1 September 2008
Chris Abrahams
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Chris Abrahams
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.
Playlist
Playlist
1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)
1422
CD Cut 1 - 'After the Bridge'
Chris Abrahams
Assume APRA/AMCOS
Vitamin (pre-release copy, no catalogue number)
Chris Abrahams - 'The Tender Hook Soundtrack'
3:41
(Austral comp and perf: Chris' piano and keyboard sounds, Carl Dewhurst's guitar and Phil Slater's trumpet in moody piece.)
Segue
1426
CD Cut 2 - 'I'm Your Man'
Leonard Cohen, arr by Hugo Weaving and Chris Abrahams
Pub Not Spec
Vitamin (pre-release copy, no catalogue number)
Chris Abrahams - 'The Tender Hook Soundtrack'
2:02
(Austral perf and arr: Hugo Weaving's vaudevillian vocal with start on thundering snare drum, with banjo and plunger trumpet)
1430
CD Cut 3 - 'Bolshie'
Chris Abrahams
Assume APRA/AMCOS
Vitamin (pre-release copy, no catalogue number)
Chris Abrahams - 'The Tender Hook Soundtrack'
2:44
(Austral comp and perf: almost jaunty, spare solo piano theme joined by acoustic guitar)
Segue
1433
CD Cut 4 - 'The Tender Hook Theme'
Chris Abrahams
Assume APRA/AMCOS
Vitamin (pre-release copy, no catalogue number)
Chris Abrahams - 'The Tender Hook Soundtrack'
2:12
Austral comp and perf: Acoustic piano and guitar and synth keyboard play moody, scene-setting theme)
Segue
1435
CD Cut 9 - 'Long Abu Musa'
Amos Hoffman
Pub Not Spec
Magda MGD 053 (no Australian distributor
worldwide: www.magda.co.il )
Amos Hoffman - 'Na'ama'
4:15
(Rea Bar Nes starts with a solo marimba taxim, to be joined by Amos' on the oud for a composed piece)
RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Amos Hoffman - 'Na'ama' will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Tuesday 2 September
1440
CD Cut 1 - 'God is God'
Steve Earle
Exile on Jones St. Music ASCAP, admin by Primary Wave Music
Proper PRPCD 034 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: proper-records.co.uk )
Joan Baez - The Day After Tomorrow'
3:28
(Acoustic backing musicians from Nashville and Joan's mature, deeper voice, in song about doubt and faith)
RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Joan Baez - The Day After Tomorrow' will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Wednesday 3rd September
Segue
1444
CD Cut 3 - 'The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design'
Rodney Crowell
Sony/ATV Music/J Only Publishing ASCAP
In Australia through Shock CTX431 CD
Rodney Crowell - 'Sex and Gasoline'
4:25
(Chunking acoustic rhythm and soloing electric guitar in song in which Rodney speculates on being a female president and on the difference between evolution and 'intelligent design')
1449
CD Cut 20 - 'The Iris Label'
Chris Abrahams
Assume APRA/AMCOS
Vitamin
Chris Abrahams - 'The Tender Hook Soundtrack'
2:33
(Austral comp and perf: gentle theme for acoustic piano and synth strings)
Segue
1452
CD Cut 21 - 'Smollen'
Chris Abrahams
Assume APRA/AMCOS
Vitamin
Chris Abrahams - 'The Tender Hook Soundtrack'
2:36
(Austral comp and perf: Quiet solo piano briefly, then humorously ponderous band playing faux early 20th century tune with brushed drums, trumpet and banjo)
1456
CD Cut 7 - 'Great Desolations'
David Byrne
Pre-release copy, pub not spec
Pre-release copy Red Eye Records, distributed by Shock in Australia
David Byrne - 'Big Love: Hymnal'
Two and a half minute excerpt
(Electric and acoustic guitars and marimba in this pseudo hymn waltz)
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
