It is hilariously and wonderfully clear that ASTROPICAL, the musical collaboration between members of Bomba Estéreo and Rawayana, was meant to be.
The moment I hop on to our scheduled video call by Zoom, Li Saumet and Alberto “Beto” Montenegro are already joking around on camera. They are in separate hotel rooms and Saumet is telling him how he should have answered a question in a previous interview.
“You’re supposed to say, music is politics!” Saumet says, humorously emphasizing and exaggerating the last three words. Beto laughs and provides his own exaggerated version of the phrase until their publicist politely gets us on track and they shift into serious-mode.