by Malphino (Lex CD, LP and digital)
You can live in the damp and dream of the Tropics: this is the founding myth of Malphino and the band’s fantasy island of the same name. Malphino’s founders, DJ Yu Sato, tuba player David Aird and accordionist Alex Barrow, share a passion for Colombian cumbia and banda and Pacific cultures, and this album has a lightness of touch and weather system distant from the band’s east London home. Visit Malphino is a gentle, beguiling travel advert for Neverland, a place where the dancing never stops.
