What an appropriate illustration for the role of a barista to compare it to salt – a key ingredient in bringing out flavor in food, yes, coffee. The below champ and five other competing baristas gathered in Seattle Washington for the finals of the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s Northwest Regional Barista Competition. Five baristas used coffee whose origin stories reigned as prince and princess, and one reigned as King.
Their music invited viewers in to linger and at times, bop as a barista, behind the bar does. Now, the set lists of our Northwest regional barista champ and his accompanying baristi, as smdlr was able to hear and curate it.
CHAMP
Devin Chapman
1.“Voodoo”
Frank Ocean
2.“Pryamid
Frank Ocean
3. “Freedom”
Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton
second.
Cole McBride
Visions Espresso / Velton’s Coffee Roasting
1.“Invitation”
Michael Reisman
2.“Lucid Train”
Blackmill
3.“Васютка”
Туши Свет
4.“Midnight Ciy”
M83
third.
Collin Schneider
1.“Real Slow”
Megafaun
2. “Too Old to Die Young”
Brother Dege aka Dege Leg
3.“Bloodhound”
The Donkeys
4. “Dissolve Me”
Alt J
fourth.
Brett Felchner
1.“Bangarang”
Odometer
2.“He Tells Himself He’s Happy”
Michael Franks
3.“How We Land”
4. P.O.S.
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
fifth.
Timothy Graham
1.“Black Hills”
Gardens & Villas
2.“Written in Reverse”
Spoon
3.“Here, There and EveryWhere”
The Beatles
4.“Surfer King”
A.A. Bondy
5.“Black Hills”
Gardens & Villas
6. “The Whirring”
The Joy Formiddable
sixth.
Lauren Lathrop
1. Gypsy
Gardens & Villa
2. R.I.P. Burn Face
CocoRosie
3. A Change is Gonna Come
Otis Redding
4. NOW
Deep Sea Diver