CocoRosie - Fairy Paradise (Live on KEXP)

Sister act CocoRosie performs live in the KEXP studio on 6/25/10.
host: Cheryl Waters
engineer: Kevin Suggs
cameras: Jim Beckmann, Justin Wilmore & Dan Torok
editing: Justin Wilmore

[@gerhardwasowski]

this is great in so many levels.. i mean, harp? toys? beat-boxing? bjork voice? opera voice? clarinet? yo??? so underrated

[@nihilisticpuppy3799]

It's a masterpiece

[@caitlynnp9507]

I just wish this version was on Spotify! 😢

[@VAL3NTIN3]

@@caitlynnp9507 bro!! Yes. There's been days I wake up in the morning and on my way ti work put this song on KZbin and then the entire performance.

[@JustJonny17]

Agreed

[@malfunctionnnn]

@@caitlynnp9507 now we don't even have the studio version on spotify :(

[@TheBlank89]

I've been enjoying this for 13 years. 2024 and I'm still blown away every time.

[@emmyandboo]

Same !!!

[@Jimmy0Dean0Booy]

2024 and still here showing my peeps this greatness

[@billieo388]

Wish this version was on Spotify! It is absolutely incredible

[@whisperofwisps93]

2023 and still vibing here ? Anyone else ?

[@cesarmariscal4791]

Sorry for my traste in músic :(

[@DropofLemon]

I am 😂

[@PiotrTalalay]

2024, vibing still

[@damiangallegos652]

2024 🎉

[@2Chickaboom2]

2024 and Oh gawd YES.

[@toriburges7096]

I've been listening to this same song for about 5 years now and I'm still floored by how absolutely beautiful it is. I'm in tears.

[@unicornlove4365]

i love the song lemonade

[@kingghidorah1212]

Same. Still coming back to this currently. Masterpiece.

[@gavin6128]

Girl I felt that

[@lil-dexxy6475]

I hope its been 7 years now

[@michaelrubino2018]

Idk. Her voice sounds bad... Like a 6 year old that's having a stroke. The harp player sounds much better

[@fredrickpotocnik8156]

I wish COCOROSIE would release this performance! It is so much more moving than anything they have done in the studio! I really can't get into their studio albums, but their performances are absolutely stunning!!!

[@olivermatich2818]

opera singing and breakbeat beatboxing with a harp, clarinet and rap tier lyricism woaaa

[@anja1789]

Literally, this has been in my watch later for too fucking long

[@Becausing]

@@anja1789 hi just want to remind you this exists! 🖤

[@anja1789]

@@Becausing hahahahha awwww thank you!! 💙

[@rachelainsworth4584]

@@anja1789 0

[@Becausing]

@@rachelainsworth4584 (◕‿◕✿)

[@charliez077]

this vid is one of the best things they've done. everything about is is totally perfect and shows how freaking talented they are. and how bianca suddenly 4:15 grabs the clarinet and totaly NAILS it..!

[@jakepainter9058]

My fiend Corrie Anne showed me this video and it changed my life. RIP Corrie Anne

[@molliesorensen]

❤ 🩵🙏🏽

[@SongBillong]

I've never heard anything quite like this. What an amazing, genuinely unique sound!

[@CreativeUsernameEh]

“I feel like an emotional jellyfish” it’s highly probable nobody has ever uttered that phrase before her, but it’s the perfect way to describe this experience.

[@flipclone]

i can assure you, that if I had just sat in that recording booth with them and experienced that, the next group of words that could escape my lips would also be a phrase that nobody has ever uttered.

[@normacecilia]

Wow already 12 years? And we still here, I love this masterpiece ❤

[@Djiiou]

Yeaaah

[@Raymund-Swales]

I arrived back here, again, somehow. To have that Angels voice touch my soul, until times decree she be heard again.

[@Coloradiohead]

this song opened my 3rd ear

[@msck6114]

anarchitect420 420 blaze it

[@danielagustinperezgordon7411]

posser...

[@Babylon2060]

Mr. White IKR! LOL

[@thedaveastator7939]

Love the anagram darling.

[@kedabro1957]

@@thedaveastator7939 What anagram?

[@ambergrant699]

2024 and I love this song now and forever!

[@cordofcare]

So much poetry, so much magic, so much beauty... this version definitely gives me goosebumps, along with the live version of RIP Burn Face. Sierra, Bianca & Tez are true performers.

[@ashleyross9139]

I like this version better than the album version.

[@CyranoForever101]

No way. Album version is way more unique

[@GarbanzoJournalist]

+1 for this version!

[@jodillmann2043]

I LIKE THE LIVE VERSION IN A PARK OF Mexico City!

