Caravan Palace have long been associated with the dance music sub-genre electro-swing (a mash-up of swing jazz and club beats), an easily accessible style reviled by hipsters but enjoyed by multitudes ...

Caravan Palace is a Paris-based sextet which, augmented on its debut album by seven guest musicians, is propelling manouche (French Gypsy jazz) into the digital age. It is to the genre something like ...

“Mirrors” is the latest single from Caravan Palace via Le Plan Recordings. The Parisians love to mislead listeners and "Mirrors" is no exception. On the surface, it is a sample-centric, frisky disco ...

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There comes a point when watching electro-swing pioneers Caravan Palace – possibly during the bit when there's a bloke scat singing through a vocoder – that you cannot help but wonder what on earth is ...

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 ...

October 23, 2013 • What had been an infrequent novelty — mixing electronic and '30s beats with scat and big band-ish horn solos — has become more and more common among European dance musicians and ...