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Long awaited re-issues of 3 (so far) incredible albums that MELANIE OXLEY & CHRIS ABRAHAMS made 20 years ago (or thereabouts)….and these timeless & incredible series of albums – like all good things – have aged very well indeed!
Blood Oranges is the fifth CD of sophisticated, sometimes jazz-tinted pop from her and pianist Chris Abrahams, a third of ambient jazz-trippers the Necks and one of the country’s most ubiquitous session players.
The pair trace their friendship back further still, to a Sunday jam session at a tiny inner-Sydney pub called the Palace. About ’85, they were both occasional accomplices of Paris Green, a loose combo of blues and rock players revolving around local underground identity Louis Tillett.
Having made his name as a soundtrack composer, Abrahams moved on in both directions at once with the Necks.
“Blood Oranges is very poppy,” Melanie says. “It’s quite a different album to Jerusalem Bay, and it was recorded differently. That one was much more organic and live. With Blood Oranges, Chris did a lot of work before we went into the studio, quite a lot of programming, then we got Hamish Stuart (drums) and Jonathan Zwartz (bass) to come in for a day.” Talk about a ‘dream team’!