[@cheerubebayonettaholopaine2638]

i like this version more too 😍

[@LincolnPassosHoje]

The Lemonade version of the live on KEXP is also better than the album.

[@Martyk1968]

CocoRosie have their own genre, I call it "dark toybox" & I love it.

[@Melzarion]

They sound a lot like Joanna Newsom

[@missmorvern]

Gothic folk

[@ABrookeByTheTree]

Perfect!

[@rayhamilton6923]

I believe they're Freak Folk but I like Dark Toybox.

[@unitabber1411]

i think it's wankoff

[@yeahiamsure]

This song brings out a fantasy in everyone.

[@Hansel-8888]

Like The harpist 's voice

[@yeahiamsure]

Becky StyleJornal it seems to have everything I wouldn't like, yet it fits together beautifuly. And yes I agree!

[@Bug2019]

Becky StyleJornal She was an opera singer.

[@alvarexone]

I first listened to this while shrooming, and I knew that Cocorosie knew all of the secrets to life.

[@chim-choo-ree]

Do they know how to replace an alternator on a '92 Chevy Lumina?

[@SilentechoJ11]

@@chim-choo-ree lmao

[@TheRonster9319]

@@chim-choo-ree honestly, I doubt it.

[@clevermissfox]

@@TheRonster9319honestly I don’t doubt it. These two sisters are from a land much more evolved than this

[@TheRonster9319]

@@clevermissfox you're telling me they come from a more evolved land that just happens to have the exact same make and model of a '92 Chevy Lumina and they just so happen to know how to change that specific alternator? TBH DOUBT IT.

[@jackoliverx]

This live cover is 1000times more intimate then the final album version.

[@MirceaStoia]

Still giving me the chills in 2025

[@raulruiz3563]

Yessssssssssss!!! Wish one day I could see this version live. ❤❤❤

[@belissimel4439]

I remember reading that the older sister would sing and practice opera in the bathroom how they wrote tracks and recorded songs using whatever they could find.

[@Miaabuilds]

Anyone from 2024? 👇🏼

[@KB-lp7ik]

Right here

[@martibatti]

❤

[@gymaher]

Yeeeears later and still up there with my number 1 songs! The rawness

[@Caseysflicks]

Ohh yes

[@whocarescamera3000]

yep love this song

[@bijanmostoufi2815]

I cried when I heard this the first time. The world looked strikingly different once I knew it was possible for something to be this beautiful. Suddenly, I was brave enough to live in a place where things could be as ugly as they'd always been. Determined to spend the rest of my life turning over stones until I find more. Fuck a wasted life.

[@marssilver]

beautiful

[@Jimmy0Dean0Booy]

I feel you man in 2019! I love them so much. If I won a million bucks I’d die absolutely die for them to play at my festival grounds. I feel so many people need Cocorosie right now.

[@coyote_in_the_city]

wow, your comment could be a poem.

[@NObodDEE]

May you uncover many treasures

[@HorkPorkler]

Gay

[@Audioslaaf]

I love it. I love how intense it gets, how it grabs you and holds you. Not many songs can do it. For me anyway.

[@1979mag]

Time flies ...

[@ericwalz3465]

When we die, I think we all will remember this song as we go to wherever or whatever you believe in

[@emmyandboo]

I love that 💕

[@AmberTurnbull]

a beat boxer and an opera singer...who knew..

[@GreenTornado]

+Amber Turnbull CocoRosie

[@quinnlewis2003]

Amber Turnbull and don't forget the cackling witch playing the clarinet.

[@gaiat3484]

Hi

[@quinnlewis2003]

@@gaiat3484 joppy?

[@maxIimI101]

Opera singer-harper is absolutely stunning, I know this track about 10 years and still love it

[@kategeraghty2591]

Favorite version of this song by far!! Gives me goosebumps every time!!

[@shagunkapoor8954]

One of the rarest performances and Oh So Beautiful...even after all these years✨️

[@molliesorensen]

Yes

[@Obtuse94]

Who still loving this in 2025?

[@tamerajewel]

PANICKED LOL

[@lisarowalt5537]

I will return in 2025

[@davidchojnowski8475]

Will love this forever and ever

[@KB-lp7ik]

I will no doubt 😊

[@KB-lp7ik]

@@lisarowalt5537ditto

[@GloomBloomGroove]

They inspire me for my poems. I love them!

[@foolishbail]

me too c:

[@GloomBloomGroove]

Yeah definitely, real piles of shit

[@tdottim]

I feel like these ladies are so completely open emotionally and creatively that they give songs names like Fairy Paradise without the slightest bit of irony. That's pretty fucking cool if you ask me.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Why there should be irony in the first place? Of course they would give their song the fitting title...cause that's their song? Art is for emotional and creative freedom... No offfence, but your comment is slightly cringe.

