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My 8th grade art teacher was…eccentric.   Yeah, that’s probably a good way of describing her.  While all the other teachers were wearing pant suits (women) or dockers (men…well, and the female softball coach), she basically dressed like a gypsy.  Except she wasn’t a gypsy.  She was a 40 year-old blonde art teacher, who really didn’t teach as much as she handed out supplies and then supervised.   She would rant and rave about world events, break out in song in a moment’s notice, and see nothing but potential in anything we did.   I suppose it’s cliche to have an art teacher be a little out there, but you don’t think of or notice cliches in the 8th grade.  You just think your art teacher is both weird and awesome.

Weird and awesome.  Two words that describe CocoRosie.  CocoRosie is a quirky “freak folk” band made up of sisters Bianca “Coco” and Sierra “Rosie” Casady.   Raised in Iowa, the two sisters eventually found themselves living in Paris as adults.  As the story goes, one day in 2003 they both decided to record some music.  The room in the apartment with the best acoustics was the bathroom.  So they spent nearly two months in the bathroom recording song after song never intending them to go anywhere.   They handed out their recordings to their friends as gifts which eventually fell into the hands of the independent label “Touch and Go Records”.  Touch and Go immediately signed them and the rest is history.  Since then, CocoRosie has released three albums and have promised a fourth sometime in 2010.  Definitely something to look for.

In the meantime, check out the download below.  It’s a cover of Damien Jurado’s Ohio;  it’s free for the downloading, and it is awesome.  And weird.

OFFICIAL SITE:
http://www.cocorosieland.com

DOWNLOADS:
Track: Ohio – CocoRosie

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