Reykjavík Grapevine - 09.10.2015, Blaðsíða 37

Reykjavík Grapevine - 09.10.2015, Blaðsíða 37
DINNER 6 COURSE MENU STARTS WITH A “REFRESHING“ SHOT OF THE NATIONAL SNAPS BRENNIVÍN FOLLOWED BY A BITE-SIZED TASTE OF PUFFIN OCEAN PERCH Slow cooked ocean perch, beetroot purée, spicy butter, serrano ham, beetroot MINKE WHALE Shallot vinaigrette, crispy Jerusalem artichokes SEA TROUT Yuzu mayo, truffle mayo, crispy quinoa, apple PLAICE Samphire, green asparagus, blood orange, lime beurre blanc RACK OF FREE RANGE ICELANDIC LAMB Lamb fillet, leeks, pickled onions, browned celeriac, baked carrots, spinach and dill cream Dessert by pastry chef Axel Þ. CHOCOLATE ROSE Chocolate mousse, raspberry gel, Sacher layer 7.990 kr. Austurstræti 16 101 Reykjavík apotek@apotekrestaurant.is ICELANDIC GOURMET MENU Freshly caught seafood and free range lamb – with a modern twist FROM 17:00 apotek.is Amtmannsstíg 1 • 101 Reykjavík • +354 561 3303 • www.torfan.is experience classical cuisine For six hours, we talked. He told me about the time his dad beat his testicle off, for example, and he also explained how he held women’s breasts prop- erly. He told me I had the devil in me, which was a surprising thing to hear from a man who had committed mur- der and served time on a chain gang. We drank moonshine, and we listened to our new friend T Model perform his raucous electric guitar and drum blues to a crowd of three dozen blues aficionados. The music was fascinat- ing—expressive to its core, exciting, full-throated. It is a night I will never forget, and having made countless bad decisions in life, I somehow came out of that night with a feeling of redemp- tion through art. Fearless ‘Road The Grapevine survived my bullshit better than I did. So it was years after my wanderings before I started to get my bearings. One night after a long day in an American office I shared with a collector of unicorn lamps and electric blankets, I met with the one DJ in America who was interested in my music. And he also loved T Model Ford. And he turned me on to the band GravelRoad. GravelRoad found Mr. T Model a little after I did, and they offered their services—this group of three earnest if exhausted blues fans helped T Model Ford put out his two best albums: ‘Ladies Man’ and ‘Taledragger’. As a backup band, they put T Model up front, playing tastefully, with heart, in a way very few bands have with a blues singer. They did that thing that great blues bands rarely do—they dropped their egos entirely to allow a (90-year- old!) frontman to genuinely cut loose. This isn’t the last thing GravelRoad did, nor probably the best thing they did. American music critics love them for ‘Psychedelta’ and their almost punk-infused ‘El Scuerpo’. But when I got the T Model records, I played them relentlessly. I had the strange experi- ence one night of explaining the im- portance of GravelRoad to an extreme- ly lubricated former office co-worker who was starting a record label. GravelRoad are now on a record la- bel with me. Since they signed to the label I’m on, they’ve released three full-length, more and more psyche- delic blues rock albums. They are fear- less. They are one of the few bands with the intelligence to touch the third rail of classic rock without turning into cliché. This October, GravelRoad will perform two shows in Reykjavík. If you’ve ever enjoyed the feeling of blues played through electric guitars, if that joy has been drained by overly rote performances by blues-by-num- bers Stratocaster-bearing individuals, I can’t recommend them more highly. Their music stands on its own, and it is joyous and clean and redeeming. And of course they’ve also helped one of the great bluesmen in history, a man who once spent six hours with an editor who sent this magazine into a crazed nosedive from which it some- how recovered. God bless those who helped T Model. 9
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