Stay Tranquilo - The Power of Music for our Mental State and How Cuartito Sessions is Evolving the World of Music?

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

In this episode of the Stay Tranquilo Podcast, powered by Stay Tranquilo Network, we are joined by a few members of the viral social media page Cuartito Sessions. Luis and Ricky join the podcast and we get into: - How Cuartito Sessions was founded? - How to start a music channel and what it entails to build it? - The power of music for our mental state - The landscape of Latino artists and the growth of the industry AND MORE Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Yeah, you know, like it's been cool because like that's part of the evolution how many people have just decided to trust the project and hop on Not really you know for the sake of wanting to see like a result, but just to be around something like that It's been really interesting and really cool that you know we've been able to stick around and you know Yeah, and it's also because like I feel like everyone like we gather together and like in the perfect place because each of us have really put like our skills to work into one thing so it's just not one person doing everything It's just like each of us have individually something to bring to the table. For something like that, there's a lot of moving parts. To have six, seven guys devoted to this, like you said, on a weekly basis, is a testament to what this really could have become

because it's not easy to have seven guys committed to something like that. There's power behind that. Like we said, we bring a different artist every week. So it's coordinating their time, making sure that they can do it at a certain time and a certain date and stuff. And then over time, we've seen how like we started kind of being the ones that wanted to reach out and the ones that, you know, and now we have all this huge, like this really interesting, cool community of different artists that are interested in coming in and doing it

and kind of just wanting to be a part of it. What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Stay Tranquido podcast. We're here with a few of the Guarito sessions guys, Ricky and Luis. and this is a long overdue conversation. I know I've talked to Nemo from your team a little bit and Nico Garcia, who I've known from high school. And I love what you guys are doing.

But I think I would love for you guys to, one, introduce yourselves, but also give a little bit of context and background into Guarito sessions as well. Definitely. You want to go first? You go first. Well, my name is Tricky. Also, my artist name is Henry Costa. I'm a musician for the Quartico.

I play for them guitar. I also do the PR and A&R as well. We've been together for quite a while, just trying to make music. You share an experience to build in a community here in Miami and having many different artists coming in and create an experience that we can all share the whole place, you know, pretty much. Absolutely. Yeah.

I'm Luis. I'm the drummer and the creative director for the project for the Quartito Sessions. like Enri said before, we've been together for about a year and some months now, just being steady, recording, bringing different artists. Basically, what we do is we bring a different singer into a studio every week. And we record songs that everybody loves, newer, older, and we give them another twist. We rearrange them.

That's what Nemo does. He's like basically our fearless leader in that time. He's very good at it. He's the kind of, he's the one that really started the project. He kind of put us all together. And yeah, we've been doing it for a while now. And it's brought us really good times. Absolutely.

I think that's, I think that's always the coolest thing when you start something like that. And you don't really have an intention really behind it besides like, hey, we like, in your case, music. We like to, you know, this is what we, what we enjoy. We enjoy our company. And then things start happening. afterthoughts right and you're like holy cow like yeah you don't really see what maybe might happen on the other side of it but you just know good times come from this it's it's really funny we legitimately the first couple or two or three times that we met we just we were just like let's make

something that doesn't really allow us to overthink like i think that the main the main thing that musicians especially if you you know think about your your craft or music in a certain way whatever it is you do like it can be you know video of just like anything you can make a subway sandwich and overthink it. And so, like, in our case, we just wanted to do something that allowed us to put something out consistently, that, like, every week we would have something new to share to our friends and the people that are close to us. And then it started just, you know, kind of getting bigger and bigger.

Like, we started with a very small setup. And then Nemo just out of, you know, out of his own. He just legitimately, he legitimately, I walked in the room one day. there was like a whole drum room in the room and stuff. So I don't know where. Yeah, just like one day. So he,

so what did he do? He built a set like in the garage or something or something. Like it's something in his house, right? He said something in his house. It's another room that's out of there, but basically it's turned into like the whole studio thing. And it has like this little props and like we actually,

we just keep on changing it. So like the project since it started up until now, it's really evolved a lot and I'm sure it's going to keep on evolving. But yeah, we have like the studio. We record over there. Sometimes I go and I record things for myself too. Oh, nice. And we have pretty much have everything.

So it's got those like sound, I guess, soundproof walls, everything. It's essentially a recording studio, right? Pretty much, yeah. At this point. Yeah, it's a home studio. It's basically us too. Ricky's Enri is on guitar. I'm on drums.

