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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | In a building in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ancalle de la Tanka, |
0:11.0 | Armando Lopez and his band Epilogio are noodling around. |
0:16.0 | Oh yeah, I think that one can work. |
0:17.0 | There's an engineer there with him too. |
0:19.0 | His name's Mateo. |
0:20.0 | Tapes are rolling. Let's make a record, brother. |
0:21.6 | Let's make a great record. |
0:23.6 | The studio's on the second floor. It's bright with natural light, |
0:28.6 | and there are black and white checkered tiles on the floor. |
0:31.6 | Armando and Mateo are trying out various ideas, different drum templates, |
0:36.6 | basically just messing around. |
0:39.4 | And it was on a day like this, when suddenly, the old jukebox in the corner of the room |
0:48.4 | turns on by itself. |
0:51.4 | We were recording, and it was like, what's that, what's that sound? |
0:55.0 | And everyone took their headphones up. |
0:57.0 | Dude, it was, it was freaky. |
0:58.0 | I said, oh, you know, |
1:00.0 | la sanito, la bananada, you know, the ghost, I'm sorry. |
1:03.0 | And they said, no, let the song play. |
1:05.0 | Let it finish. |
1:07.0 | Mateo, the engineer, he owns and runs the studio, and he had bought this jukebox from an old man whose wife had just died. |
1:14.5 | The old man had told him that his wife had loved the old jukebox. |
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