We have this huge tour with this band Arcade Fire from Canada. "Until December we're touring in the States and Europe and Latin America. Your touring schedule is pretty packed through the end of the year it looks like. "Yes that one is biographical, it’s actually Lilliana and her husband where they live." I actually looked up a translation and I was like, that’s what I figured!
I don't speak Spanish but I was watching the video for Somos Dos and I could relate to it. Obviously we have strong lyrics, but if people don't speak Spanish they can relate to the music through the body, and that’s awesome." But at the same time, our music has no language because it's so oriented toward the dance floor. The Latin and Caribbean music is becoming mainstream nowadays. I am very impressed every time you come here you see more people speaking Spanish. The Latin presence here in the States is huge. So every time we came there were more Americans in the crowd. And then the American boyfrienss started telling their friends. These Colombian girls came with their American boyfriends. "At first all of our concerts here were mostly Colombian girls. What’s it been like as you get more well known in the U.S.? And we started making music together until now, 11 years later." And when she listened to my music it was like chemistry at first sight. So it was like the perfect match for the music I was making. The timbre and the style had a lot of that, but at the same time it was contemporary. So she grew up listening to all this folk music and the way she sings is very related to that folk music from Colombia. Lilliana comes from a very special particular place in Colombia on the Caribbean coast, Santa Marta. And I came out with a sound that was a fusion between the two. Then I tried to blend those languages-international dance music with local dance music. And I had to do something about it so I started searching for our local dance music. And one day I started wondering why am I making electronic music if I live in Columbia? They make it better in Detroit and Chicago and London and Berlin. "Yeah, before I started making this, like, fusion music, I was making a purely electronic music, like house music. How did you know she was a good match for what you wanted to create? That is some cute beachwear.You were making music for a while before Li became your singer. We have it on good authority that she’s bringing out a new collection soon, and we’re not mad. It could also be taken as a pretty excellent fashion film, given the heavy product placement of Saumet’s Soy Banana Girl line of tropical print, vintage-cut bikinis. She also says, “I like to involve my city in my music because I feel they are one.” Saumet says it was shot there because that’s where the real-life love story she is singing about took place. It was shot near Santa Marta in Tayrona National Park and features the coastal town’s people and Caribbean landscape with warmth and intimate affection. While the lyrics celebrate a romantic relationship between two people, the video doubles as a love poem to Saumet’s hometown of Santa Marta. As the singer plays with her lover in the waves and releases an offering on a raft of palm fronds, the romantic and the spiritual flow together as naturally as water. The scene echoes her lyrics, but adds some new layers to Saumet’s message.
Bassist and producer Simón Mejía also makes a cameo or two. Saumet carries on a carefree romance with a hunky surfer (her real-life fiancé) and does yoga on the beach. In the just-released and beautifully shot video for the track, the song takes on a more meditative dimension. Liliana Saumet‘s explosively romantic lyrics matched the pop song’s booming beat and provided a reason to dance a little closer to your partner – or whomever. At Bomba Estéreo‘s live show in New York last week, “Somos Dos” – from their recently released album Amanecer– was one of the biggest dance numbers of the night.
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