Nemo, he plays piano and he does, you know, the arrangements for the songs. We have our bass player Tian. We have our guitar player Chris Padron. And Nico, he's our director and, you know, videographer and kind of takes care of the look and feel of the whole project. And then we have our engineer Juan Montenero, who's like, I've known for a long time from Nicaragua also. I'm from Nicaragua. And then, yeah, you know, like, it's been cool because, like that's part of the evolution. How many people have just decided to trust the project and hop on?

Not really, you know, for the sake of wanting to see like a result, but just to be around something like that. It's been really interesting and really cool that, you know, we've been able to stick around and, you know. Yeah, and it's also because like I feel like everyone, like we gather together and like in the perfect place because each of us have really put like our skills to work into one thing. So it's just not one person doing everything. It's just like each of us have individually something to bring to the table, which makes the whole thing work perfectly. Like a possible that's like very well fit. Oh, for something like that, it's, there's a lot of moving parts. I mean, one, the space.

Like, that to me is already a monster obstacle in itself for someone that, you know, wants to do it and do it well and right, right? And then it's, like you said, finding the personnel of people that are one willing to do it and make that commitment, right? Because one thing is like you show up one day and you do it, right? Then you maybe show up one week. And then it becomes like, hey, I can't today, but maybe in a couple weeks, we'll do it again. And then that's how it just fades away.

To have the, you know, six, seven guys devoted to this, like you said, on a weekly basis, is a testament to what this really could have become because it's not easy to have seven guys committed to something like that. Yeah. It's, there's power behind that. Yeah. And also, like, by doing that, another thing that's like, kind of we've decided the big pillar of the project is going to be or like something that's just really important for all of us. It's just like, like we said, we bring a different art. every week. So it's, you know, coordinating their time, making sure that they can do it at a certain time and a certain date and stuff. And then over time, we've seen how like we started kind of being the ones that wanted to reach out and the ones that, you know, and now we have all this huge, like this really interesting, cool community of different artists that are interested in coming in and doing it and kind of just wanting to be a part of it. Again, besides all the rest of what it could come from it, you know? So it's just a very kind of pure approach. 100%. So how did the name Guartito Sessions come about?

It's made it. We're recorded on Quartito. Yeah. Pretty much. So you guys was just there in the room and you're like, you know what? This is Guartheito sessions. Yeah. It's just, yeah. I mean, when I mean, I helped out. I really didn't think there was much to it, but I wanted to feel. When you guys, you guys are definitely going to be there. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to see literally like everybody, the first thing they say it's like, oh, it looks way bigger on camera. I'm like, you know, you know. Exactly. Exactly. That's crazy. That's cool. No one expects it. Like, everyone gets like so shocked when they get in. It does look pretty big on the camera. So I'm curious what it looks like now.

Yeah. So now, how long have you guys been doing this? For a little more than a year, right? A year and I'd say four months. Wow. That's awesome. Yeah. I mean, if you guys haven't seen it yet, it is an amazing page.

I came across it. And I always, you know, when I started stay tranquil, I always saw a vision where, music and like the stay Tranquilo name always kind of match, right? Because I do think music is a form of finding your tranquil like I like to say. Right.

Right. I think that's where you can really disconnect. There's a million different genres that can resonate based on how you're feeling in that moment where you're, whether you're writing a high in life, right? And you know, you're just at that place and you want to celebrate and you want to put that music that's going to

make you feel that. You could put that on. Or you could be at a low and you're sad as hell. And you find a playlist that's going to work for that, right? And it's like music, whatever, angry, sad, whatever it is, you're going to find something. And it's just going to enhance that feeling. But in a way that at the end of the day, just makes you feel better, right? Whether you're feeling down, you're feeling good. Like, you're still going to be elevated from it at some capacity.

