낭트 출신의 코코모(KO KO MO)는 폭발적인 카리스마가 넘치는 듀오로, 워렌(기타, 보컬)과 K20(드럼, 백 보컬)으로 편성되어 있다.
무대에서 이들은 에너지 넘치는 라이브를 선보이며 ‘레드 제플린’, ‘화이트 스트라입스’, ‘더 블랙 키스’의 계보를 이어나간다. 워렌은 종종 ‘로버트 플랜트’를 떠오르게 하는 중성적인 보컬과, ‘지미 페이지’와 ‘지미 헨드릭스’를 연상시키는 기타연주를 갖고 있다. 또한 K20이 내뿜는 에너지와 쇼맨쉽은 ‘존 본햄’과 ‘더 후’의 ‘키스 문’을 떠오르게 한다.
코코모는 Solidays, Les Escales, Le Sakifo, Les Jeunes, Charrues, Blues sur Seine, Blues Around Zinc와 같은 다수의 페스티벌에서, 그리고 Stereolux, VIP, Le Chabada, Le Fuzz Yon, Le Run Ar Puns, Zinc Passengers, Vaureal Forum, Pan Piper 등의 콘서트홀에서 공연을 했다. 또한 국제적으로는 중국, 인도, 인도네시아, 한국 (피에르 A. 블랑과 협업), 스위스, 스페인에서 공연하였고, 변하지 않는 열정과 즐거움을 공연에 담아내왔다.
이들의 정규 1집 [Technicolor Life]은 콘서트장에서 선보이는 불꽃 같은 에너지를 그대로 담고 있다. ‘오아시스’, ’악틱 몽키스’, ‘코럴’ 등의 아티스트가 작업한 스튜디오 모터 뮤지엄의 출신의 아트 디렉터 앨 그로브즈가 사운드 엔지니어를 전담했다. 이 앨범은 Modulor와 Musicast를 통해 유통되었다.
Wedance. It’s a statement and a warning. The duo spends a great majority of their time on stage living up to the name. Often wearing outfits that might be described, with the greatest amount of love possible, as retirement-community-inspired, Wedance, is a singularly difficult band to describe.
The duo met during a chance encounter on the street with Webo noticing Wegi’s unique fashion sense, recognising a kindred spirit and demanding he starts a band with her. With songs about everyday life, a penchant for banging on a single cymbal in between dance breaks, dissonant vocals, dissonant guitars, and an accompanying drum/electronic track played (at least up until a few years ago) from an old portable CD player, it’s hard to talk about this band without any musically-seasoned listener narrowing their eyes sceptically and possibly thinking they didn’t know you as well as they thought they did. But against all odds, these features come together to form a glorious confluence of a-tonal, spasmodic pop bliss that can feel at once anthemic and, of course, make you move in whatever weirdo way these unique compositions compel you. Their music plays like a pied piper anthem of indie strangeness, beckoning all to join in on the alt-bacchanal.
Which is the point. The band’s stated mission is to “help people dance through their boundaries (whatever they maybe) and to experience life fully on the other side”. They hope to give courage to real outsiders to show their true selves.
Trying to collect all the Wedance recordings is a feat in itself as the duo usually only carry a few copies of the plethora of their self recorded and self burned EPs around to their performances. This idea of a musical scavenger hunt, trying to piece together the entirety of an artist’s body of work in the age of digital and easily transmittable everything, greatly appeals to their fans. Some greater value is placed on the struggle and search as opposed to the ease and convenience of a simple download.
Halfway into any Wedance set their name finally presents itself with its correct intonation. There’s not enough proudly odd stuff in this world, and so a Wedance set seems to speak to that feeling and acts then as a challenge and invitation; Wedance, do you? Certainly, many of their avid fans, many of whom are rabid devotees to the weirdness Wedance conjures, have answered their call.
With performances at Fuji Rock, Primavera Sound, Nuits Sonores, Bug Sounds, Baybeats and more under their belts already the invitation is open to all; come along and dance with us and find out a little bit more about yourself as you do…
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