Annotations for Speaker: Javier Palacios

I think it's a little bit of both.

For me, when I arrived in Houston in '78, I used to go to a club named the Acropolis. And I started getting to see Greek bands, Turkish bands, and all sorts of different foreign music. And I got really fascinated by it.

When I moved into Austin, the first band that I got to see that had a Middle Eastern music was 1001 Nights, which is the band that Kamran had in those days.

Basically, we kept tracking each other's bands and admiring each other's music. But later on, we got to meet each other and the idea came to the surface.

I know.

I think it has been a very positive response. The adaptation was so incredibly good. It was very magical in the studio. We were just trying to do this song different ways.

And finally, the way it came, it was just like one take and it was just magical.

Gracias a ti.

That sounds pretty cool.

Right. Actually, Kamran had somebody talking about it. Why don't we go into something like salsa?

Gracias.