And that's to me why I think music is something that's powerful. And it brings people together, right? I mean, look at concerts, right? All these people are there to see that one artist and they're there next to us. stranger, they have their arm around them, or they're singing that song at the top of their lungs. Like, music to me is one of the most powerful things. I think it's like up there. I'm a big sports guy. I think sports also does that because that camaraderity where you're next to somebody and you're rooting for the same person, or if you're not, you're back and forth at each other, right? But it brings

out that emotional side that a lot of people don't tap into. And music does that. It does. And again, like, something that we could have never expected, not only from this, but just like in general, like you said, a cool, one thing that I think is really cool and that we all think is really cool about that project is that we're not really tied to a genre. Like, we've done everything from like salsa to like punk rock and stuff. We've done everything and that's another thing that keeps it exciting for us because we're really tied to either a song or something. We just kind of, we move very quickly. We just have to. That's kind of the thing about not being able to over.

we're thinking, we just true that. We have a result to get to and adapt and what is it? Improvise Adap overcome. Yeah, improvised adapt to overcome. It really is like that. You have to be innovative with what you do. Like whenever you choose a song, you have a singer and then we try to like obviously change the genre of it so the singer can like go into and like, you know, do what they have

to do. And it's just part of the process. It's just like the creative side of like changing things, which is the main thing of a quartet too, just like grabbing one son and then turn into something else. as Louis said before. Absolutely. And that's like the cool part about it, which is also a challenge because you're like, okay, we get there and we're like, all right, we have to like do this now.

We don't even know where we're going to do it. It's just like getting there a couple hours before and then working on it. And we'll see how it goes. I do think there's power in that. Like you said, like the non-overthinking thing because sometimes if you think about it too much, you're almost going to like gravitate away from what it is that you really want to think because you start thinking like, oh, but you know what, we heard this or we saw this there.

maybe we want it like this, this way, and then you start changing too much, and then it's not the product that you end up going. Whereas if you don't think about it, you're just... You go with a flow. It's going to come out as natural and as organic as possible, which I think that's what you want in that setting, right? You're not recording a music video. That's not what it is.

Right. And it's also kind of made us have to get comfortable with mistakes a lot. And, you know, I think it's an interesting parallel. Now you mentioned sports. It's like, you have to kind of, you have to kind of search for. that result by all means possible. Like in sports is kind of like that. It doesn't really have matter how you win as long as you win. Right. So it's like we end up, we win by being able to keep going and to, you know, stay sort of, you know, together and not, you know, not necessarily

crumbled, but not necessarily take the results too personal. Some of us, you know, we show up there and exactly like a team, we show up. One of us has like an off week one day. And some of us are, you know, kind of. So it's cool. It's. It's. It's cool. It's like we get to experience that part of music, which is not really common like that. I don't think at least in bands. No, and it's really cool because like what I feel that each of us has like, we all have come from like different genres of music. So like for example, I come a lot from like jazz and R&B and the thing.

Louis comes along from like rock and stuff. The other guitar is coming from like classical music, the pianists, you know, like each of us have like different things. So like when it comes to like making the arrangements and everything, we each put like a piece of like we know into it. So the bigger picture is like a whole mixture of different things that at the end of the day comes out like really good, you know, doing really nice. And if I can, and if I can, I want to throw a special shout out to Nico because Nico is legitimately the person that will come up with the, just the one idea that none of us are thinking about and like he'll nail it every, like, his ideas are always like great.

Even though he's like, he not necessarily is playing with us all the time. He's a great tax player. I was going to say. He's also a sack. Good singer, great singer too. Great. I knew he could root the sax. Don't tell him I told you.

Yeah, but it's cool. Like, legitimately, we are always surprised about what happened. Even if everything's planned out, we always walk out of there as a farce. I think having like that many heads is a good thing. Because I mean, even when I was doing this, like, the biggest struggle for me was like, I have a good idea, but how can I validate that it's a good idea without talking to somebody about it, right? or even vice versa this is a bad idea right

no do not do that but when you have multiple heads you could feed off of each other because not that a good idea probably is going to turn into an even better idea because now your perspective is going to come in their perspective is going to come in and then you're going to be like okay yeah we're going to do this

and that's a good idea but we should do it this way because of this reason or whatever right and then boom that's like where that I think the magic happens which again I think that team is huge. Yeah. And you guys obviously have done an amazing job.

Thank you. It's definitely shown. I love it. I mean, whatever reminds me of is like Tiny Desk NPR. You know like that vibe. It's literally like the elevator pitch, like every time we talk to somebody about it and we want to talk about it in less than, you know, five, five sentences.

Like think about Tiny Dex, but a Miami version. Right. That's exactly the vibe that it gives me. Literally that's right. I'm like, dude, this is sick. Like this is long overdue one. and two, NPR was like one of my favorite things growing up. And like the concept of it was so cool because it exposed artists in a way.

