Back in 2016, as I was unwinding for the day from my corporate IT job, I decided to try the Italian restaurant that was only four blocks away from my apartment in Uptown, South Minneapolis. D'Amico and Sons served up very sublime Italian pasta dishes, and the one I tried that I ate every time after that was the oven-roasted garlic shrimp pasta. Pure perfection.
One of the amazing things about this restaurant was that not only could you order wine with it — they had an option for all-you-can-drink house wine, either white or red. I preferred red. The ladies would come out with a fresh carafe and say, "You want some more?" and I was like, "Yes please."
One thing I needed as an essential tool for IT support was an iPad, which I'd never had before. One night I realized it had a program on there called GarageBand where you could make music. So I got into a routine of coming home a little tipsy from the Italian restaurant, firing up the iPad loops with a live microphone, and doing crazy improvisations. One of them blended Indian music with Western dance beats, and I called it "Temple And Club."
In 2025, when Suno was getting good, I fed that in as a cover, and it turned out great. I used Midjourney to make a music video for it showing an Indian woman who is sometimes in a dance club and sometimes in a temple, contrasting the two — I thought she would find both of them spiritual on some level.
The original was instrumental, and I tested out adding vocals in Suno. I wrote some lyrics: "I go to the temple, I go to the club. Both are so spiritual." I was amazed to hear an Indian woman's vocals added to my instrumental track.
Recently I made another Indian-themed video, Humid Heat, about the good and bad parts of arranged marriage, and how love transcends all cultures.
— Red Hector
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