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
2025
07.02 Soirée Amérique du Sud (38)
13.03 Les Nuits de la roulotte (73)
15.03 Les Nuits du Massala ( 74)
21.03 Cartel del chipos (73)
11.04 Cully Jazz Festival (CH)
23.04 Release party - Le Transbordeur (69)
23.05 Printemps des nefs (44)
24.05 Carnaval à Vélo ( 77)
31.05 Festival film social et solidaire (06)
14.06 Le Fil (42)
21.06 Guinguette Electrique (38)
27.06 Fusion Festival ( DE)
28.06 Fusion Festival ( DE)
05.07 Festiflart (77)
14.07 Festival Tout le monde dehors ( 69)
26.07 Plein Feux Festival
01.08 Alriq (33)
07.08 Ohlinde Festival
08.08 Bouillon cube (34)
15.08 Festival Au grès du jazz (67)
16.08 Zomerterass Festival (NL)
29.08 Théâtre de l’ornagerie (CH)
30.08 Hadra Festival (03)
06.09 Le grand banquet (26)
19.09 Atlantikaldia festival (ES)
27.09 Carnaval Latino (69)
04.10 Château du Rozier (42)
10.10 Festival tous les bruits du monde ( 92)
11.10 Grand Longwy (54)
12.10 Pep en Fête/ NJP (54)
13.10 Java buissonnière/ NJP (54)
14.10 Maizières-lès-Metz (57)
16.10 Mirecourt (88)
17.10 Festival Jazz inter city (AU)
08.11 Festival Locombia (31)
15.11 Brasserie illegal( BE)
28.11 Le Dancing (34)
29.11 Le Cri’art (32)
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