La Passe caravan is a five -piece band from Paris, which combines Balkan music with hip hop, reggae , Tarantella , chanson and rock into a danceable circus aesthetics.
Toma Feterman , a French ex-punk with Polish- Jewish- Romanian grandparents 2001, the caravan sets in motion : He is talented linguist and multi-instrumentalist at the same time . Feterman mastered French , English, Spanish , Serbian, Romanian, and something novel, a smattering of German and writes lyrics that are downright bastards voice . He sings, plays guitar , banjo and trumpet. As this colorful bird begins musicians to rally for La Passe caravan , he seeks accomplices for a project to be more than just a band. The vision is an acoustic machinery for its Tower of Babel . A kaleidoscope of urban and folk styles. His main companion is fast Llugany Olivier , whose specialty is the Fiscorn , a traditional bass horn from Catalonia, which sounds like Balkantuba . Behind the drums raging ex - rugby player Pat Gigon , Cyril " Zinzin " Moret can play two saxophones at the same time , on bass and Ben dancing body , the man with North African roots.
Between 2001 and 2003, the combo to Feterman and Llugany earned her focused on gypsy and klezmer repertoire untergründigen a solid fan base in Paris. Preferably in the form of its gypsy rock cabaret "Le Vrai Faux Mariage " . Instead of a normal concert, the audience expects a circus performance in which the musicians dress , immerse yourself in different roles and throw in various languages and dialects. The madness of La Passe caravan starts . The circus tent quickly is no longer large enough , a common homeland , the imaginary village of nomads Plèchti is lifted from the baptism . The place is half utopia , half return to old times , when relations among the people were even more direct and easier . Plèchti but is also a Balkan cliché and not an attempt to imitate true Balkan Roma or bands.
2004 appears to Plèchti on the map in the form of self-produced debut album Go To Plèchti . Meet French rock tones on Gypsy Grooves from the Balkans and folk elements from Central Europe to Spain and North Africa. Also be inserted flashy hip-hop beats, a little Eastern tango, reggae and wriggling tarantella rhythms. The band moults colleagues in the Balkans Group as Fanfare Ciocarlia and Boban Markovic to popular stage partners. In Paris, they now fill the Elysée Montmartre . The successor Velkom Plèchti kidnapped in the different neighborhoods of the settlement, ubers of the Balkan Turks Cardboard City - Gecekondu to flamenco finca. The unique fantasy language acts as a Babylonian Barrio Guide . On Ahora In Da Futur numerous international guests, the five team invites : Included is the Maghreb rocker Rachid Taha , the young Hungarian diva Erika Serre or the Serbian Trumpets champion Marko Markovich . Together with their guests leave la Passe Plèchti caravan in a retro- futuristic time machine and pull through dusty deserts, into the Caribbean and brave dubby excursions into hard electro-rock slopes. On the successor Gypsy Caravan For One Day La Passe call their fans on this for a day in the skin of an urban nomads to slip and forget about the daily life and settle down . From Macedonia to Guatemala from Paris to New York this time the journey to go. Avant-garde, surrealistic and burlesque : Plèchti is suddenly everywhere . Always remains the sound of the globally - danceable and infectious , even prove statistical surveys: the single " T'a la touche manouche " has been chosen by our listeners to Radio Europe summer hit of 2012.
01. Rom A Babylone
02. Gypsy For One Day
03. I Wanna Be Your Slave
04. T'as La Touche Manouche (Feat. Sanseverino & Stochelo Rosenberg) 05. Saint-Tropez (Trop Aisé)
06. Strip-Tease Burlesque
07. Shouf La Chapka
08. Faut Du Slow'
09. What To Do In Katmandou
10. Rame Dans Lmétro
11. L'homme De L'automne
12. T'as La Touche Manouche (Instrumental) (Feat. Sanseverino & Stochelo Rosenberg)
