Malphino + Guests at Jamboree!

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The fantastic Malphino, a mystical island’s band bringing a promised land of hypnotic cumbia rhythms, subtle digital warbling, accordion textures, voodoo vapours and woodblock charm, returns to Jamboree to celebrate the start of the new year!

Join us for a party where borders fade, the living and departed mingle, and London’s Latin American community –plus everyone who wants to join – can find a piece of home, community, and belonging con cumbia y amor.

With a range of Mexican-Colombian influences and a psychedelic twist, Malphino are are an outer-national, mystical band from an imaginary tropical island that has dreamt up a cinematic score and audio backdrop to their idyll! A night of musical wonder awaits the off-piste explorer willing to step through the arch and Visit Malphino, the debut album from this London based collective of musicians and visual artists!

As source material of traditional Latin American music and cumbia has etched itself in the global tracks of music, London has become a meeting point and international canvas for new tropical concoctions. And it is the capital that has provided the nourishment for Malphino - ft. members from Japan, Malaysia, Colombia, France, Philippines and the UK - to flourish. They also pay testament to the open-minded nature of record label Lex (MF Doom, BadBadNotGood, Kate Tempest), which has given them a stage on which to transcend the borders of Latin America and the London music venue where it all began.

Also, on the decks, Mexico’s own GYPSY BOX fires up the Balkan-Cumbia beats that have lit up dancefloors across Europe for over 10 years.

And Colombian vinyl queen LADY AVOCADO brings her signature picotera soundsystem energy fusing Latin and Afro-Caribbean sounds, including salsa, bullerengue y más.

Guatemala-born LA CURANDERA will also guide us into a ritual journey where ancestral rhythms and electronic textures meet in collective ceremony, transporting dancers into a “cumbia dimension”.

Jamboree food option: Our ‘Zer’ kitchen is open from 5pm serving delicious Middle Eastern fusion food for you to enjoy a pre-gig meal/snack if you wish!