– Note: Although I would like you to read the story first and then play the music, I am including a link to the music here Here 

About 10 years ago, I wrote a prose that after all this time came back to me by itself. I was dreaming a few days ago, like every night, and it appeared in the middle of my dream without a reason, like a TV commercial, and reminded me of that text that I titled “The scent of Havana”

After the dream, the idea of writing a song about the Havana subject, which is now a pre-teen at its 10 years of age, was planted in my head. I had to put some Caribbean music on those unstructured ideas and make them dance.

I did not dislike the task at all, on the contrary, the only problem was to find a time to make those sensations, now 10 years old, somehow return to my senses. As if it were so easy to put the sensations in the freezer to use them at some point in the future! No, I had to close my eyes, immerse myself in the heat of the memories for about a couple of hours and bring them back. This is not particularly easy when you’re at work.

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