Caravan Palace (album)
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Caravan Palace is the debut album
by electroswing
group Caravan Palace
, released on 20 October 2008. The album performed best in the band's native France where it attained a peak position of No. 11 in August 2009, and remained on the French albums chart for 68 consecutive weeks.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by electroswing
Electroswing
Electro Swing is a musical genre fusing swing with hip hop and house techniques.Electro Swing is mainly popular in Europe, and electro swing artists incorporate influences such as Tango and Django Reinhardt's Gypsy Swing...
group Caravan Palace
Caravan Palace
Caravan Palace is a French Electroswing band based in Paris. The current band line-up consists of Sonia Fernandez Velasco , Arnaud Vial , Hugues Payen , Camille Chapelière , Charles Delaporte and Antoine Toustou...
, released on 20 October 2008. The album performed best in the band's native France where it attained a peak position of No. 11 in August 2009, and remained on the French albums chart for 68 consecutive weeks.
Track listing
Personnel
- Hugues Payen - violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Arnaud Vial - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Charles Delaporte - double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
- Camille Chapelière - clarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
- Antoine Toustou - tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
, beat synth - Aurélien - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, DJ - Sonia Fernandez Velasco - vocalist