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Then I moved into techno with Daft Punk and Laurent Garnier, then into jazz, trip hop and finally to gypsy swing and house. I began music at twelve with the grunge and hard rock scene, bought a bad Stratocaster and began to make lot of noise in my parents’ garage. I know all other members of the band have an academic classical formation but not me. Not really, there are no musicians in my family. Was music a great part of your growing up? We really like cheap old school robots, as you can see on our album covers. Like Forbidden Planet, The Day The Earth Stood Still and of course Metropolis with all of the steam-punk retro futuristic culture. Yes! We're very influenced by old sci-fi movies. We also really like English with bands Mount Kimbie, SBTRKT, Massive Attack or stuff from Ninja Tune or Warp.ĭoes the moving image have an influence on your music? Then we listen to a lot of electronic music! French music, like Daft Punk and German minimal stuff like Isolée or Villalobos. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey and Django Reinhardt are some examples. In term of music, jazz swing from the 30s and 40s were our main musical influences. Your musical direction has changed somewhat since the first album, who were your main musical influences while working on Panic? Also the US and Australia seem to be more and more interest in this genre! Electro-swing is a fairly new ‘genre’, other than London where else have you seen a growth in the sound? In Germany there's a nice electro-swing scene. you can read the title of our new album! (Laughs). The first album has been a nice success in France, so it's always difficult for the second one. What did that mean for your approach to releasing the album? How did you reapproach the situation? But indeed the title became more popular in UK and US. For the second album we wanted more sober melodies with a tighter sound. Clash is a bit violent with dirty bass synth and brutal snares and kick, and has a long crescendo ending with dirty synths. Why do you think your music is better received outside of your home country?Īctually, the response from France was good but some people preferred the more acoustic and gentler sound of the first album. You’ve said single ‘Clash’ didn’t receive a great response in France and were surprised to see how popular it was in the UK.

Vocals are also mixed in the same way! Is it an old school jazz vocal sample? Is it the singer Colotis Zoé? We like that the listener can't tell if it's a sample, a synth or a real guitar. It is also more electronic, with lot of work on the sound and the beats.Īll live instruments have been performed and mixed and sound like samples from the 30s.

This one is closer to old school jazz big band and other North American influences. Your sophomore album Panic was released early 2013, what’s one thing you did differently the second time around and why? Jasmine Phull speaks to Hugo aka Hugues Payen about the new direction and their past and present influences. Championing live instruments both on and off stage the collectif francais has left the “dirty bass synth and brutal snares” of their self-titled debut behind for ‘Panics’’ old school jazz sound that will have you travelling back in time. Now in the mist of composing their fourth album, the band has decided to take a break from the studio and go back on the road in North America.Effortlessly cool is a phrase synonymous with the French and electro swing band Caravan Palace have the European zeitgeist running through their gypsy veins. With their 1940s inspired look, they serve up festive, frantic music, an improbable futuristic and melodious Jive fit for the dance floor. The band has come a long way since they first assembled in a Paris Studio in the late 2000’s to create the soundtrack for an early 20th century erotic film.Īll accomplished Jazz musicians, their shared love for electronic dance music pushed them to combine those influences into a new project, at the crossroads of the exuberance of manouche jazz (the Caravan) and the hedonism of modern club music (the Palace, after one of the iconic Parisian clubs). With the breakout single “Lone Digger” (50M+ views on Youtube) and a third album (aka Robot) that has topped 50,000 sales in the USA with a running 72 weeks of presence in the Billboard Dance / Electronic Charts, 2016 was a breakout year for Caravan Palace in the USA.

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