Visit Malphino (Vinyl)

Malphino are an outer-national, mystical band from an imagined tropical island that has dreamt up a cinematic score and audio backdrop to their tropical idyll. A promised land of hypnotic cumbia rhythms, subtle digital warbling, accordion textures, voodoo haze and woodblock charm awaits the off-piste explorer willing to step through the arch and Visit Malphino, the debut album from this London-based collective of diaspora musicians and visual artists. Their debut album Visit Malphino dives deep into the island's mythology. It's a 17-track epic that provides the soundboard to years of imaginative cultivation. With clues in the titles, each track represents a different element to the island. It embodies the growth of the Malphino concept from an abstract idea within the minds of a few friends to a more complex fantasy at the centre of a small community of musicians and artists. Speculation is open-ended. Repressed on heavy weight black vinyl. Artwork by Yu Sato & Ana Kazaroff.

Track List

1. Through the Arch
2. Molienda
3. Looking for Kiwanos
4. Interludio - the Caves of Magdalena
5. The Sleep Tree
6. Kemu Kemu
7. Maglalang Avenue
8. Interludio - Beach of los Coquitos
9. Mi Malphino 82'
10. Ototoa
11. Interludio - Puerto Flamingo
12. Viento Del Mañana
13. Interludio - Lluvia de Verde
14. Segunda Molienda
15. Impian Ku
16. Mono Borracho
17. La Bella Isla