Violinist and Caravan Palace co-founder Hugo Payen says he was worried about their reaction. "We were very afraid of the reaction of gypsies, and really understood that we weren't here to do the same job as them," he says. "We were inspired by their music, by their culture. so they listen to our music for what it is: dance music - dance music inspired by their own culture."Ĭaravan Palace's three founding members, violinist Payen, guitarist Vial and bassist Charles Delaporte started out as jazz musicians, playing standards in a swing band.
But this group of 20-somethings all had side projects with electronica bands. Payen says they found a way to respect tradition and still have fun. "We try to do that job, to entertain the people, and we found that it was a strong characteristic of our music." "We didn't have the talent to do virtuoso music, very technical music, virtuoso exactly, so we asked ourselves to know what we found interesting in that style and, in my opinion, it was entertainment," he says. The band's concert in Los Angeles drew an audience of nearly 4,000 dancers. The show's promoter, Leigh Ann Hahn, director of programming at Grand Performances, compares Caravan Palace to another Paris-based band that mixes tango with electronic beats. It's that same sort of hybridity that really works, where they're being respectful of the tradition but bringing it into the modern day sensibility," she says. #CARAVAN PALACE TOUR UNITED STATES FULL#.
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