KOU is the music project of Apolline Schöser and Thomas Coquelet, based in Lille/France. Since 2020, they're exploring song compositions :

- making concrete music into lullabies,

- playing fluffy guitars with the strings of a rope walker

- drowning jazz and non-jazz voices

- humming flutes with purring synths

- smoking piano stokes

- steeling giallo's cries to make them dance in almost groovy rhythms...

At a time of great deconstruction, one has the feeling of witnessing the birth of the music of a world after.

Some of the references are recognisable. All kinds of 70s/80s European art prog - think early Battiato, Pierot Lunaire’s Gudrun, Lucia Bosè and Gregorio Paniagua's Io Pomodoro etc etc. There’s a strong whiff of 90s us goof-off surrealism too-Bongwater, Siltbreeze, Royal Trux’s Twin infinitives, the damaged folkier side of Alastair Galbraith, Half-Japanese, early Beck even all feel relevant.

Like an oddball group of friends you might meet by chance and end up weirding-out with for days, the minds behind this deliciously odd music allow you to stay for a while in their strange subcultural world. You might not want to live here forever but a short trip, while it lasts, rewires your brain for the better..

⊳ quoted from Tom of All Night Flight

https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/kou