I don't think exposed is the right word, but it displayed artists in a way that you would never even know, right? It showed a side of them that you're like, holy shit. Like the T. I don't know, have you guys ever seen the T-Pen? Yes. Yeah. The T-Pen is crazy. Below my line.

Below is my line. I don't like, this is a guy that made his career off of Autotune. And then you see him sing there and you're like, ooh, that's not T-Pain. And you're like, he then like comes out, you know, mentioning it, which is why I think this is cool, which I'll get back to that point. But he mentions like, oh, I got an Autotune because Autotune was different at the time. And it was kind of like the new wave. And it was the new wave. I mean, God damn, Travis Scott ended up doing it and everybody does it now to this day.

But he did it in a very different way. And obviously he became T-Pain because of it. But you're seeing this other side of T-Pain, they're like, holy cow, this guy has a cool voice. But I think that's the cool component of it, right? You have the aspect of you're showing an artist in a way that you've never seen before in a setting that's very organic and raw. But then, too, you can then now showcase a story, right? And be like, this is T-Pain, why he became T-Pain, but also like, this is also who he is if you didn't know, which I think is cool. Because you become a fan of these artists and, you know, the millions of the things.

downloads that they get, there's going to be people that are big fans, right? The couple hundred thousand people that now want to be like, but I want to know more about T-Pain, or I want to see the undiscovered stuff of this artist, which I grew up always like, you know, obviously the mainstream stuff is always cool, but I always wanted to find like the stuff. The hidden things. Yeah, exactly, which is cool. And artists make so much music that so much of it is just never discovered. Yeah. No, and it's cool because like I also feel like whenever we bring a singer, we're kind of putting them in like in the another comfort zone. Right. Because like I mean it's a different genre, it's something completely different than they're doing. So like that's

when it comes to where you're saying like we're putting like in a different setting, something else, where you see the artist showcasing another part of their talent. Yeah. Or we're like something like not used to for them saying or anything like that. And now like in the last sessions like probably coming, you know, a couple months ago, we started taking like little capsule interviews, you know, asking a couple questions. What do you think about the session? How did you, you know? And we found out super great, cool, interesting details, one of our singers that was there,

Mafeit. She was like, oh, you know, I'm doing this thing. Can I say, I don't know if I can say it, but, you know, I'm in the voice. She ends up being a voice finalist. Oh, wow. You know, like, just, you know, these kind of like stories that are like, you know, are more than just us, I think. They're more than a room with people.

It's just like this way to connect with another human being. And there's so many amazing artists that like we are not aware of. And I'm sure people that are out there are looking for their new kind of obsession artist thing. And they maybe can get to it through us. So that's kind of like a cool power to have, you know, sort of showcasing not only ourselves, but like, you know, a bigger kind of pool of people that are striving for a career. It's a part of like creating the community. Yeah.

Community is big for that. 100%. And for them too, it's a different piece of content that they're not used to maybe having on their, you know, on their socials, right? It's a unique way to display them in a way you're like, because everyone, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but like in that space, you're always going to want to like, you know, portray yourself in a certain way and have a certain, you know, persona and, you know, have that personal brand, I guess you could say, right? Right. But when you're in that room, it's like, all. egos left outside the door like we're just here to make music and just and vibe right like that's super organic that like that to me is the way and it comes off that way too which is which is good because

you see people and it's like especially when you're aspiring like if you're a big artist you can essentially do whatever the hell you want because you've already built that that reputation right but aspiring people like there's always going to be a a big sense of judgment I guess that comes around but you're in that room and there's no judgment because it's like we're all here for the same reason and it's just we're just you're making music like that's as simple as that yeah definitely yeah and and again like we feel like the the way that that the project started the first couple weeks that we've met the idea that we are here now it's like it literally boggles our mind we got a shout out for from an amazing artist franco deita he's from unizuelan he's like a

legend to us and we did a medley with another artist jonathan molli we you know we made like a medley of his songs, but we again, rearranged them all, and he ended up shouting us out. So that's like, that's huge. I can tell my mom about that. Yeah, I told my whole family. We're like, what? Holy, how what? Yeah. No, it's like, it's literally, all of it is, is a, we're really enjoying the journey. And we're hoping to do many more things, but we're not attached to the results as much

