The following album, The Falling (produced by Brian Eno, Hugh Jones and David Motion) had considerable success in France, achieving gold disc status, and also charted in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
"Sally", the first single lifted from the album, sold 200,000 copies in France alone, and led to McCourt featuring in a duet, "J'oublierai ton nom" with French rock singer Johnny Hallyday.
Jimmy Somerville provided guest vocals on the track "One Fine Day", a song dedicated to Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, only to be assassinated 10 months later.
[1] That album was followed by 1995's World's Gone Crazy,[1] with its producers including Carmel McCourt, Jim Parris, Gerry Darby, Julian Mendelsohn and Mike Thorne.
A single was released from World's Gone Crazy, the ballad "If You Don't Come Back", an English-language version of "Si tu no vuelves" by the Spanish singer-songwriter and actor, Miguel Bosé.
Live performance has always been central to Carmel's work and they are successful on the European touring circuit, and have frequently found greater appreciation on the continent than in the UK.
Paris created the band Nzi Dada with Paris-based multimedia artist Xumo Nounjio, and McCourt worked on various projects as a singer, writer and teacher.
As of October 2012, McCourt was set to return to live work with a new band formation, performing Carmel classics as well as material from the Strictly Piaf album.