneline. If it’s possible, she somehow sounds quirky over the phone. Perhaps it’s because after listening to their music, it becomes hard to imagine an everyday person creating such ethereal sounds. Thing is, Bianca (vocals and percussion) and her sister Sierra Casady (vocals and guitar) have been playing together for years, perfecting their take on that strange and beautiful music. Anyway, after interview dramas involving last minute phone number changes, all questions have to be crammed into a fast talking seven minutes. Flying over the basics – the upcoming tour is the focus. “Yes, we are doing a tour - coming in early March.” Presumably it is to play their latest release ‘The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn’? “Yeah, but we’re really just touring the tour if you know what I mean. But that is the record that we will be representing. We have actually toured Australia before. We did a little tour, played a few shows with our friend Antony and then continued on. “It was great. It was wildly hot and I walked through a park with no shoes on and stepped on a lot of bat poop. I also had a great time in the ocean doing some water ballet with Antony.” After listening to their album, it’s hard to grasp how it will sound live. Bianca explains, “We’re going through a lot of changes right now so I’m sure it will be different. You can always expect a visual element, you can expect something from every album and then also something experimental that could go really well or it could totally bomb.” As sisters, the girls spent time apart in their younger years before coming together to play. As is often the case, musical influences can become intertwined when you write music together. Bianca agrees but says that even before that “we found that we liked the same stuff. Mostly we found we didn’t like listening to music hardly at all especially when we first started. We liked listening to dance music and classical. We were really narrow in our spectrum and we’re pretty much the same now. Music gets on our nerves but we are constantly making music so I don’t know what that’s all about.” Majella McMahon Coco Rosie play the Zoo on Wednesday March 5. ‘The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn’ is out locally via Inertia. back to top ^

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