as we're enjoying the process of making. Exactly. Yeah, we were talking about it a little bit before, like the, the component of the fact that like, when you do these things, you really have no idea who's going to see it, which crazy because then you have a guy like that reaching out to you saying like hey i like this and then sharing it on top of it you're like it's like a surreal moment it is it's crazy it's like when i saw it was like what yeah we were we were freaking let's just say the the group chat freaked out yeah yeah yeah yeah check check it off the box of like a one you know one story to tell

forever exactly and the griscious things like we aim for that to happen and that when it actually happened we're just like holy shit yeah yeah like fuck. Exactly. Even when even when you have a plan sometimes it's just good to be surprised by the good stuff instead of you know. That's a cool part of it too. Yeah. That's the fun part about it. So now that you guys have had a little bit of traction, you know, and you guys have momentum, you guys have built a cadence of like how you're producing it. What's kind of like the vision for Guarito sessions? How do you guys see it continue to grow? And where would you guys ultimately like to take it, I guess? Well, it's definitely, as I was saying, before, it's like the evolution of things.

Like, we're progressing. We record the first season. We're now working on our second season. We even kind of, like, rebuild the whole room a little bit. We switched things from places. And we're pretty much going to keep doing the same thing, bring in different artists, bringing in bands as well. We want bands to, like, come and, like, do covers with their sound. We throw events sometimes.

We did a jam with our friends from. with our friends from Creative Mondays. That was really nice. I'm on super close. I was going to go to the one that you guys had at Tripping Animals. That's the one. Yeah, I was going to go and I forget what. Oh, on the way there, I had just gotten in a new phone, right?

Oh, my God. And something happened that with a SIM card or something like that. So I'm in the middle of my driving and then I press something on the new phone. And whatever I did basically reset it and set everything back to my old phone. phone. So now I was like phoneless. Honestly, this is terrible because it's like, God damn, we're that dependent on our phones. But I was just like more freaked out about the fact I'm like, bro, where the flip is all my data? Like, where did everything go? I'm about, I think I was about to pick him up. Yeah. I was about to pick him up. And then I'm like, dude, I got to go back home.

There's something going on with my phone. I have no idea. Yeah. Yeah. So I had to be, I was on the phone with Verizon for like 30 minutes and by the time I got a result I think it was like 10 o'clock and I'm like yeah so well we definitely be there for the next one yeah which is fun of yeah it's literally like I'm not sure when this is out but we're having one on May 27th and um in winwood oh okay yeah so uh which is like a great another great great place just where we've been able to build some community and and meet artists and stuff but you guys are more than welcome you know invited to you guys should definitely come like out this one too next Saturday the 27 yeah yeah yeah that's July 27th right yeah I'm out of I'm gonna be

out of town man all right next one next one next one I literally get back that night at like midnight and he gets back on next year yeah but oh yeah I'm working it back but but yes for sure the next one on a thousand percent. I won't be there for sure. But it's cool. The live event stuff is dope too because you get to actually be there in person with like the audience side of things. Yeah. You know, people that probably consume the content, but now you get to see them in like real life and they get to see you guys in real life. And it's cool because a lot of the singers are like musicians that we invited before. They also go and like it's like they love the project. So they go all the time and they perform too. When we had the other jam, they did the same thing.

And we always encourage people or new musicians to come and it's just like, yeah, we'll play our sets, we'll jam, we do our thing, but it's also like, hey, you want to come and play saxophone or you want to play guitar? Like, dude, we might guess, just jump here. It's just part of the whole thing, you know. We're just like pretty much building, as I said, before we're like community, you know, like this, we have a lot of musicians, a lot of artists, people that want to get into the scene.

And like, at the end of the day, the Miami scene, it's really nice because I feel like a lot of people are like very friendly. So that's like the cool part about it, that everyone just like wants to participate in it. It's, it's fun. The reason I laugh at that is because. not a lot of people say that Miami people are friendly. Musician-wise. I know.

But what I want to go with that is that it shows like in your guys' world, that's probably the case, right? Like, it's just down-to-earth people that are not caught up in the Miami scene, essentially, right? Where most people are that fall on that side of the category that are not necessarily the nicest people out there. But there are cool people out there. And you just got to find, like I say, find your tribe, right? Like, people, people are out there. We met, like, two, like, a couple of our, you know, most coolest collaborators through that last jam.

We actually picked the last, the one of the, you know, a singer through that jam. It ended up doing, you know, we ended up doing that one, really great session. And then this next one, we're kind of doing the same thing because that's kind of the point. Like, the point is to keep opening up to, and, you know, passing the mic. And hopefully through that niceness, meet other cool, nice people. And just, you know, keep the ball rolling. Yeah. You discover a lot of talent that way too.

