la despedida spanish for the farewell is a breakup album. a psychedelic, post-apocalyptic meta-breakup album by a band that has broken up more than once. for over a decade, san lazaro have been playing and writing original latin music in melbourne. a tribe of lost latinos, cobbled together from all over the spanish speaking world. from chile to cuba to catalonia, they ve come together at the southern end of australia to sing the songs they needed to sing and tell the stories they needed to tell.