Colombia’s Bomba Estéreo and Venezuela’s Rawayana, two award-winning Latin pop power- houses, have combined forces in ASTROPICAL. What began as a collaboration on a single expanded to become a full-length eponymous album. ASTROPICAL contains two members of each: Bomba’s Li Saumet (vocals) and José Castillo (keys), and Rawayana’s Beto Montenegro (vocals, guitar, bass) and Andre “Fofo” Story (drums). Saumet called Montenegro to collaborate on a single, and he agreed. After he sent her the demo for the first single, “Me Pasa (Piscis),” she finished it in six hours. They booked a small Miami studio and cut three more songs. Impressed, Montenegro traveled to Saumet’s house in Santa Marta, where they wrote the remainder of the album…

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