CocoRosie

Yeah, we’ve mainly been working just the two of us, trying to go back to a calm sound and calm process, to see where that would lead us. And in the end, this made us go back to the beginning, after having tried many different processes over the last years.

I think it’s just where we were in our creative cycle. In these past years we travelled to many different studios, experimenting with technological processes. We found that really exciting, but at some point we had enough of it, and wanted to focus more on poetry and stories and less on technology. We got together on a small farm with very limited equipment, using very specific few instruments.

Good. But you tend to move on to the next thing, so naturally we’re already making new music. We're in a whole other musical world!

Yeah. We just came from Norway, where we were collaborating on a project with theater director Robert Wilson. It’s our third production together, and it’s about Nordic and Icelandic mythology. We’re writing a whole different kind of music for that as well, so we’re coordinating, at the same time, different collaborations and projects.

We’re less focused on the visual and more on the performance, I would say, which comes partly from working in theater. At the same time we are building a set with whatever things we find in each venue. So we’re doing a kind of site-specific installation every night.

Mostly it’s just our own creations. I’ve travelled many times to Hawaii recently and I actually got a lot of our costume wear from there. It’s kind of very fancy, trying to copy the late ‘40s. We’re cutting down sports clothes with really glamorous things. The makeup and hair are somehow the same that we were wearing when we were 12 and 13 years old. Back to the early ‘90s again!

Well, we don’t have cellphones. I am using the phone of my tour manager right now. We’re against this obsession with the phone that I think is turning everyone into zombies. So we’re just generally not plugged in. We’re not really consuming the internet, and before that we weren't watching television. We know we’re aliens in this sense, but it feels more and more important for us to take this stand as it becomes such an automatic part in everyone's human experience. I guess it’s not long until everyone have internet chipped into their bodies. And I’m sure it’s gonna become a bigger and bigger political issue to take a certain stand against.

I think it depends on how you relate to it. I’m not saying that the internet is evil. I think it’s that boundary where it starts to merge with the human body that is too much. The internet as a resource tool is not what is disturbing us.

We don’t have the fear of becoming too mainstream because I think no matter how hard we tried, we could never succeed with that. So we don’t try to go away from it. Actually we try to go towards it! I can’t think of any fears right now. At some point I’m just afraid of being on stage - the really basic fears.

We really love a rap group from the ‘90s called Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. They rap and sing at the same time, and they have a unique sense of harmony. They are pretty much our favorite band and what we play when we go to work. Other than that, we haven't really been inspired by music from the last 20 years, I would say.