But it’s assuring to see that Payen and his bandmates are looking at where they’re going as much as where they’ve been – even if that takes them down strange, unexpected paths. “Sometimes you forget that there’s more than one way to make popular music.”Ĭaravan Palace play Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club on July 5, Brooklyn’s Warsaw on July 6, New York City’s Irving Plaza on July 7, and Chicago’s House of Blues on July 15. What has changed for you? What have you learned about yourself and about your colleagues? is out now on Wagram Music.īrightest Young Things: Caravan Palace have been performing together for the better part of a decade.

Hugues Payen: Aha! You started off with a good question. I could say almost everything has changed for me. We were just musicians who played in cafés in Paris when this started, over ten years ago. Thanks to this band we could touch with our fingers what every musician dreams of. Now we are more than just bandmates we are almost family. Sometimes you know exactly how someone will react when you do something. But there’s a lot of love in the group, and that’s what is most important.īYT: Beyond becoming a lot closer with each other, do you find that you want to spend time together when you’re not on tour? You know people better than their own wife, or their own mother.

We all have families and things like that. When we are on tour, we are on tour for weeks and weeks – sometimes we spend upwards of a month together all the time. When we come to America I spend more time with them than with my own kids. So we try to avoid being together outside of tour. When we meet again, it’s always a pleasure – we haven’t seen each other for months or for years. And we try to keep that dynamic!īYT: You’re really fortunate to still have that dynamic in the group. I feel very lucky to play with the people I do.īYT: Your music represents a fusion between past and present in your music.

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