Sister act CocoRosie performs live in the KEXP studio on 6/25/10. host: Cheryl Waters engineer: Kevin Suggs cameras: Jim Beckmann, Justin Wilmore & Dan Torok editing: Justin Wilmore
He draws near the periphery In disbelief on delivery Came child from the deep inferno Crusty head of dead volcano Heartless crow with brittle beak Wooden leg too schocked to speak Lilac dust of a woman's hair A wooden cross a paper prayer A stone where her body lay A stack of feathers a pile of hay A mushroom for an eye ball A mustache from the snow fall Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance Queens weave wigs with eyelash Trance music makes the fairies dance From the caves of snail shells Echoes the mutter medieval spells Mystery flows her wicked river Of thorn and blade and silver sliver Bending 'round the clover fields Their sapling stems don't break but yield Her pain inflicts no arguments Must learn to sway and un-arrange As earth she makes her final passage After humans long have ravaged Vanished with all maps for motion Upward angels last devotion One by one escort us home To leave the elementals free to roam To bathe in the last of ocean's foam To beach comb the nuclear debris Our plastic toys and our metal trees Once blew the pollen the feet of bees Now cry the stars when upon the earth Their gaze might rest a nostalgic burst A lament be heard through all the cosmos Of the dying planet with fallen foes
I wish COCOROSIE would release this performance! It is so much more moving than anything they have done in the studio! I really can't get into their studio albums, but their performances are absolutely stunning!!!
“I feel like an emotional jellyfish” it’s highly probable nobody has ever uttered that phrase before her, but it’s the perfect way to describe this experience.
@@clevermissfox you're telling me they come from a more evolved land that just happens to have the exact same make and model of a '92 Chevy Lumina and they just so happen to know how to change that specific alternator? TBH DOUBT IT.
So much poetry, so much magic, so much beauty... this version definitely gives me goosebumps, along with the live version of RIP Burn Face. Sierra, Bianca & Tez are true performers.
I remember reading that the older sister would sing and practice opera in the bathroom how they wrote tracks and recorded songs using whatever they could find.
I cried when I heard this the first time. The world looked strikingly different once I knew it was possible for something to be this beautiful. Suddenly, I was brave enough to live in a place where things could be as ugly as they'd always been. Determined to spend the rest of my life turning over stones until I find more. Fuck a wasted life.
I feel you man in 2019! I love them so much. If I won a million bucks I’d die absolutely die for them to play at my festival grounds. I feel so many people need Cocorosie right now.
this vid is one of the best things they've done. everything about is is totally perfect and shows how freaking talented they are. and how bianca suddenly 4:15 grabs the clarinet and totaly NAILS it..!
Rarely there is an artist that sounds this heavenly... What's even more strange is that their live material is way better than their album stuff. At least for me. I love you all so much!!
I feel like these ladies are so completely open emotionally and creatively that they give songs names like Fairy Paradise without the slightest bit of irony. That's pretty fucking cool if you ask me.
Why there should be irony in the first place? Of course they would give their song the fitting title...cause that's their song? Art is for emotional and creative freedom... No offfence, but your comment is slightly cringe.
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 have you considered that they may be speaking from a context within a more mainstream music industry influenced upbringing? They like it, and for a good reason, that's all that matters really.
There not everyone's taste and at times can be quite difficult to listen too, but I think lyrically they are fantastic and creatively there isn't anything like them and I really respect that... Werewolf is another song by them and in my eyes it's a modern masterpiece...
Week 4 of 2023, Still grateful covid allowed me to work from home. Have this one added to my playlist. Today decided to put it on repeat. Once again thx to KEXP for recording yet another stunning performance. So many great bands sharing their works. This one is my love for the week for sure.
This song takes all the pain out of me... But at the end of the song I feel empty so I press the repeat button. And I've been doing it for the last 9 years or so. Some kind of dark love.
I am a total music lover...Of all genre's...And this totally blows me away every single time!! Absolutely stunning..Mesmerising...WOW we do live in a fantastic world! just look n listen to this...gives us all hope! We are all in it together..Let's make the most of it! :)
Way better then the recorded version. It’s also on another level watching them preform in this manner... each of them is so invested that their expressions alone make me question my life.
I'm a kindergarten teacher freaking the fuck out because I went back to work last month and a bunch of my kids are sick and singing along to this and a few other artists has been really helping me cope.
