SONG OF THE DAY

“By Your Side” by CocoRosie (La Maison de Mon Reve, Touch & Go Records, 2004).

WHERE I HEARD IT

From this most recent season of So You Think You Can Dance.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– La maison de mon rêve (English: The house of my dream) is the first album by CocoRosie.

– Bianca and Sierra Casady had first decided on making just a few copies of the album, intending to distribute it solely to some friends. However, they were persuaded by Touch & Go records to release it under their label.

– CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca “Coco” and Sierra “Rosie” Casady.

– The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years.

– Their music has been called “freak folk”, and incorporates elements of pop, blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop.

– CocoRosie was originally a duo, with Sierra singing, playing the guitar, piano and harp, and Bianca singing and manipulating various children’s toys, electronic and percussion instruments, as well as other exotic noisemakers. They subsequently added various backing musicians at live shows, usually a bassist, synth player and beatboxer.

– They have been a very active touring group, playing across Europe, the United States, and elsewhere.

– They have released four full-length albums: La maison de mon rêve (2004), Noah’s Ark (2005), The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (2007), and Grey Oceans (2010).

– Sierra Casady was born in Iowa, and Bianca was born in Hawaii. The girls lived with their mother, Christina Chalmers, an artist and singer of Native American and Syrian ancestry who grew up in Iowa. They moved to new towns almost every year, living in Hawaii, California, New Mexico, and Arizona.

– Because their mother believed that the girls would learn more doing art in the “real world” than in school, neither sister finished high school.

– Over the course of two months, the women spent nearly every waking hour in Sierra’s bathroom, chosen as the most acoustic and isolated room in the apartment. Soon, they had completed their debut album La maison de mon rêve.

– Since the creation of their first album, the Casady sisters have been virtually inseparable.

– CocoRosie signed with Sub Pop records in 2010.

– CocoRosie was named the 16th most influential artist of the decade by betterPropaganda in 2009.