“Another Red Train” by Silver Speakers

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

Silver Speakers does Handsome Furs acoustic style!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

While working on the new “Silver Speakers” record, I took a break to record these covers from the latest Handsome Furs record, “Sound Kapital.” The songs are “Memories of the Future,” which I think really compliments and resonates with the themes I’m exploring on the new Silver Speakers record, “Never Was,” and “Cheap Music,” which I think is an anthem for New Music as we know it/create it today.

Let me know what you think, the “sound” is similar to what I’m approaching for “Never Was” as well, kind of like a low-key acoustic take, instead of the dusty/smokey atmosphere of last year’s “Iceland.”

Photos from San Francisco

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

This summer I traveled to SF for a short vacation on the West Coast, and here’s a collection of photos I took from the city, Muir Park and a variety of coffee joints. Click here to check out the highlights.

Fried Mackerel with Apple, Bacon and Celeriac

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

This is Scandinavian cooking entry number two, again featuring another beautiful piece of fish bought from “Hooked” in Leslieville in Toronto, and again inspired by “New Scandinavian Cooking” chef Andreas Viestad. The dish is actually meant for Herring, but good luck finding it in the GTA — even just the frozen kind. Mackerel was the perfect substitute… we also had to substitute rutabaga in for turnips. Basically we fried up bacon, added in celeriac and rutabaga and fried it up, then took it out of the pan and combined it with diced carrot, apple and parsley. The fish was salted and peppered, as well as given a coating of mustard, then fried in the bacon grease (is your mouth drooling yet?) and once it was seared on both sides, plated and piled with the roots. Check out NewScanCook for the details. I’m looking forward to making this again.

Cold smoked Trout Mille Feuille

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

Here’s the result of a recent Scandinavian cooking experiment, creating Cold smoked Trout Mille Feuille, according to Andreas Viestad from “New Scandinavian Cooking.” It’s made with Smoked Trout from Leslieville’s new fish market, “Hooked,” pear, cucumber, celeriac, horse radish and a tortilla shell (next time we’ll have to track down some Lefse in Toronto). It also gave me some more practice with the Thor Bjørklund cheese planer my partner picked up for me from our friends at Mjolk. (Seriously, that planer takes practice, but it’s the greatest vegetable/fruit skinner and slicer ever)

I think I piled everything too thick on there, so I didn’t get a nice, neat little roll out of it, and one tortilla’s worth of rolls was perfect as a dinner entre, even though these are meant to be appetizers. But I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the Celeriac (celery root), and I wouldn’t hesitate to use it again.

Watch the video of how to make this here!

Voices of Conquest

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

In continuing with the run of music posts lately, I wanted to share the following track, “Oh Yes My Lord” by the Voices of Conquest. First of all, how great of a group name is that? Secondly, you have to listen to this: it’s simply a vocal group doing their thing with a really banging percussionist. It’s on the album “Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal,” which is loaded with amazing, funky, experimental gospel. If I had any talent for vocal arrangement, I would put together an EP of worship music like this. Mind-blowing.

Jimmy Hotz – Beyond the Crystal Sea

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Tyrone Warner

Inspirado, thy has struck again, and your name be JIMMY HOTZ. This is exactly why I love the internet, the obscurities of the past are the treasures of today, unrestrained by physical copy… just the desire to have ideas live on. As you can see, I’m already getting overtly influenced by Jimmy Hotz and his singular epic, “Beyond the Crystal Sea,” a psychedelic opus of early “Christian Rock” that is more King Crimson than Stephen Curtis Chapman, if you know what I mean. I can’t even begin to describe how awesome this is… just do yourself a favour, and grab this from iTunes or wherever.