After releasing Ayo in 2017, Bomba Estereo toured the globe for the better part of two years. While traveling Europe by bus in 2019, guitarist and co-producer José Castillo and percussionist Efraín Cuadrado began recording rhythms and vamps for new songs. At home, Simon Mejía built tracks around them and sent them to Li Saumet. She enlisted her friend Lido Pimienta, a Colombian singer/songwriter, to complete the demos. In January 2020, Bomba Estereo and Pimienta, with Mexican singer/songwriter and guitarist Leonel Garcia, Cuban vocal/percussion duo Okan, Colombian and Nigerian Afrobeat singer Yemi Alade, convened at Saumet's beachfront home in Santa Marta on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Out the front door lay the ocean and crashing waves, out the back lay the sprawling jungle and snow-capped mountains. The sounds of their environment permeated the recording atmosphere and made their way onto the finished album. The 13 songs that make up Deja were completed by the entire group a few weeks before the world shut down. The set is divided into four sections representing each of the four elements, air, fire, water, and earth. Climate change and ecological concerns are central themes here, but aren't the only ones. Spiritual matters, transcending depression, desire, and the importance of community are entwined, too.

1		Agua
2		Deja
3		Como Lo Pedí
4		Soledad
5		Se Acabó
6		Conexión Total
7		Tamborero
8		Lento
9		Tierra
10		Amor Amor
11		Profundo
12		Ahora
13		Mamo Manuel Nieves (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta)

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