[@SilentechoJ11]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 have you considered that they may be speaking from a context within a more mainstream music industry influenced upbringing? They like it, and for a good reason, that's all that matters really.

[@toymarchofficial6878]

Sierra is the beauty to Bianca's incredible stories, I will always love them as an all time favorite forever. So beautiful and unique.

[@nelsar1]

I find this one to be the best song I ever heard this century.

[@themisslookhate]

I agree

[@dd.gibbons]

Yes, but the original song, is less magical than this version. Live is perfect :3

[@atyaiatin]

Dalia Pinto I don't think I've ever had that many goosebumps in 6 minutes

[@dd.gibbons]

Did you listen the original version? I think isn't incredible than this.DØPΛMINE

[@atyaiatin]

Dalia Pinto I did, but luckily I listened to this version first so that magical effect was even bigger for me

[@Spicer24]

Rarely there is an artist that sounds this heavenly... What's even more strange is that their live material is way better than their album stuff. At least for me. I love you all so much!!

[@olgabele7940]

When music finds people 🧨🧨🧨

[@cjk319]

Honestly, at least 1,000 of these views are me.

[@megangreen2370]

Yea baby

[@lisacraven6828]

Carla K same here

[@dresdenleo]

Same

[@Unherd_Of]

Im proud to say both of my Parents are over 50 and bc of me they know who Cocorosie is.

[@denasewell]

You and me both Sista! i love this tune but specifically this version of this song..I am addicted!!even 4 or 5 years later!

[@firkinfright5168]

Week 4 of 2023, Still grateful covid allowed me to work from home. Have this one added to my playlist. Today decided to put it on repeat. Once again thx to KEXP for recording yet another stunning performance. So many great bands sharing their works. This one is my love for the week for sure.

[@user-hd2to7lv8y]

I just subscribed to yr channel. You got good taste! 🛼

[@hcchris1]

I like to think that's those millions views are a few people listening to this song over and over again in different times.

[@adlholguiness7616]

Holy shit, this is beyond twisted, Its not average, Its like underground twisted dope fairytale style kind of thing, what a imprevisible talent

[@juliehealingleaf6211]

Earths massacre by humans mind controlled elementals left to fix and subject to dna mutations by our doings esp nuclear

[@siastone93]

listen to "werewolf" lolol

[@6jason6mehl6]

This version is the single best thing I've ever heard from them... Next, next, next level.

[@jwallaby7895]

2:06 - 2:30 brings me to a completely different heavenly dimension full of dancing mushrooms, fairies, and various plants weeping tears of joy. First time you hear it you arent expecting such flowing beautiful convergence between the beat and her harp and her ethereal singing. The juxtaposition just works absolute magic on me.

[@miriamcastillo1268]

Absolutely stunning piece. 12 years after, I keep listening

[@briggette9021]

Angelic is her voice.

[@flowereia]

I am a total music lover...Of all genre's...And this totally blows me away every single time!! Absolutely stunning..Mesmerising...WOW we do live in a fantastic world! just look n listen to this...gives us all hope! We are all in it together..Let's make the most of it! :)

[@michaelbutler2053]

Magic

[@neizvestniydrug]

Best version! So beautiful! The scariest song I’ve heard in life. These two ladies are geniuses!

[@nicepandebono8150]

11 years late, here I am discovering this...experience.

[@akoyaahime]

I'm so amazed by this I can't even say anything else.

[@beriloaquam]

Surreal beauty to my ears

[@8irdhous3]

Starting 2025 with Cocorosie vibes.

[@spazmobot]

When she breaks out that opera voice it just stirs my very soul.

[@goadken]

This is one of those performances on KZbin that I like to have friends hear and make them wait until half way through to see what they are hearing. It always floors everyone.

[@73kdt]

There not everyone's taste and at times can be quite difficult to listen too, but I think lyrically they are fantastic and creatively there isn't anything like them and I really respect that... Werewolf is another song by them and in my eyes it's a modern masterpiece...

[@liadaan2016]

I've only just discovered CocoRosie. I just adored them on first listen! Fairy Paradise followed by Gallows my favourites but love them all.

[@wo3fullyin3pt0678]

If you can't appreciate how beautiful this is then you're a broken human being.

[@harf849]

4browsing was thinking the same thing. You have to be broken to appreciate this.

[@lollic307]

@@harf849 yes.

