Coffeeshop Conversations #33: Luz Elena Mendoza - Behind the return of Y La Bamba

July 30, 2015 Thanks for coming back to the coffeeshop, or…thanks for being here if it’s your first time. As usual this week’s Coffeeshop Conversation is coming to you from a coffeeshop, World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th & Glisan. With me today is Luz Elena Mendoza, the mystic goddess who leads Y La Bamba. They’ve been off the scene for two and a half years, but she is in the process of reviving, re-forming the group and we’ll find out all about it. She is at the tail end of a Kickstarter Campaign to raise money to complete the production of the new album Oljos Del Sol. She's trying out some of the new songs on the road as she prepares to record. She has a lot to say and when she says it, you tend to hang on every word.