Ice Palace | zh

Paris, France (2005 – present) It all started with a double bass player, a guitarist and a violinist; all highly talented musicians who are really into swing, Django addicts who enjoy tinkering with electro. Their project swayed a singer, a clarinettist, a trombonist who doubles up on percussion and a guitarist who also acts as DJ. With their “Zazou” look (inspired by Parisian paleo-punks from the 1940s), they serve up festive, frantic music, an improbable futuristic and melodious Charleston fit for the dance floor. Caravan Palace is to swing what the Gotan Project is to tango. It so often starts...

GIN PALACE are an electrifying three-piece from London by way of Australia, America and England (via Spain), who strip it down to the rock essentials; the monster guitar of ex-PENTHOUSE/Fifty Tons of Black Terror guitarist Jon Free, Stuart Bells' savage primal drums, and the volcanic vocals of Meaghan Wilkie. With an Album, an EP and live dates across the globe including CMJ and SXSW, Gin Palace have also guested on JON SPENCER and MATT VERTA-RAY's HEAVY TRASH album. Radio Session appearances on DJ John Kennedy's XFM radio show 'Xposure', a UK tour supporting THE KILLS, and support slots with COUNTRY...

There are at least two artists with the name Sun Palace: a disco producer from the 1980s and a singer-songwriter. 1. Sun Palace was a disco producer who only put out one single under this production name, containing the tracks "Winning" and "Rude Movements" (1983). 2. Sun Palace is the musical vision of vocalist, songwriter, and musician Andriette Redmann, who was raised on a Wisconsin cherry farm that doubled as an artist colony—a place she describes as "a combination of Ringling Brothers and a Bergman film." Andriette came from a musical family going back many generations and her earliest inspiration...