Past Programs
Film and Soundtracks - 2008
Chris Abrahams
01/09/2008
Chris Abrahams is a pianist with a unique, dulcimer-like sound and a left-of-centre vision which he applies to his soundtrack to the film The Tender Hook which features Hugo Weaving singing Dylan and Cohen like a music hall entertainer.
When Hugo tackles I’m Your Man and Ballad of a Thin Man with a Tiny Tim-like brio, the CD is thrown deepest into 1920s Sydney where the film is set in a time when the Sydney Harbour Bridge was being built, political parties were forming and underworld crime had a powerful grip on the city. Otherwise, Chris avoids a jazz-based sound even though he does use banjo and trumpet in his instrumentation. As you would expect from the co-founder of visionary trio The Necks, Chris’ sonic textures and conceptions are distinctive and compelling.
