Rainbowarriors CocoRosie return to Taos Junkyard Witchez tour comes to Daleee
RAINBOWARRIORS COCOROSIE are returning to Taos at the Daleee at KTAOS on Saturday, April 13. They were last here back during the second installment of the infamous Meow Wolf three-day music festival known as the Vortex in 2019.
The sister duo are renowned for their captivating poetry and enduring harmonies, paired with a blend of lo-fi toy experimentation, classical elements, and boundary-pushing rhythms. A CocoRosie song — for instance, “Fairy Paradise” — can have within it harps, breakbeat beatboxing, clarinet, Brothers’ Grimm-type lyricism and operatic singing.
Sierra Casady, the Rosie of CocoRosie, brings her background as a classically-trained opera singer and stage actor, while Bianca Casady, the Coco of CocoRosie, contributes her talents as a published poet and accomplished visual artist. Coco’s vocal style is heavily characterized by an over-thetop indie cursive upon cursive singing, as though you’ve stacked the vocals of Lorde and Halsey on top of Macy Gray for good measure. That weird child-like (on a side note, she has used one of those Fisher-Price type noise toys as a live instrument) vocal fry does tend to go hand-in-hand with the imagistic lyrics of their songs such as in “Smoky Taboo.”
“I like to look up wild at an infinite sky / Twinkling with diamonds / It’s true I get depressed in fancy hotel rooms / Undressed with nothing to flaunt but my loneliness.”
Rosie’s vocals usually come in like some majestic deus ex machina, like a pegasus trained to sing beautiful arias.
Collaboratively, the sisters employ theatrical techniques such as movement and character exploration along with high fashion and contemporary art to produce radically-subversive and highly-developed conceptual art. CocoRosie utilizes irreverence, indicated by their marker mustaches or haphazardly placed faux facial hair, and play to speak up for human rights and question unjust societal values.