Sunday

Music...needed

When working in the kitchen, the rhythm of pans and simmering stocks and the knives has a relaxing affect when it gets to a certain point. A kind of zen is achieved when the whole kitchen comes together in a beautiful cacophony of thuds and hisses, claps and clicks.
But sometimes outside influences help the kitchen go into high gear, especially when downtimes are upon us and that we are relegated to the tedious tasks of peeling 20 kilos of potatoes and skinning 2 cases of garlic.
I was born in the 70s, enjoyed in the 80s, loved the 90s. And my one valuable link to these years is the radio, when certain radio stations on certain days play music from those eras that kind of push me to grabe the knife and start slicing onions julienne like crazy.
On Wednesdays Wave 89.1 is on its Way Back Wednesdays Program, playing great music from the 80s and 90s, mostly R&B.
On Fridays Magic 89.9 brings me back to my time in High School, when they used to play these great dance tunes and those songs that just tug at your heart strings.
On Saturday and Sunday I listen to Campus 99.5. the songs you don't hear on the other two stations are available for your audible pleasure for 48 hours.
On other days XFM 92.3 please great slow music, even an ecclectic collection of Jazz. Lovely.
I tune in to these stations at the kitchen, because it's upbeat, it's invigorating. And it reminds you of where you came from.

What is your music preference? What do you listen to on the way to work?

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