CooEE

Cooee is Australian duo Kirli Saunders and Mark Chester Harding. The duo began serendipitously, after Saunders and Harding met performing with Jack River for triple j’s Like a Version in late 2023. That same week, Saunders released her poetry collection, Returning (Magabala) — a book that would linger with Harding and form the lyrical foundation of their early songwriting sessions. A handful of Saunders' poems were soon set to Harding’s pre-existing musical sketches, marking the start of Cooee.