Absolutely. You're going to find someone. You're like, holy cow. Even people that don't put themselves, that's the other thing. Not everyone puts themselves out there on social media. And then all of a sudden they show up to something like that. And you're like, holy moly, where the hell have you been? You know?

Yeah, yeah. There's tons of talent out there. And it also happens with a lot of singers, like, like, whatever musicians, they don't have to pay for a band. You know, it's a lot of money. You know, no. It's a lot. That's very true. So like, we're willing to be like, okay, let's see what you got.

Let's jam it out. Let's taste of water, you know? And then that's a cool part of it. Absolutely. So the next question I actually have for you guys, because I want to go back to the music, but I want to ask you this question first because I want to curious, and I'm sure the audience will enjoy this as well. But obviously this is a big project that you guys work on, but do you guys have full-time jobs on the side? And if you do, how do you job?

both of those at the same time. Well, pretty much like everything that's music related is usually after five. Yeah, right. Yeah. So that's a pretty good point right there. It's like you can do like 9 to 5 if you want, 9 to 6, whatever, and you'll still be fine. Yeah. Because like not, I mean, music things do happen like in the afternoon, but not that much, you know, so.

But majority of it's usually in the evening. Yeah, like the musician's schedule is always at night. it's always at night. That's true. In that world, I could see that. Yeah. Yeah, you always work in, like, being studios until like 4 or 5 a.m.

You know. Yeah, that's true. Exactly. Yeah. Enri, there's a lot of writing, producing. I am actually in design, videography. So it's kind of, it does still overlap.

Of course. That's another reason why, like, you know, making the project was a little simpler because everything is in house. Like, you know, when it comes surrounding, I just, I do it. So, right. And same, like, everybody that's there,

uses what they do outside of there to kind of contribute a little bit. And then it goes back because this also helps us to like, okay, it's a Sunday. We do end up work pretty much working all Sunday. But it's like a cool thing to do. So you go back to the week with like that little bit of, you know, a little bit of, yeah. Yeah, a refreshment. 100%. You enjoy what you do so doesn't really feel so much like work, I guess.

Exactly. Yeah. And going back to your last question, like I think a dream for all of us is to actually be able to scale this to a point where this becomes like the main thing for all of us. Even if it is just like a part of the main thing that we do, but we want to expand to however many different corners that we can, like if it becomes, you know, hanging out with talent or it becomes, you know, all that stuff, we are differently interested in that.

Of course, yeah. No, the goal is, of course, is do this full time, right? Like that's always the dream. And if I think in a perfect world, it's doing what you love. And if you can make money on top of it, hell yeah. You know, like that's the dream. So it's, but it's like the baby steps along the way. Obviously we want to get from here to here super fast,

but we gotta get to here to here first before you can get there. Yeah, absolutely. No, I feel like the process is like the coolest part of it, honestly. Yeah. Yeah. Or at least for me, that's what I enjoy the mosque. It's like I see, I see the growth and it's really cool to see like when we started. It's been a year and we're already like doing, I think, big things. Absolutely.

And then like, it's just going to keep on coming and coming. coming. So I feel like that's a cool part of it. Absolutely. So you guys have now been in the music space doing these events and all that out there. What have you guys seen, I guess, between a lot of the artists that you've worked with, like in today's, I guess, industry and in the music space. Like, is there more aspiring musicians than before? Like, do you see more of that? Do you see less? Like, what does that world look like today? I think, I think, so, like, between the artists that we have,

work with or the people that we aspire to work with that are already in our circle. Right. We see a lot of support actually. Like a lot of support. Like everybody's kind of rooting for each other. And then every time we meet somebody new, they have this like sense of, oh yeah, this is awesome. So let me see how I can help.

