I could do an interview in Spanish and so on and so forth. I really wanted to dive deep into that, and so I wrote some songs with my Cuban friends." But to sit down and write songs, that required a little more in-depth command of the language. "After he gave me the melody, it was really quite simple, quite easy." "He knew what he wanted people to feel with the songs," says Alejandro Menéndez Vega, a cinematographer and writer who assisted Malo with the lyrics of a few songs. Vega also brought a source of linguistic inspiration to the songwriting sessions: a rhyming dictionary published in Argentina in the '40s. "So we put it on the table, and that's usually the center of gravity." "It has so many beautiful old Spanish words and I love to use it," he says. Guitarist Eddie Perez says the songs took him back to family barbecues while the arrangements drew him away from some of his familiar approaches to lively lead playing. "I feel like this music called for a little bit more subtleties and a little bit more eloquence than it did for like, just to find a spot to shred," Perez says.
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