AMBASSADOR’S ARTICLE
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usic & whisky. Malt and music. I’ve long been fascinated about the relationship between music and whisky. For those who don’t know me outside of the whisky game, I’m also a musician. I’m a trumpet player, which was and still is a huge part of my journey thus far. I grew up listening to Hakan Hardenberger playing the Haydn Trumpet Concerto, then later it was Arve Henriksen recordings that warped my mind. Through university, it was artists like Aphex Twin, John Zorn, Fennesz, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Derek Bailey (no relation) or Gastr del Sol that widened my soundscape. The widening of my flavour journey would come later on after I’d stopped buying cheap blends and instant pasta. I like to think flavour does the same thing to us as music can. Flavours in spirit that can make us go “oh wow, I never knew that existed” much in the same way music can. They can take us on a journey into the unknown, into the realm of discovery.
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