La Caravane Passe
Hip-Hop / Gypsy Punk / Balkan music
For 20 years now, this “Mano Negra of the Balkans” has made the stage their specialty… A Balkanik Rock-French band packed with energy, electrifying audiences at every concert!
If there’s one thing that characterizes La Caravane passe, it’s their hybrid compositions: a mix of Balkan music and French rock, combined with a few snippets of hip-hop. The result is a festive, very festive world.
In La Caravane Passe, the point of view is always that of the traveler. Toma Feterman takes his band - and then all of us - on a double journey through the music of Eastern and Southern Europe, then on international tours that stop wherever spectators dream of going.
Before releasing their sixth studio album, La Caravane Passe spent four years on the road; four years during which the band drew a great deal of inspiration from what they heard on their new stopovers.
Once again, frontiers, languages, forms and rhythms become entangled. But Toma Feterman’s melodic art is clearly recognizable, as are his compositions in a Mitteleuropa Parigot accent, nourished by hip-hop and fluent in Serbo-Croatian.
It’s also about “inviting people to celebrate while being aware of the chaos that surrounds us” - halfway between Nietzsche and the village musician. Speaking from the traveler’s point of view also means speaking from the migrant’s point of view, without big words, without moralism and with a furious desire to dance. No explicit political message, and that’s all to the good: La Caravane Passe says, shows and lives pleasure, vertigo, trance, fraternity and freedom.
And that’s as good as any leaflet. In French, English, Spanish or Catalan (Llugs’ homeland), La Caravane Passe is on the road to sharing.