Since Balanta has a somewhat surrealistic quality to it, from the western audience’s perspective at least, I wanted to capture that on my track. I decided I would go with a piano composition layered with synths, all drenched in reverb. I started with a simple two-chord piano progression, F – C, to which I added a two-chord bridge, F – Em. I kept playing around with this progression until I developed it into an odd-feeling composition by throwing an Fm chord in the mix. I don’t like to brag but I have no choice, this is one of the best piano pieces that I’ve written.