“Our goal is to break the design flaw,” says Daniel Hernandez Pinto, bassist for the Vancouver-based band, Empanadas Ilegales. Hernanadez Pinto and Daniel Ruiz, two members of their nine piece ensemble, had met me virtually; I was sun soaked in Jalisco practicing my Spanish when we arranged to meet. They made me miss Vancouver, meeting me with the kind of warmth needed in a city still raining on the precipice of June.