Wara Leave to Remain Album Launch at Jazz Cafe!

The launch party will be on 7th August and will feature a headline performance from Wara themselves, with support from friends and family Ruby and The Vines plus Movimientos DJs. The launch party follows the 1st July album release, and is set to be a night of celebration, music, dancing, and fun!

'Leave to Remain' is the debut album by Wara, the young revolutionaries of the UK's Latin music scene, and follows their critically acclaimed self-titled EP (Movimientos Records, 2011). The genre-defying 'Leave to Remain', sees the band take their trademark sound to higher grounds, effortlessly combining Cuba's most danceable rhythms and styles – timba ("Cuban salsa"), songo, cha-cha-cha, rumba - with contemporary urban elements such as reggae, soul, hip-hop and jazz. The songs on the album are threaded with bilingual, conscious lyrics that inject social and political commentary into their music in a variety of ways: there are songs that directly touch upon the topics of migration, identity and displacement.