Parisian band Caravan Palace will make their live debut in the United States on January 10th with their performance at globalFEST 2010, happening at New York's Webster Hall. With a sound that will please fans of eclectics like Brazilian Girls and St. Germain, the group will be whetting the appetites of a new audience in anticipation of the Spring U.S. release of their self-titled first album, which is already a Platinum smash in France.
Comprised of Charles Delaporte (bass, programming), Arnaud Vial (guitar, programming), Hugues Payen (violin, programming), Colotis Zoι (vocals), Toustou (electronics, trombone), and Chapi (clarinet), Caravan Palace is chiefly influenced by Django Reinhardt but also cites Vitalic, Cab Calloway, Justice, Lionel Hampton and Daft Punk as influences. The band originally came together when Arnaud, Charles and Hugues were hired to score music for some rediscovered silent pornographic films (!) from the early 20th century. After playing the end result to some friendly listeners, the feedback persuaded them to drop their individual projects and come up with a repertory of their own.
After rounding out the band with Toustou, Chapi and the alluring vocals of Colotis they made their debut on the French independent label Wagram Music and promoted the release with the single "Jolie Coquine." After a year of intense touring of clubs, theatres and festivals in support of it they reached as high as #11 on the French albums chart and are now the 4th best selling artist of 2009 in the country.
Now on very solid ground with their success overseas, Caravan Palace is set to seduce the Americans in 2010 with their complete facelift of the swing genre
For seven years globalFEST (www.globalfest-ny.org) has been the springboard festival for world music artists on the brink of North American national main stage success, performers known in one community but ready to cross into others, and the marquee stars of tomorrow. globalFEST 2010 showcases French Gypsy jazz with breakbeats, cumbia-fied downtempo Argentine club sounds, soul-stirring Colombian roots, new generation Louisiana fiddling, Africa unplugged, Irish traditional song, Senegalese roots reggae, Central Asian avant rock, Romanian hybrid blues, New York salsa upstarts, and a Gwo-ka master from Guadeloupe all under one roof at New York City's Webster Hall (125 E. 11th St.) on January 10, 2010 at 7pm. The 2010 festival includes four U.S. debut performances and another NYC debut.
