Pambelé
Afro Colombian Psychedelic
"It is impossible to resist this invitation to dance and trance, which constitutes a dazzling demonstration of transcultural vitality."
Rock and Folk
Rich in centuries of creolization, the music of the Caribbean basin is among the most diverse and fascinating in the world. Today, its heritage crosses the oceans and continues to reinvent itself in an ever-richer sonic and narrative mise en abyme.
With Dámelo, their debut album, Pambelé offers a subtle blend of Afro-Colombian folk rhythms and piercing, acid sounds inspired by the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. Through this fusion, the group strongly asserts itself in a transatlantic cultural universality, resolutely Caribbean.
The traditional percussion and chants of the Colombian Caribbean coast blend with the incisive riffs of an electric guitar and the voluptuousness and warmth of an old analog organ. This first opus, a true distillation of raw material, invites us, with frenzy, into a captivating, torrid and exuberant trance, an irresistible call to dance.
News
• Release of the first single Te Entundo on the Palenque Record label
• 1st album early 2025
Highlights
Radio Meuh Circus Festival, Festival Woodstower, Festival Samba Al Pais, Festival Helden In Het Park (BE), Soirée Nova Lyon, Before Jazz A Vienne, Festival Convivencia, Festival Locombia, Festival Horizons, Tempo Latino, Vercors Music Festival, Musiques Métisses Colmar, Holidays Festival (IT) ...
Press
Télérama §§§ "Pambele has managed to give her penchant for 1960s Afro-Colombian psychedelia the forms of an exuberant modernity" / "Pambele's joyful, militant, and mystical banter captivates us"
FIP Radio "An exuberant and sensual fusion" Le Monde "A fiery and bubbling album"
Songlines "A captivating blend of Afro-Colombian rhythms and spacey psychedelic sounds redolent of 70s prog" / "(an) unassuming gem"
Le Monde TTT "The mixed-race group from Lyon fuses Afro-Colombian influences and 60s psychedelia into an exuberant modernity. Deliciously swaying."
With the support of SPEDIDAM
Tour 2025
14.02 Portail coucou salon de Provence (13)
04.04 Festival FEU Lyon (69)
11.04 Festival Noires Musiques Brest (29)
24.04 Smac 07 Theatre de Viviers (07)
25.04 Festival Chap Viol el fort (34)
02.05 La Guinguette des singes Grigny (69)
17.05 Festival des Cultures Differedange (LU)
20.06 Festival la bonne aventure Dunkerque (59)
24.06 Festival contre temps Strasbourg (67)
26.06 Les musicaves Givry (71)
27.06 Festival les pieds dans la vase Lorient (56)
28.06 EHZ Festival (64)
03.07 Good good Festival Gottingen (DE)
04.07 Festival d’ETE Cabaret sauvage Paris (75)
05.07 Les Dimanche de l’ile Barbe Lyon (59)
18.07 Festival Bilbao ( ES)
24.07 Festival du Péristyle Lyon (59)
31.07 Festival la clé des champs Montlaur (12)
01.08 Festilasai Biarritz (64)
09.08 La Foire Extraordinaire Padies (81)
29.08 Shambala Festival (UK)
29.08 Greenbelt Festival ( UK)
30.08 Fork & fixin ( UK)
05.09 Ott’Fest Mulhouse (68)
19.09 Festival de l’outdoor et de la rando Dignes les Bains (04)
03.10 Festival du bitume et des plumes Besançon (39)
21.11 Festival Filmar Genève (CH)
Booking Info
Renaud +33 6 08 43 66 45
7 musicians + 1 technician, based in Lyon, available all year round
Yomira John: vocals, percussion
Luisa Caceres: vocals, tenor sax, gaitas
Giles Davenport: guitar
Paul Charnay: keyboards, organ
Alex Lefko: percussion, backing vocals
Lorenzo Morrone: percussion
J.Mario Vargas: percussion, backing vocals