I'm a musician since 48year... but i always like special music.. deep...real... This might not be used for make people dance in a discothek.... But i found it a time ago her on youtube...and bought the cd minutes later on ebay... great... hope they are doing well. love& peace
Bianca sounds nothing like Bjork. She may have the most unique voice since Bjork, but is in a different world. Cocorosie are awesome and have opened my mind to music like no one in recent years.
2023 and still vibing here ? Anyone else ?
Sorry for my traste in músic :(
I am 😂
2024, vibing still
2024 🎉
2024 and Oh gawd YES.
2024 and still here showing my peeps this greatness
this is great in so many levels.. i mean, harp? toys? beat-boxing? bjork voice? opera voice? clarinet? yo???
so underrated
It's a masterpiece
I just wish this version was on Spotify! 😢
@@caitlynnp9507 bro!! Yes. There's been days I wake up in the morning and on my way ti work put this song on CZcams and then the entire performance.
Agreed
@@caitlynnp9507 now we don't even have the studio version on spotify :(
Anyone from 2024? 👇🏼
opera singing and breakbeat beatboxing with a harp, clarinet and rap tier lyricism woaaa
Literally, this has been in my watch later for too fucking long
@@anja1789 hi just want to remind you this exists! 🖤
@@Becausing hahahahha awwww thank you!! 💙
@@anja1789 0
@@rachelainsworth4584 (◕‿◕✿)
I've been enjoying this for 13 years. 2024 and I'm still blown away every time.
I've been listening to this same song for about 5 years now and I'm still floored by how absolutely beautiful it is. I'm in tears.
i love the song lemonade
Same. Still coming back to this currently. Masterpiece.
Girl I felt that
I hope its been 7 years now
Idk. Her voice sounds bad... Like a 6 year old that's having a stroke. The harp player sounds much better
CocoRosie have their own genre, I call it "dark toybox" & I love it.
They sound a lot like Joanna Newsom
Gothic folk
Perfect!
I believe they're Freak Folk but I like Dark Toybox.
i think it's wankoff
this song opened my 3rd ear
anarchitect420 420 blaze it
posser...
Mr. White IKR! LOL
Love the anagram darling.
@@thedaveastator7939
What anagram?
He draws near the periphery
In disbelief on delivery
Came child from the deep inferno
Crusty head of dead volcano
Heartless crow with brittle beak
Wooden leg too schocked to speak
Lilac dust of a woman's hair
A wooden cross a paper prayer
A stone where her body lay
A stack of feathers a pile of hay
A mushroom for an eye ball
A mustache from the snow fall
Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance
Queens weave wigs with eyelash
Trance music makes the fairies dance
From the caves of snail shells
Echoes the mutter medieval spells
Mystery flows her wicked river
Of thorn and blade and silver sliver
Bending 'round the clover fields
Their sapling stems don't break but yield
Her pain inflicts no arguments
Must learn to sway and un-arrange
As earth she makes her final passage
After humans long have ravaged
Vanished with all maps for motion
Upward angels last devotion
One by one escort us home
To leave the elementals free to roam
To bathe in the last of ocean's foam
To beach comb the nuclear debris
Our plastic toys and our metal trees
Once blew the pollen the feet of bees
Now cry the stars when upon the earth
Their gaze might rest a nostalgic burst
A lament be heard through all the cosmos
Of the dying planet with fallen foes
*God help me
I wish COCOROSIE would release this performance! It is so much more moving than anything they have done in the studio! I really can't get into their studio albums, but their performances are absolutely stunning!!!
Wow already 12 years? And we still here, I love this masterpiece ❤
Yeaaah
“I feel like an emotional jellyfish” it’s highly probable nobody has ever uttered that phrase before her, but it’s the perfect way to describe this experience.
*Trance music makes the fairies dance*
Sib ___ this comment underrated haha
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I like this version better than the album version.
No way. Album version is way more unique
+1 for this version!
I LIKE THE LIVE VERSION IN A PARK OF Mexico City!
i like this version more too 😍
The Lemonade version of the live on KEXP is also better than the album.
a beat boxer and an opera singer...who knew..
+Amber Turnbull CocoRosie
Amber Turnbull and don't forget the cackling witch playing the clarinet.
Hi
@@gaiat3484 joppy?
This live cover is 1000times more intimate then the final album version.
This song brings out a fantasy in everyone.
Like The harpist 's voice
Becky StyleJornal it seems to have everything I wouldn't like, yet it fits together beautifuly. And yes I agree!
Becky StyleJornal She was an opera singer.
I arrived back here, again, somehow.
To have that Angels voice touch my soul, until times decree she be heard again.
