Speaker 1: From Futro Media and pr X. It's Latino USA. I'm
Speaker 1: Marieojosa Today. The band Making Movies, Making Movies is a
Speaker 1: band based out of Kansas City, Missouri that mixes rock
Speaker 1: with tropical Latin music. Like SISA the US, The group
Speaker 1: is based in Kansas City, but its members have roots
Speaker 1: in Panama and Mexico. Their sophomore album, I Am Another
Speaker 1: Youth features a fusion of electric guitar, mambo rhythms, and
Speaker 1: operatic vocals, and the album reached the ears of iconic
Speaker 1: Panamanian musician Ruben Blade, which is by the way the
Speaker 1: way he pronounces his name, and this led to Ruben
Speaker 1: Blades giving them a shout out at the twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: Latin Grammys.
Speaker 2: I'm Making Movies.
Speaker 1: Spinning out and they recently collaborated with Ruben Blades to
Speaker 1: put out a song called Noe Kays. We spoke with
Speaker 1: the band in twenty nineteen and we're happy to bring
Speaker 1: them back to you today. Listen as members Enrique Chi
Speaker 1: and Juan Carlos Chao Dan talk about one of the
Speaker 1: band's most ambitious tracks on their album I'm Another You.
Speaker 1: The song is called Lo Gura Collectiva.
Speaker 3: My name is Wan Carlos Chao Dan and I played
Speaker 3: percussion and keyboards for Making Movies.
Speaker 4: My name is Enrique Chi and I am the guitar
Speaker 4: player and singer of the band and also the songwriter.
Speaker 4: I was born in Santiagopanama, and I fell in love
Speaker 4: with rock and roll music first. And I really rejected
Speaker 4: Latin music as a little kid because I wanted to
Speaker 4: play the guitar like my dad. After like becoming an
Speaker 4: adult and realizing I'm an immigrant in the United States,
Speaker 4: the longing to reconnect to the Latina roots became.
Speaker 2: Bigger and bigger every year.
Speaker 4: So he collected a bunch of vinyls and that was
Speaker 4: my introduction to music.
Speaker 2: He had all these dire straits albums and one of
Speaker 2: them is called Making.
Speaker 4: Movies, and I thought, well, that would actually be kind
Speaker 4: of a cool band name.
Speaker 5: I love Struggle Romeo seeing the streets of Sereni.
Speaker 4: It harkens back to the time period of loving rock
Speaker 4: and roll before I spoke English.
Speaker 5: Love so that he made.
Speaker 4: Music can communicate even through a language barrier. Album is
Speaker 4: called I Am Another You.
Speaker 3: The name of this track is.
Speaker 4: My grandma and I were watching the news and she's
Speaker 4: this kind of like very protesting poetic woman, and my
Speaker 4: grandma goes, which means collective insanity.
Speaker 2: I thought, oh my god, there's a song and that.
Speaker 3: I think it always brings into the ideas and the blueprint,
Speaker 3: I guess you could say. And we just start to
Speaker 3: structure it little by little.
Speaker 4: And I actually had this riff lying around that I
Speaker 4: thought could marry to that, and the riff I don't
Speaker 4: know if you know this, but I.
Speaker 2: Stole the riff from you.
Speaker 4: You've been playing on a piano. Montuno is like it's
Speaker 4: the part of the piano break in a SASA song.
Speaker 4: It gets everybody to get up and dance. And then
Speaker 4: I changed the key and I moved it to more
Speaker 4: guitar friendly places, and I simplified it down to like
Speaker 4: damn day damp damn to make it like if if
Speaker 4: led zep One had played your piano part.
Speaker 3: Or something, and so hearing a little bit of the
Speaker 3: mon it kind of already took me to more of
Speaker 3: like a mumbo rhythm and we ran with it.
Speaker 4: Our band doesn't have a horn section, and a lot
Speaker 4: of Latin music, the high energy moments come from a
Speaker 4: horn riff. I think of Willie Colan's like many of
Speaker 4: his signature horn riffs that intro songs.
Speaker 2: So to do that on the guitar, you.
Speaker 4: Kind of need to run it through a bunch of
Speaker 4: crazy effects, like the fuzz that Keith Rich's on Satisfaction.
