Even for the second album, in 2010, we wanted it to be totally different. HP: Very good question, because it’s an everyday fight. WSN: You had mentioned back in your interview with Sensible Reason in 2014 that you felt like Caravan Palace’s first album “had 2005 stamped all over it.” What makes you say that, and how did you stamp 2015 onto your latest album? But i have a lot of friends who are very good with that sort of thing – even better than some professionals – so we’ve got a lot of good help.īasically, being a musician is now a 3-D job, when it used to be a 2-D job. So you have to deal with contracts and paperwork, and that’s not our job so we have to hire some people for that, because if you’re not used to it, it’s impossible. There’s a lot of different sources and proposals – for instance, for advertisements on the internet. We are musicians from the business world, but we learned to do it, even if we had to let some people do it for us when we’re not able to because of contracts and things like that. But now, not so much – now myspace has changed, and the business is just totally different. In france we were quite famous before the internet thanks to myspace, so we’re the children of that. HP: The internet has changed the relationship between business and musicians, and we had the chance to become famous at the beginning of the internet wave thanks to myspace. WSN: The Internet makes it easy to get noticed internationally, but how hard – or easy – is it to get business done internationally? What’s the hardest part of touring North America when you’re from Europe? When we began music prof, we were sure that we couldn’t do anything without a label or a publisher, and today it’s the contrary. When we began 10 or 15 years ago, the system was changing, and unfortunately we have the old-school contract. Hugues Payen: Wow, it’s totally revolutionized. WSN: Since the band formed in 2008, how do you think the music industry has changed? WSN had the chance to speak with one of the founding members, Hugues Payen, about their past albums, their present tour, and the future of the industry. This summer, they’re coming to North America on a tour to support their new album, “” (pronounced “robot”). The first few members met while composing the score to a porn film, and the group has only grown in the years since. Caravan Palace, a seven-person group from France, has been pioneering the electro-swing genre for nearly 10 years. Not only that, but you’re behind the times. If swing music and electronic music seem like an odd pairing to you, get ready for a surprise.
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