Hailing from musical Melbourne, Australia, San Lazaro releases La Despedida—the farewell—on July 2016, on HopeStreet Recordings. This band of Latinos living in a far-flung adopted city on the edge of the world creates honest music that tells stories of life. Not just breakup songs, but protest songs and songs of struggle and songs of promise.
The album contains traces of New York City salsa dura, Afro-Cuban rumba, son montuno, Peruvian cumbia from the 1960s, Chilean protest-folk music, and subtle psychedelia