Speaker 4: That fuzz sound was advertised in the sixties is like,
Speaker 4: make your guitar sound like a horn. It kind of
Speaker 4: pictured the story in my head once I knew what
Speaker 4: I wanted to say. The lyrics did all come together
Speaker 4: in one sitting. Something has happened and the world has
Speaker 4: come to an end, and so what would you feel like?
Speaker 4: And then you run into an old man, You say,
Speaker 4: what do you think now we have a few moments
Speaker 4: left to live? The old man despised. I just kept
Speaker 4: praying that nothing would ever change. And to me, that's
Speaker 4: like the human fear of change is inevitable, but yet
Speaker 4: people feared.
Speaker 2: The song goes into outer space.
Speaker 4: The same and that's when the story says, well, God,
Speaker 4: what do you think of that? What do you think
Speaker 4: seeing us like this, you know, at war with each other,
Speaker 4: at the end of our road as human beings.
Speaker 2: That does sound kind of like the end of the world.
Speaker 2: By the time you get to the outrail.
Speaker 3: So that rhythm that we go towards the end that
Speaker 3: we break into, I just heard it automatically. It was
Speaker 3: just like, I think we should add some about that rhythms.
Speaker 3: I don't think my kungas are just enough for it.
Speaker 4: About that, you can't one person can't properly play it.
Speaker 2: It has to be a group.
Speaker 3: With three different people. And it's a very Yoduba centric
Speaker 3: which is the santaria rhythms in Kuba.
Speaker 4: And those rhythms technically you're not really supposed to mess
Speaker 4: with them unless you are initiated in the religion.
Speaker 3: So for us it was a learning curve for me especially,
Speaker 3: and it was one of those inspiring and it was
Speaker 3: a moving moment in the song.
Speaker 4: So we're going back towards the root of all Latino
Speaker 4: music and all even American music.
Speaker 2: But this record had a.
Speaker 4: Bunch of challenges before we were able to put it
Speaker 4: into the world. We made it four years ago. We
Speaker 4: would hire and fire people and then like files kept
Speaker 4: getting lost. Then we finish it and we're waiting sitting
Speaker 4: on it to be mastered in our record label that
Speaker 4: we'd signed to seem to have lost interest. There was
Speaker 4: a considerable time where I thought we had messed with
Speaker 4: the wrong juju.
Speaker 2: We cursed ourselves, Yeah.
Speaker 4: By you playing the bata and not being initiated to
Speaker 4: Santa Rie, or maybe by me cursing God for the
Speaker 4: state of mankind. Maybe I was accidentally whipped up a
Speaker 4: curse or you whipped up a curse upon our record.
Speaker 4: For a while I was worried, and this song was
Speaker 4: probably the cool print. We've made it through now and
Speaker 4: we seem to be all right.
Speaker 1: That was Enrique Chi and Juan Carlos Chagan from Making Movies.
Speaker 1: And just before we go, dear listener, a special treat
Speaker 1: for you. The members of Making Movies stop by the
Speaker 1: Latino USA offices and played a live session of one
Speaker 1: of their songs, Spinning Out. So we leave you with
Speaker 1: the band Making Movies playing live in our offices. This
Speaker 1: episode was produced by Gini Montalgo and edited by Miguel Marcias.
Speaker 1: It was mixed by Stephanie Lebau. That's it for today.
Speaker 1: The Latino USA team includes Julia Caruso, Jessica Ellis, Victori Estrada,
Speaker 1: Rinaldo Leanos Junior, Andrea Lopez Gruzsado, Luis Luna Gldimar Marquez,
Speaker 1: Marta Martinez, Mike Sergeant, Nor South, and Nancy Trujillo. Benilei
Speaker 1: Ramirez is our co executive producer, along with myself your
Speaker 1: host Mariano Rosa. Remember you can find Latino USA on
Speaker 1: your podcast feed and on our website, which is Latinousa
Speaker 1: dot org. We'll see you with extended versions of our
Speaker 1: stories every Friday and Sunday, So subscribe to Latino USA
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, Join us again on our
Speaker 1: next episode, and remember note and I'll see you on
Speaker 1: insta ram My.
Speaker 5: Latino USA is made possible in part by the Heisin
Speaker 5: Simons Foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibilities more at hsfoundation
Speaker 5: dot org. Latino USA is made possible in part by
Speaker 5: the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the
Speaker 5: Ford Foundation, working with visionaries on the frontlines of social
Speaker 5: change worldwide.
Speaker 1: The Latino USA team includes Mighel Massiels Really Again