Casualness, closeness, eclecticism and positive vibes. Both the French band Caravan Palace and Travis Birds from Madrid share these features. Swing, electronic, folk, pop and jazz in two cocktail shakers of irresistible effect.
They completed their original formation through MySpace, became popular thanks to Youtube and are one of the projects that generates more danceable content on TikTok. Coincidence? Not at all. France's Caravan Palace have played all the clubs in the last fifteen years, both stylistically and on social networks, and that has made their elegant, eclectic and danceable formula adapt to the times with astounding ease. Fans of Django Reinhardt, Lionel Hampton, Daft Punk or Vitalic, the Parisian octet has been triumphing in the French, Belgian and Swiss charts for three decades, thanks to its intelligence to integrate electronica, swing, house and jazz. The latest example is the radiant "Gangbuster Melody Club" (2024), a fifth album that stands as the most diverse, explosive and danceable of their entire career.
Madrid-born singer-songwriter Travis Birds is as much a fan of Tom Waits as she is of Bob Marley or Nirvana. She likes cabaret pop, jazz and Latin folklore. He likes the mix, the hybrid, the spontaneous and borderless musical language. His discography radiates the self-confidence of someone who has collaborated with Rayden, Macaco, La Pegatina or Kevin Johansen and has participated in albums such as that tribute to Joaquín Sabina - "Ni tan joven, ni tan viejo" (2019) - which brought together Amaral, Robe Iniesta, Bunbury, Alejandro Sanz or Vanesa Martín. Her fourth and latest work, "Perro deseo" (2023), has a wide range of producers (Tato Latorre, Paco Salazar, Leiva and Carles "Campi" Campón) and collaborators (Depedro and Leiva himself), but this chorality does not prevent it from being the album that best defines her as an artist.
