Career
He has recorded several solo albums, as well as collaborations with Melanie Oxley from the Sparklers. Abrahams has also been a session musician on albums for artists such as The Church, The Whitlams, Midnight Oil, Wendy Matthews, Skunkhour and Silverchair. Chris Abrahams produced and arranged the music for the Australian film "The Tender Hook" which was released in 2008.
In 2008, Chris Abraham"s work on the film"s soundtrack was nominated for the "Best Original Music Score" American Film Institute Award.
Some of Abrahams music is experimental in nature—The Necks are an improvisational trio, and Abraham"s performance at the Room40 Tenth Anniversary in London was labelled "ambient", "free-jazz" and "industrial noise" by (United Kingdom) Financial Times reviewer, Mike Hobart. Chris Reid from RealTime Arts Magazine wrote of his German Studies collaboration with Clare Cooper, an organiser of the NOWnow Festival who played the Chinese zither on the album, that "it represents an extensive investigation into the endless range of sounds that can be created by combining the venerable DX7 synthesiser and the even more venerable Chinese zither, the guzheng a deep exploration of musical language".
Pedal (Staubgold STAUBGOLD83, 2008) with Simon James Phillips Oceanic Feeling Like (Room40 RM420, 2008) with Mike Cooper German Studies (Split Records, Splitrec CD19, 2009) with Clare Cooper Hammeriver (Mikroton Recordings mikroton cd 8, 2010) with Hammeriver: Clare Cooper / Chris Abrahams / Christof Kurzmann / Tobias Delius / Clayton Thomas / Werner Dafeldecker / Tony Buck None Of Them Would Remember lieutenant That Way (Mikroton Recordings mikroton cd 13, 2012) with Lucio Capece We Who Had Left (Mikroton Recordings mikroton cd 19, 2012) with Alessandro Bosetti Raft of the meadows (Number Business Records, 2014) with Mike Majkowski (b) and James Waples (dr). Trace (First Rate (at Lloyd's) maslakh, 2014) with Mike Cooper.