Chris's Session - Sep 2026
We explored musical lineage and bifurcation, early‑career love turning into later‑career disappointment, and the struggle of trying (and failing) to pass our favourite albums on to family.
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This post-quake, Christchurch band push analogue synths and found sounds to the extreme.
The original Les Baxter was an innovator of two forms of easy listening lounge music: exotica and space age pop. A fair jazz pianist, Baxter’s real strengths were as an arranger.
In the late 1940s, he started bringing exotic, percussion-heavy instrumentation together with lush, melodic strings and elements of big band swing.
We explored musical lineage and bifurcation, early‑career love turning into later‑career disappointment, and the struggle of trying (and failing) to pass our favourite albums on to family.
commentsWe shared a night of food and drink (and related music) with some special guests all the way from Australia.
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