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Curry & Coco
12+ albums
frenchelectronicElectroclashindiemale vocalists
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Remember the time in the late 1970’s when punks traded in their guitars for synths, and re-configured disco as a bastard brother of garage rock? Well you should, especially if you weren’t around for it. And here, now, to recreate the raw excitement and sonic abandon of post-punk’s wildest hour are Thomas Pliem and Sylvain Przybylski, the duo known as Curry and Coco. C&C began playing together in 2006 in their hometown of Lille in Northern France. Close friends from early childhood, they acquired their joint nickname, Curry and Coco, from a Thai au pair who looked after them both. Their symbiotic relationship and engagingly untidy appearance – once compared in the French media to that of “Croatian tennis players circa 1973” – have always intrigued onlookers. Suffice to say that an intuitive bond was in place long before they decided to express it in music. “We are like brothers, and yet not,” Pliem observes, enigmatically. Bored by the processed perfection of most modern recordings, they found an echo of the authenticity they craved in the music that flourished, briefly, in the years before they were born. “This was a time, 1978 actually, when it felt like everything was happening,” says Przybylski. “There were no rules. We fell in love with Devo, The Human League, the first Joy Division album. The electro rhythms of Giorgio Moroder were a great influence on us. The electronic groups like Cabaret Voltaire were changing the vocabulary of rock, and even the guitar bands like G