I first listened to this while shrooming, and I knew that Cocorosie knew all of the secrets to life.
Do they know how to replace an alternator on a '92 Chevy Lumina?
@@chim-choo-ree lmao
@@chim-choo-ree honestly, I doubt it.
@@TheRonster9319honestly I don’t doubt it. These two sisters are from a land much more evolved than this
@@clevermissfox you're telling me they come from a more evolved land that just happens to have the exact same make and model of a '92 Chevy Lumina and they just so happen to know how to change that specific alternator? TBH DOUBT IT.
So much poetry, so much magic, so much beauty... this version definitely gives me goosebumps, along with the live version of RIP Burn Face. Sierra, Bianca & Tez are true performers.
I find this one to be the best song I ever heard this century.
I agree
Yes, but the original song, is less magical than this version. Live is perfect :3
Dalia Pinto I don't think I've ever had that many goosebumps in 6 minutes
Did you listen the original version? I think isn't incredible than this.DØPΛMINE
Dalia Pinto I did, but luckily I listened to this version first so that magical effect was even bigger for me
2024 and I love this song now and forever!
I've never heard anything quite like this. What an amazing, genuinely unique sound!
I remember reading that the older sister would sing and practice opera in the bathroom how they wrote tracks and recorded songs using whatever they could find.
Holy shit, this is beyond twisted, Its not average, Its like underground twisted dope fairytale style kind of thing, what a imprevisible talent
Earths massacre by humans mind controlled elementals left to fix and subject to dna mutations by our doings esp nuclear
listen to "werewolf" lolol
When music finds people 🧨🧨🧨
Who still loving this in 2025?
🤔 2025? ... Ok, Back to the future 😅🎉✌️
PANICKED LOL
I will return in 2025
Will love this forever and ever
When she breaks out that opera voice it just stirs my very soul.
I cried when I heard this the first time. The world looked strikingly different once I knew it was possible for something to be this beautiful. Suddenly, I was brave enough to live in a place where things could be as ugly as they'd always been. Determined to spend the rest of my life turning over stones until I find more. Fuck a wasted life.
beautiful
I feel you man in 2019! I love them so much. If I won a million bucks I’d die absolutely die for them to play at my festival grounds. I feel so many people need Cocorosie right now.
wow, your comment could be a poem.
May you uncover many treasures
Gay
this vid is one of the best things they've done. everything about is is totally perfect and shows how freaking talented they are. and how bianca suddenly 4:15 grabs the clarinet and totaly NAILS it..!
Rarely there is an artist that sounds this heavenly... What's even more strange is that their live material is way better than their album stuff. At least for me. I love you all so much!!
I feel like these ladies are so completely open emotionally and creatively that they give songs names like Fairy Paradise without the slightest bit of irony. That's pretty fucking cool if you ask me.
Why there should be irony in the first place? Of course they would give their song the fitting title...cause that's their song? Art is for emotional and creative freedom... No offfence, but your comment is slightly cringe.
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 have you considered that they may be speaking from a context within a more mainstream music industry influenced upbringing? They like it, and for a good reason, that's all that matters really.
There not everyone's taste and at times can be quite difficult to listen too, but I think lyrically they are fantastic and creatively there isn't anything like them and I really respect that... Werewolf is another song by them and in my eyes it's a modern masterpiece...
I'm so amazed by this I can't even say anything else.
still amazing in 2021 and then 2022
Sierra is the beauty to Bianca's incredible stories, I will always love them as an all time favorite forever. So beautiful and unique.
the singer looks like a tiger. and its beautiful. her voice is like a real fairy. out of all hip hop pop songs, this is the best.
My fiend Corrie Anne showed me this video and it changed my life. RIP Corrie Anne
Seriously CZcams? How long did you think you could hide this from my all-hearing ears!
Absolutely stunning piece. 12 years after, I keep listening
One of the rarest performances and Oh So Beautiful...even after all these years✨️
Yes
When we die, I think we all will remember this song as we go to wherever or whatever you believe in
I love that 💕
True Musician, period.
I love it. I love how intense it gets, how it grabs you and holds you. Not many songs can do it. For me anyway.
still amazing in 2019
Week 4 of 2023, Still grateful covid allowed me to work from home. Have this one added to my playlist. Today decided to put it on repeat.
Once again thx to KEXP for recording yet another stunning performance.
So many great bands sharing their works.
This one is my love for the week for sure.
I just subscribed to yr channel. You got good taste! 🛼
They inspire me for my poems. I love them!
me too c:
Yeah definitely, real piles of shit
Honestly, at least 1,000 of these views are me.
