Initially sought by a production company to record the soundtrack to a vintage silent erotic movie, Caravan Palace was founded in 2008 as a fun seven-piece band from Paris, France. Specialising in a modern electronic dance approach to the classic genres of jazz and swing, the band perfected the genre of electro swing with their first two studio albums – their bombastic eponymous debut, and the more modest, but ironically titled, Panic. They have since taken on a more electronic and experimental route with the oddly-titled <​I°_°I> (Robot Face), and Chronologic.

Championing a liberal use of brass and string instruments, the upbeat and jazzy music is complemented by the charming voice of Zoé Colotis and the transformative style of Caravan Palace’s members on electronics, violin, clarinet, saxophone, and trombone, among many other classical instruments.