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Caravan Palace
French electro swing band
For the album, see Caravan Palace (album).
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| Origin | Paris, France |
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| Years active | 2008 (2008)–present |
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| Website | www.caravanpalace.com |
Caravan Palace is a French electro-swing band based in Paris. The band's influences include Django Reinhardt, Vitalic, Lionel Hampton, and Daft Punk.[1] The band released their debut studio album, Caravan Palace, on the Wagram label in October 2008. The record charted in Switzerland, Belgium, and France, where it reached a peak position of number 11.[2]
History
The band formed as a three-piece when they were recruited to compose the soun
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Caravan Palace
Caravan Palace är ett fransktelektroswingband från Paris.[2]
Gruppen bildades år 2005 efter att tre av bandets medlemmar anlitats av ett filmproduktionsbolag att göra ett soundtrack till stumfilm.[2][3] Det nuvarande bandet består av Sonia Fernandez Velasco (sång och klarinett), Arnaud Vial (gitarr), Hugues Payen (fiol), Camille Chapelière (klarinett), Charles Delaporte (kontrabas) och Antoine Toustou (elektronik och trombon).[4] Bandets influenser inkluderar bland annat Django Reinhardt, Vitalic, Lionel Hampton och Daft Punk.[1]
Bandet släppte sitt debutalbum, Caravan Palace, under skivbolaget Wagram i oktober 2008. Skivan hamnade på topplistorna i Schweiz, Belgien och Frankrike, där den nådde en 11:e plats.[5]
Historia
[redigera | redigera wikitext]Det första mötet mellan bandmedlemmarna kom år 2005 när Vial, Payen och Delaporte hyrdes av ett filmproduktionsbolag för att ge ett soundtrack till stummapornografiska filmer.[2][3] Bandet bildades som en trio, även om det var ett år innan de mötte musikproducenten Loïc Barrouk som tog ett int
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Paris, France (2005 – present)
It all started with a double bass player, a guitarist and a violinist; all highly talented musicians who are really into swing, Django addicts who enjoy tinkering with electro. Their project swayed a singer, a clarinettist, a trombonist who doubles up on percussion and a guitarist who also acts as DJ. With their “Zazou” look (inspired by Parisian paleo-punks from the 1940s), they serve up festive, frantic music, an improbable futuristic and melodious Charleston fit for the dance floor. Caravan Palace is to swing what the Gotan Project is to tango.
It so often starts out like that: a gang of mates who’ve kicked around together for the past ten years and who each get into music off their own bat. In this case, it was Hugues on the violin, Arnaud on guitar and Carlos on the double bass. A shared craze for manouche jazz (gypsy-style jazz), played in its natural setting, bars. Relatively serious composition, with a Zeitgeist twist: DIY electro, house, dub and hip-hop.
What triggered it all was an order placed by a film production company: a soundtrack
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