As a band playing a brand new style of music, what was the audience reaction like during your first performances? And you can call it as you want.ĭo you think robots will take over the world one day? But we didn’t tell the people to choose a name. So we decided to keep it the title of the album and not to give it a name, and let the people choose the name. But everyone thought it was OK-a good idea, maybe. It was risky to do it because maybe the newspaper wasn’t OK with it. It was a mistake our manager sent us one day and he didn’t type it right, and it appeared to be a robot. It’s difficult today to make something you’ve never heard. … It’s difficult for me to answer because we don’t know exactly what we’ll do next. … So it’s very current songs, from Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money” to some Kendrick Lamar.ĭo you see yourself expanding beyond swing and electronica in the future? Nowadays, it’s a living music, it’s different every day. For this one we wanted to come up with something fresh between the actual sounds and the current sounds-the things we were listening to at the moment, which was not always the case for the other two times.ĭo you mean you’re inspired by new types of electronica? We have to do something different but not too different. It was difficult for us to follow up something like that. The first one was fresh, different, unique music. This time it was difficult because the second one was very specific and very special music. Of course we try to have a different approach for every album we make. SN&R chatted with violinist Hugues Payen just before the band embarked on its North America tour. But with Robot, Caravan Palace dives deeper in modern electronic dance music, with some gritty, glitchy and dub-based sounds. Good luck listening and not dancing in your chair at work. Like its previous records, it’s filled with infectious beats and feel-good energy. Tickets cost $35.Ĭaravan Palace is on tour promoting its third album, which is generally referred to as Robot, but our website can’t handle publishing the real title because it thinks it’s a malicious script! Here’s a picture:Īnyway, the album dropped last fall. Northern California will get a rare visit when the band plays the Fox Theater in Oakland on Wednesday, June 8. The group’s 2008 debut record went platinum in France, and quickly through word-of-mouth, its reach could be felt stateside. One of its pioneers is Caravan Palace, a seven-piece big band from Paris with an upright bassist, violinist, trombone player and guitarist as its founding composers. That’s the basic formula behind electro-swing, a new-meets-old genre with an international cult following. Imagine a cross between Django Reinhardt and Daft Punk. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest

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