[@DrivenAgony]

@@harf849 her voice is obnoxious i came her cos my dad likes this shit... shes a pile of shit lmao, shes untalented as shit

[@AdelaTomankova]

@@DrivenAgony Let me guess... You listen to post Malone and lil peep and those pieces of trash? Yeah no wonder you don't like this

[@mariod8405]

Still a Masterpiece

[@christinayah]

how did I just now stumble upon this live version? f***ing beautiful honestly.

[@LightGreen5013]

This is single most diverse expression of talent I've ever seen. So expressive!

[@mogalisious]

the singer looks like a tiger. and its beautiful. her voice is like a real fairy. out of all hip hop pop songs, this is the best.

[@CatSorcery]

I'm so in love with bianca.

[@mwiltzius1]

Way better then the recorded version. It’s also on another level watching them preform in this manner... each of them is so invested that their expressions alone make me question my life.

[@gerrittenberkdeboer7763]

I'm a musician since 48year... but i always like special music.. deep...real... This might not be used for make people dance in a discothek.... But i found it a time ago her on youtube...and bought the cd minutes later on ebay... great... hope they are doing well. love& peace

[@reinderboersma9572]

Seriously KZbin? How long did you think you could hide this from my all-hearing ears!

[@Magnus12k]

this piece can not get old or forgotten, everyone has a specific place and time they heard it the first time and yes it brings one back to whatever moment they have heard it first. Thank you Coco and Rosie.

[@KevBounce]

I love watching Sierra sing. You can tell she feels it in her heart.

[@flannman2010]

2025 and still a performance that i love coming back to. The beauty of it... every time.

[@MrAmbice]

This song takes all the pain out of me... But at the end of the song I feel empty so I press the repeat button. And I've been doing it for the last 9 years or so. Some kind of dark love.

[@KaitenKenbu]

Wow the contrast between the sisters. I've definitely developed a differenst perspective after occasionaly watching this over 14 years. Talent was spent very differently between them.

[@sib___7491]

*Trance music makes the fairies dance*

[@deathdealer2443]

Sib ___ this comment underrated haha

[@Fairymetalparadise]

✨✨

[@blessedly4499]

Damn, its been 13 years since this masterpiece was uploaded here, we're getting old! ❤

[@filurenanna]

this performance is just great

[@duantorruellas716]

Everytime I hear their work I'm always impressed at how inventive they are as writers , arrangers , and musicians .

[@mrdeclansir]

Live is so much better than the studio recording

[@kneifascc8461]

+mrdeclansir i know right? i wasnt a big fan of the original, but this one damn

[@edvardthomson7264]

Yep... Good music never ages. Brilliant

[@arieyhanz]

True Musician, period.

[@YodasPapa]

Awww sheeeeiiit!!! Discovering stuff like this makes me excited for all the awesome, unimaginable music people are gonna make in the future

[@YodasPapa]

Oh my fuck its so good

[@Shepfax]

Listen. I've had a really rough week. I just found this song again and started crying when that opera segment hit again.

[@uutarn]

14 years too late. I don't know what I just heard... But it was utterly beautiful.

[@SeanCothrine1]

wow.. this was wonderful.. gotah here more.

[@stevewilson7174]

I can't stop watching and listening to this. It sends you to another world.

[@tinytuesday3237]

I cryed so much listening to this

[@punkyfizzgig]

Love this still so much 💜🩷❤️

[@roguepinky3_4s]

ORGANIC SOUNDS. So moving.

[@sweetleaf9668]

What a grand find CocoRosie was, these so many years ago. Tres bien! Je t'ami CocoRosie! ❤️

[@CosmicConsciousness999]

Bianca sounds nothing like Bjork. She may have the most unique voice since Bjork, but is in a different world. Cocorosie are awesome and have opened my mind to music like no one in recent years.

[@madelinespooner1008]

yes.

[@joellespring8508]

She sounds similar to Joanna Newsom, I think? If I spelled that right..

[@mlovell643]

very proto-grimes, though... but as a huge bjork fan i will say they have a similar voice cadence

[@markaranda2048]

Had the pleasure of seeing them in Monterey last year. I had never heard of them but I was immediately entranced.

[@jasonformann4980]

The best version of this song, it's absolute perfection

[@gymaher]

Yeeeears later and still up there with my number 1 songs! The rawness

[@AM23.]

Her opera voice really is beautiful

[@BrianWilliamsPioneer15]

wow, they're very creative with the various different sounds they use in this song.....Great Job!!!

[@flochmie6165]

simply awsome

[@Caliscris]

This performance of this song is my favorite. Björk will always be one of my favorite artists. I’ve been listening to her since I was about 10 years old haha Im now 35

[@howlingowl3254]

Sierra is so gad damn amazing...

[@garbagegirl6811]

I can't help but cry every time

[@Quentin-iy9zb]

Anyone here 2025???