Jamie Varley
Dirty Dancing By Myself
Listening to Blonde helps us momentarily escape and return to a world slightly more kind – not only from our surroundings but from ourselves
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TASTES & TONES
The Harmony Between Music and Food
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Proud I'm Proud of What I Am
Through quirky rhymes and left-field antics, 3 Feet High and Rising peacefully protested against oppression by empowering unconformity
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We Go, Go On Pretending
The Album Bloom A common theme among the albums featured on Tastes & Tones is their ability to transform and distort one’s sense of...
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Sleeping You'll Get Served with some Southern Hospitality
Proud and unapologetic, OutKast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik transports you to the drawl-filled, soul food inspired heart of the South.
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Who's Willing to Try?
The Album What’s Going On Cracks forming in the Vietnam War began spreading across the oceans and to the cities back home in the late...
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Fighting Fear and Pride for the Love Within Us
“Flying Colours” is a look back through a scrapbook of memories and experiences to remind us of all that we’ve overcome and all that we...
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Strange, But Not a Stranger
This experience distills the energy of a time period into a single moment, that brings endless joy to experience and experience again.
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I Understand Emotions are a Language
Featuring: Gatsby The Artist Gatsby “Who is Gatsby?” A pause. You can see the mind working behind the dreads shuttering out the glare of...
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Peace Is Something That Starts With Me
The Album Kids See Ghosts We all have our struggles. Each and every one of us have our “black dog”, a feeling of self-doubt or a...
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Watermelon Would Have Been The Easy Choice
The Album Head Hunters I will admit, jazz is the last great genre that I have yet to master. It is not due to the amount of time...
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Dripping Off The Meat Grinder
The Album Madvillainy DOOM and Madlib welcome you into their villainous world, a comic book universe filled with off-kilter references,...
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I Have Been a Mess of Late
The Album Future Me Hates Me This album rocks. It really does. The Beths’ debut LP Future Me Hates Me is a refreshing rock and roll...
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You Soothe My Aching Soul
The Album The Water[s] The 2010s was a burgeoning time for the hip hop scene. For years, online pirating of music led to countless...
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Let's Have a Toast for the Assholes
The Album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Fantasy is a look through stained glass into the darkest period in a jaded superstar’s...
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How Will You Know When Life Will Choose to Fade Away?
The Album Angel’s Pulse In the summer of 2019, Blood Orange was coming off his most cinematic release in the previous year’s Negro Swan,...
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Locked Down In This Cold, Cold World
The Album Liquid Swords GZA’s masterpiece Liquid Swords embodies the acceptance of paranoia always lurking in your periphery like a...
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Never In My Sweet Short Life Have I Felt Like This Before
The Album Earthones There are few albums I would want to act as the backdrop to my life than Bahamas’ Earthones. The clapping bass...
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The Kids Just Ain't Alright
Section.80 embraces a life full of flaws and contradictions, showing that acceptance is the first step towards change.
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I Want to Believe
Punisher is a peak into the diary of any partner or close friend you've ever hurt.
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We Talk It Over Continental Breakfast
Slow down and spend time focusing on the little things you enjoy in life with Lotta Sea Lice
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COMPLETING THE DINING EXPERIENCE
Think about your favourite meal growing up. A hearty spaghetti, a gooey grilled cheese, maybe a sweet and creamy cheese cake. What emotions did you feel eating it?
Think about your favourite album. Picture the music, but also the time of your life when that album was special to you. It could have been the soundtrack to high school, or when you fell in love, or that special summer that beats the rest.
Do you feel nostalgia? Warmth? Excitement? Loneliness?
Food and music pair in a special way. They both have the power to evoke emotion like nothing else. But can they bring out similar emotions?
The goal of Tastes & Tones is to find out. By pairing meals and albums that conjure similar emotions, dining and listening to music combine into a sensual experience like no other. All it takes is finding that match.
So don't just look at the pictures - cook the meals and play the albums. Doing so will satisfy all five senses and find a carnal harmony like never before.
These are just ideas - never hesitate to try your own creations. Be the chef and curator of your own experience!
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