Yea baby
Carla K same here
Same
Im proud to say both of my Parents are over 50 and bc of me they know who Cocorosie is.
You and me both Sista! i love this tune but specifically this version of this song..I am addicted!!even 4 or 5 years later!
Her opera voice really is beautiful
This version is the single best thing I've ever heard from them... Next, next, next level.
This song takes all the pain out of me...
But at the end of the song I feel empty so I press the repeat button. And I've been doing it for the last 9 years or so.
Some kind of dark love.
I am a total music lover...Of all genre's...And this totally blows me away every single time!! Absolutely stunning..Mesmerising...WOW we do live in a fantastic world! just look n listen to this...gives us all hope! We are all in it together..Let's make the most of it! :)
" I feel like an emotional jellyfish right now " yeah totally! me too
Me! Every freaking time !!!!!
how did I just now stumble upon this live version? f***ing beautiful honestly.
Surreal beauty to my ears
I cryed so much listening to this
7 years later and I absolutely still love it...
I love watching Sierra sing. You can tell she feels it in her heart.
2022 y seguimos escuchando está maravillosa obra.
Way better then the recorded version. It’s also on another level watching them preform in this manner... each of them is so invested that their expressions alone make me question my life.
Listen. I've had a really rough week. I just found this song again and started crying when that opera segment hit again.
11 years late, here I am discovering this...experience.
If you can't appreciate how beautiful this is then you're a broken human being.
4browsing was thinking the same thing. You have to be broken to appreciate this.
@@harf849 yes.
@@harf849 her voice is obnoxious i came her cos my dad likes this shit... shes a pile of shit lmao, shes untalented as shit
@@DrivenAgony Let me guess... You listen to post Malone and lil peep and those pieces of trash? Yeah no wonder you don't like this
Live is so much better than the studio recording
+mrdeclansir i know right? i wasnt a big fan of the original, but this one damn
I like to think that's those millions views are a few people listening to this song over and over again in different times.
❤🔌 ❤Specially this one 2023 amazing.. ))))))))))
Favorite version of this song by far!! Gives me goosebumps every time!!
This is single most diverse expression of talent I've ever seen. So expressive!
I've only just discovered CocoRosie. I just adored them on first listen! Fairy Paradise followed by Gallows my favourites but love them all.
This soothes my Coronavirus anxiety
I'm a kindergarten teacher freaking the fuck out because I went back to work last month and a bunch of my kids are sick and singing along to this and a few other artists has been really helping me cope.
@@barbara-holley Awesome.
ORGANIC SOUNDS. So moving.
Aghhh, I'm crying! Oh my gosh, beautiful!
The best version of this song, it's absolute perfection
I'm a musician since 48year...
but i always like special music..
deep...real...
This might not be used for make people dance in a discothek....
But i found it a time ago her on youtube...and bought the cd minutes later on ebay...
great...
hope they are doing well.
love& peace
my favourites! I love their music so much!
This made my whole body have goosebumps... truly amazed.
This warmed my heart so much. It's so beautiful.
after hundreds of times hearing to it still love it ❤
I love this song so much I can't stop listening to it
Bianca sounds nothing like Bjork. She may have the most unique voice since Bjork, but is in a different world. Cocorosie are awesome and have opened my mind to music like no one in recent years.
yes.
She sounds similar to Joanna Newsom, I think? If I spelled that right..
very proto-grimes, though... but as a huge bjork fan i will say they have a similar voice cadence
THIS IS ART
Love this song since the first second I heard it, absolutely fantastic sounds
I just love the sound of Coco
*CHILLS*
this performance is just great
Such talent, touches my soul, sheds a tear whilst quivering with goosebumps. So happy they are creating and exist.
had an existential moment listening / watching......this is the highest of art!
Sierra is so gad damn amazing...
Me encantaaaaan♡ por fin pude encontrarlos nuevamente 😍❤...
Yo también te iba cómo 3 años sin escucharlos❤️
speechless..how wonderful..
Everytime I hear their work I'm always impressed at how inventive they are as writers , arrangers , and musicians .
Dios mio, siempre que oigo esto se me pone la piel de gallina cuando canta Sierra
wow.. this was wonderful.. gotah here more.
This makes me feel nourished and well. So in love with this group and their amazing ability!
I can't stop playing this! Over and over and over again - wonderful! x
One of the best thing in the world
i will never be over this performance. every time i revisit, i'm like "this is just so beautiful"
I love her voice so much. So unique.