Biography
French indie pop duo Watoo Watoo craft understated, sweetly tuneful indie pop that blends strands of 1960s pop, French chanson, bossa nova, and jangly lo-fi textures. A debut EP assembled from material tracked across the preceding three years surfaced in 1997. Their first proper album, Le Fumalin, followed in 2001. The fourth and final long-player, Modern Express, appeared in 2018.
Pascale and Michaël Korchia launched the Watoo Watoo project in 1994. Michaël handled the music while Pascale supplied the vocals, steering an understated path that yielded releases in assorted formats across multiple labels. Their opening EP, Un Peu de Moi, emerged on the American imprint Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club in 1997. Two years afterward, Radio Khartoum issued the EP Picture of a Lost Friend. Early in 2001, Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club presented Curiosités?, a collection of obscurities that encompassed renditions of pieces by Felt and Alain Souchon. Later that year, Clover Records released the band’s inaugural album, Le Fumalin.
The pair maintained a deliberately quiet presence, viewing live performances as overly draining, yet labels continued to champion their catalog. Les Disques Maladroits reissued Le Fumalin in 2003. Letterbox Records brought out the second album, La Fuite, in 2007, while Dufflecoat Records issued the Le Tourbillon EP in 2011. Over time, Watoo Watoo placed songs on more than a dozen compilations, most prominently Darla’s Donovan tribute A Gift from a Garden to a Flower, where their reading of “Jennifer Juniper” stood out. Jigsaw, a U.S. label, handled both the 2014 full-length Une Si Longue Attente and the concluding album, Modern Express, in 2018.
Pascale and Michaël Korchia launched the Watoo Watoo project in 1994. Michaël handled the music while Pascale supplied the vocals, steering an understated path that yielded releases in assorted formats across multiple labels. Their opening EP, Un Peu de Moi, emerged on the American imprint Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club in 1997. Two years afterward, Radio Khartoum issued the EP Picture of a Lost Friend. Early in 2001, Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club presented Curiosités?, a collection of obscurities that encompassed renditions of pieces by Felt and Alain Souchon. Later that year, Clover Records released the band’s inaugural album, Le Fumalin.
The pair maintained a deliberately quiet presence, viewing live performances as overly draining, yet labels continued to champion their catalog. Les Disques Maladroits reissued Le Fumalin in 2003. Letterbox Records brought out the second album, La Fuite, in 2007, while Dufflecoat Records issued the Le Tourbillon EP in 2011. Over time, Watoo Watoo placed songs on more than a dozen compilations, most prominently Darla’s Donovan tribute A Gift from a Garden to a Flower, where their reading of “Jennifer Juniper” stood out. Jigsaw, a U.S. label, handled both the 2014 full-length Une Si Longue Attente and the concluding album, Modern Express, in 2018.
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