We encourage you to post & share!Ĭrafting a thrilling fusion of Django Reinhardt / Stephane Grapelli-inspired gypsy jazz with Daft Punk-inspired dance beats and crisp production, be sure to catch Caravan Palace live in your city!ħ/28: Calgary, ALB Calgary Folk Festival
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The track is now available as a FREE MP3, and you can download it where it premiered with VICE’s Noisey today or HERE. A special b-side that doesn’t appear on the album is the danceworthy “Beatophone” (Club Mix), with the band’s signature smooth swing atop a thumping beat. To celebrate the tour, Caravan Palace re-released Panic, complete with new remixes. Currently in the midst of a US tour, Caravan Palace has invaded the west coast, where fans will have a chance to experience their infectious live show firsthand. From their 2009 eponymous debut album– which sold over 150,000 copies and made them a surprise breakout band from France that year– to their latest album Panic, they have always combined their trademark studio technology with incredible musicianship and infectious onstage energy. The sprawling music collective known as Caravan Palace are celebrated worldwide for pioneering the sound of electro swing. The musical magic is evident on every one of the 14 cuts… one of the best shows of the summer, no doubt.” And if you hang for just a moment … you’ll be dancing.” – NPR That’s just what you’d hear if you happen into a club where the band Caravan Palace is playing. And don’t forget to include Toustou in the Caravan.“Imagine sashaying into a night club, looking to get down to some thumping electro, only to hear swing music from the 1930s. The petulant voice of Colotis is booming again and the old friend Cyrille-Aimée is back on two songs. Tirelessly, the band tries new things, merges styles and makes creative decisions. It’s time to regroup in the studio… where fifteen vintage keyboards are waiting.
Six months later, forty-something titles pile up. But they also rediscover thirties and forties swing jazz, artists like Fletcher Henderson, or the less mainstream musicians like Charlie Chavers and Mildred Bailey. They still love Massive Attack, they still dig the creative minds of Ninja Tune, Isolée’s minimal electro vibe or Gorillaz’s grand hip-hop rock bazaar. The basic rhythm of the first album has mutated into sophisticated beats, less gimmicky, more varied and enriched with sounds flirting with the frontiers of trip-hop. And when the others react instinctively, it’s generally a good sign. The same process starts over the next day. How do they come up with new songs? Every member of the band works in his own musical lab before exchanging files at night. This has never happened before.īut during the autumn of 2010, they stop and take a month off to start thinking about the new album. The room is packed, people go crazy… listening to swing. The record is released a year later, and it’s an immediate hit.
The word is out, their breakout song, Jolie Coquine, is playing everywhere. Terrified to be part of the gypsy jazz pantheon, they gather speed and steam and create a real posse (not unlike hip-hop) that follows them everywhere. And everything clicks in 2007, during the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois. They start touring long before they even think about releasing an album. A few myspace posts later and they have almost doubled in size, enrolling Chapi and the boisterous Colotis in the band. And it’s far better than those retro futuristic sounds… because it swings. That’s where this peculiar mixture of classical Django and new trendy electro comes from. Charles, Arnaud and Hughes, the initial trio, dig swing, especially gypsy jazz, and try their hands at the genre’s traditional instruments: guitar, double bass and violin. Their strength lies in their common passion for electronic music.
The surprise breakout band of the last decade, the apostles of Electro Swing and precursors of a laidback yet terribly upbeat trend, is coming up with an evocative second album: Panic! This time, Caravan Palace takes us even farther than their first album (that sold more than 150 000 copies) and continues an amazing adventure almost started by accident. Same Palace, with a brand new customized flavor. Here we go, let’s take the Caravan for another tour. The date is fast-approaching when Caravan Palace, one of the best electro-swing groups around, take over New York’s Best Buy Theater on April 2nd as a part of their North American Tour, including a stop at Coachella. Share: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
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