Mitsuru Muraki is jamming on some unconventional percussion instruments: two round glass vases and a couple of pencils. He and another musician named Gabe Stern are writing a song together. As Muraki moves on to drumming on a metal bucket, a tall, dreadlocked young man pokes his head in the door.

“You guys recording in here?” he asks.

“Yeah, we sure are,” says Stern. “You make music?”

And just like that, another collaborator, Kris Luster, is added to the mix.

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