Chris Abrahams Solo + Triosk

It’s many years since Chris Abrahams performed for us and we’re very pleased to be able to present a solo set from him as part of a double bill with Triosk.

One of the most distinctive keyboardists Australia has produced, Chris Abrahams is perhaps best known for playing with The Necks – one of the great cult bands of Australia. Currently he performs and composes with Melanie Oxley and the Hunting Party, and is one of Sydney’s most in-demand session players, having appeared on over 50 albums He has released three highly acclaimed solo piano albums.

John Clare wrote of his 2005 Jazz/Now performance: Chris played mostly in staccato or in sustained tremolo, in order to keep the overtones ringing. These vibrations threatened to form a shape of their own… At their most graphic, they became a sheet—glassy and ringing—in the treble. One device was to keep the air buzzing for a long stretch and then suddenly flower out along the keyboard pianistically. Melodies emerged from the thronging textures, slowly changed, and disappeared. And much more. Fantastic.

Triosk is essentially a piano trio as original as the Necks [and their music] ... is amazingly beautiful, also menacing, powerful, eerie, haunting, euphoric. These musicians are part of a vividly talented young network. They have many friends, yet there is sometimes a sweet loneliness as of empty autumn streets – John Clare.

... A compelling glimpse of what jazz in the new millennium can become… Triosk show how jazz, electronica and techno are collapsing at their respective margins – Stuart Nicholson, The Observer (UK).

Last year’s 1+3+1 collaboration with Jan Jelinek blended questing texture and copper-bottomed musicality with bewitching assurance. And Moment Returns is even better… a fascinating record – Chris Sharp, The Wire (UK)