But in terms of us being able to see if there's more or less, I don't think we are able to actually like see if there's more. Right. But we do feel our silk circle kind of always expanding. Like, we do feel that that. that and especially a lot of support in this in the space but not too sure if there's a lot of artists out there essentially but there's tons of support you're saying no i mean i mean there's for sure there's a ton of artists yeah um we definitely do get hit up by like a ton of artists a whole

time now the things like we're just going to change our like seeking process a little bit now it it goes through the thing where like we decide right we're going to bring the singer we're going to bring the singer and i like we choose it pretty much there but there's definitely a lot of artists. And are they a lot of Latino artists or are they, is it a lot of many? Especially in Miami. Yeah, I mean, considering that it's Miami, I figured there'd be a lot. Yeah. We end up working with a lot of them too. Like, a lot of them just and and they're like, I think it's, to me it's really cool that the fact that a lot of them are gunning for that like Latino space, you know, like, I mean, not money is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The biggest artists in

the world. Like all these are the biggest artists in the world. So it makes sense from like a business standpoint also but it's cool that everybody's kind of like also excited about sharing that side of that musical kind of heritage i guess if you could say because yeah definitely because a lot of them like you know there's a lot of us that are you know either coming here or have been here for a long time but our family is from somewhere else and we have that sort of one foot here one foot there type of experience yeah they always they all want to bring their roots yeah they all want to be their identity into it yeah yeah it makes it makes sense it's home you know you know that's what you're familiar with.

Do you guys have a favorite genre of music that you prefer to listen to? Um, damn. Tough question. It depends on my mood. It's a mood. I love jazz and like R&B. I listen to that a lot, but, but it really depends on my mood. Like, I can be listening to that and then listen to a sleep nut.

Yeah. And then like Paganini, like something like that. It can go all over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same. I can be listening.

Like, I love rock music and stuff like that. Like that's the, the musical space. that I've worked on for the most, but I love hip hop. I love, you know, just, it's impossible to, I don't think there's music that you can't like. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, but. I agree. I agree.

It's almost like, you're gonna listen to it at one point. Yeah, yeah. And I think it's very dependent on not only your mood, but also like the cycles of life too. Yeah, like the younger I was, like I definitely consumed a ton more hip hop, right? Now, not so much. And if it is hip hop, it's a very different style of hip hop.

right. So I think it also like it's just you're always cycling through it. And then of course while you're also cycling through it, there's a new wave of artists that are rolling through. So I just think there's a constant evolution, not only like on the artist side, but like on the listening side of it. It's always changing.

What are you listening to right now? So it depends. I'm a very big like reggae guy. So I just listen to a ton of reggae. I do. I do enjoy country. music a lot. I'm a big country music guy. And then

old school hip hop, I would say, is my top, you know, like top three. And then after that, it floats. You know, I like the Spanish music, but I'm not into like the Raghetone as much. If I'm out there, different. That's what I was

going to say. But I'm like, but if I'm in the car, like I'm not going to just break Rhegaton. Yeah, exactly. Some people are like that. Like that. I know, a ton of people are like, like, all they listen to. to it's how I get on 24-7. I'm not one of those people, but I appreciate it in the right moments. I'm more of like a Carlos Vives style, like if I'm going to listen to that. I like that more like, I don't know, it gives me like that more like vibey Latino.

Yeah, it's of the mood. Exactly. Exactly. So yeah, but again, I'm very similar to you guys. Like I'll listen to a little bit of everything. Right, right. Yeah, it all depends of the space where you're out if I'm like, I don't know if I want to go party, like I don't I'm not going to come out of it. A classical music on the way out. That's cool. Well, I'm really excited. I think we're going to do a lot of fun projects together.

I think the Tranquilo and music that we were saying has a lot of synergy. So we're definitely excited to see what other things we can do. Even maybe showcasing some of the artists' stories that you guys have on. I think it would be super cool piece of content. And yeah, I think music is one of the things that makes the world go around. You know, without music, the world is not a better place. Like, we need music. We need it.

100%. So we're definitely excited. And we thank you guys for coming on. Thank you for invited. Of course. Long overdue, for real. So if you guys want to mention where they could find you, obviously, we'll tag everything. But I'll take over.

Yeah. Yeah. So you guys can find us at El Quartito Sessions, right? That's our YouTube page. That's our Instagram page for Enri. You can find him at Enri Costa. For me, I'm Louis B. Drums on Instagram. But just like, it would be cool.

Look, our piano player is Nehemias underscore O. Right. There's kept in focus. That's our boy, Nico. There's Art of Pian. That's our bass player. And he's awesome. He's an awesome, actually, awesome plastic artist.

He's a painter too. Chris is CA Padron. Padron and you can find us all on Instagram for sure but if you follow the Quartito you'll be able to find all our links and just follow the page and you know be aware like we'll definitely we'll be around I like it hell yeah we're excited so thanks guys for tuning in and we'll see you guys on the next one so later