Photography by Lisa Minogue. Copyright Liberation Images 2014 Tell us about your background in music, DJing and production Cocoa Noire combines the elements of DJing, live vocals and instrumentation. We started as a duo with Francoise on vocals and Jackson Miles DJing. With original Cocoa Noire material in the works our setup has now evolved and embraces live elements in an extended setup with Golden Cub on guitar and Winters on keys. All of us come from performance and DJing backgrounds that mould together to form the Cocoa Noire sound. How did you find one another and what made you decide to form Cocoa Noire? We met at a local gig and both shared interests and love for similar genres. Cocoa Noire was not something that we actively decided to form. The first “performance” was impromptu, at a friend’s party where Jackson Miles was DJing. At this point in time it was something that we had done for fun. Our friends encouraged us to pursue it and over time venues continued to book us as something different that stood apart from DJing in a traditional sense. A change in our setup to include an sp404 was the catalyst to the … Continue reading TALKING ORGANICS WITH COCOA NOIRE