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. Fans were an interesting mix of ages with some parents relaxing in the lounge while their teenage offspring was out on the main floor.Īll in all a great Friday night and yet another band that’s new to me and finding its way on my playlist.Here we go, let’s take the Caravan for another tour.
Lights were great – not overpowering the performance. She got a break for outfit changes during instrumental numbers. Colotis was a bundle of energy on stage, always moving and dancing. A surprise to me was their cover of “Black Betty” an African-American work song that came to fame through a Ram Jam cover in 1977. The fans engaged in pretty complex clapping sequences, clearly quite familiar with the songs. There were a few pointed violin bows to the beat of a heavy bass. Their music while electro swing at heart shows elements of Jazz and various EDM elements.
Their stage show is well a well controlled frenzy of musicians switching instruments (sometimes at a run mid-song). With their album “” aka Robot out they broke out in the US.Ĭentered on singer Zoé Colotis they took the stage and their unique blend of music had fans in their grasp from the opening bars of “Comics”. The band’s members found one another through myspace (yes I know) in 2006 and burst onto the Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival in 2007. I had been blissfully ignorant about Caravan Palace until a couple of weeks ago, and as so many time before was left wondering how yet another cool band had escaped my attention for so long.
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